Highlander Festival: Preservation of a Folk Tradition
Creator
McReynolds, Phillip Scott
Hutcheson, Jack R.
Hutcheson, Charlene
Raisbeck, Elberta McInnis
In this project Phillip Scott McReynolds interviewed Charlene Hutcheson, a founding member of The Scottish Foundation for the Virginia Highlands; Jack R. Hutcheson; and Elberta McInnis Raisbeck, whose husband was a contributor to the athletics portion of the festival. During the interview, the three were asked several questions to find information about Highlander game traditions, how the games might influence education at Radford University, what musical traditions are experienced at the festival, and what they think the future of the Highlander Festival is. 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.