American wit and humor -- Appalachian Region.

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Twenty-two reel-to-reel audio recordings of jokes, stories, and tales told by participants in the 1987 Appalachian Humor Festival held at Berea College in 1983. The festival was one of several such events promoted by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler as a means of gathering material to include in books about Appalachia that they published.

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Eleven cassette audio recordings of jokes, stories, and tales told by participants in the 1987 Appalachian Humor Festival held at Berea College in 1987. The festival was one of several such events promoted by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler as a means of gathering material to include in books about Appalachia that they published.

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Twenty-Four reel-to-reel audio recordings of jokes, stories, and tales told by participants in the 1990 Appalachian Humor Festival held at Berea College in 1990. The festival was one of several such events promoted by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler as a means of gathering material to include in books about Appalachia that they published.

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Fifteen reel-to-reel audio recordings of jokes, stories, and tales told by participants in the 1993 Appalachian Humor Festival held at Berea College July 16 and 17, 1993. The festival was one of several such events promoted by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler as a means of gathering material to include in books about Appalachian that they published.

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Abstract Loyal Jones (1928-) grew up on a farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville, North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English from the University of North Carolina in 1957. He was the first Director of the Berea College Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) serving in that capacity from 1970 to 1993. Jones served in the United States Army and was a public...