Folklore: Masters no. 11

Newspaper clippings from the Oregon Sunday Journal dated April 30, 1939 and May 5, 1939. Discussing the Newport Crab Festival which started in 1938, with discussions about the cost being fronted by the city dipping into the advertising funds and volunteer work by the fisherman in the city to invest into the towns industry and stimulate revinue in its earlier phases. The expected turnout for the event was estimated to be around 30,000 people. With the ceremony including the crowning of the court of queen and two princesses for the event.

Newspaper clippings from an unknown source, with the written inscription dating June 2, 1939. Including the Lebanon Strawberry Festival and the mammoth shortcake estimated at two and a half tons. With mentions of filmstar Edward Everett Horton in attendance and pictured.

Newspaper clipping from the Baker City Herald, then Baker Democrat Herald,on May 5, 1939 Oregon State Conventions for Lions club in Salem, and the twenty foot featured cherry pie event to be held there. With former governor's Charles Sprague, and Earl Snell in attendance

Paul Bunyan Comes West By Ida Virginia Turney, James Stevens, Glenn Rounds twenty pages. No date identified. Various compiled tales and quotes from writings on Paul Bunyon and his journey west. With attention to certain mythos, including how Puget Sound was created, logging, California Rocky Mountains, and the formation of the Columbia Bay.

Bibliography on Paul Bunyan By Charles Oluf Olsen, forty-nine pages, dated September, 1938. A compiled timeline by Olsen on Pau Bunyan's life. Including key sections on his infancy, early childhood, into his adulthood. Varying locations including Quebec, St. Louis, Wisonsin, His tales or antics include the creation of the Three Sisters Mountain, the Great lakes, Puget Sound, Crater lake, and the Little Lakes. Notable figures include his wife, children; Jean and Teeny, Babe the blue ox. and members of his logging crew.

Varius tales of Paul Bunyan No author(s) or date(s) identified, seven pages. Mythos include the carving of the Columbia river, construction of Mt. Hood, lumber and logging, steamship

Paul Bunyan In Oregon No author(s) identified, six pages. Mythos on Niagara falls, With an additional copy

Folkways: Early Legends By Beatrice M. Carstairs, April 10, 1936. Two pages. Further Paul Bunyan legends. Folklore No author(s) or date(s) identified, two pages with an additional copy. Further legends on Paul Bunyan.

Paul in the Tap Room Newspaper clipping on Paul Bunyan and Babe the Ox mosaic, A WPA progect in 1937-1938 by Virginia Darce from a selected group of nationally recognized glass artists.