The Stephens Family Apple Butter Festival: The Apple Butter of the Past, Present and Future
Creator
Venteicher-Shulman, Tessica
Ball, Sally
Marrow, Timothy Allen
Marrow, Jessica Kay
Cutchin, Sean
In this project Tessica Venteicer-Shulman interviewed Sally Ball, Timothy Allen Marrow, Jessica Kay Marrow, and Sean Cutchin about the annual Stephens Family Apple Butter Festival. During the interview, the discussions included descriptions of the process of making it, the equipment needed, the canning process after the butter was made, and both the traditional and familial aspects of making apple butter. 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.