Crazy, Creative, Clumsy County Cooking: The Cooking Traditions of The Sklany Family
- Creator
- Spaid, Heather Leigh
- Sklany, Vincent
- Graves, Elizabeth
- Dalton, Bernadette Sklany
- Spaid, Therese
Crazy, Creative, Clumsy County Cooking: The Cooking Traditions of The Sklany Family
In this project, Heather Leigh Spaid interviewed various members of her family to learn about their cooking traditions. She was interested in where and how her relatives learned to cook and through these interviews, realized how important her grandmother’s influence was in everybody’s life and cooking education. This interview is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
- Creator
- Spaid, Heather Leigh
- Sklany, Vincent
- Graves, Elizabeth
- Dalton, Bernadette Sklany
- Spaid, Therese