Summary
This collection includes fieldwork materials collected by folklorist Dorothy Howard and
her students at Frostburg State University (circa 1940-1990), donated by Dr. Howard to the
Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) for inclusion on the Maryland Folklife Archives.
Collection includes personal correspondence, publications (drafts and final copies
authored by Howard), and materials on play-party songs, children’s folklore, herblore, and
other folklife documented in Mountain Maryland. Dr. Howard spent the bulk of her career
teaching at Frostburg State University (1944-1977) documenting the customs and histories
of mountain communities of Western Maryland. This collection is comprised of the
fieldwork materials collected during that time.
