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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, January 2021

Encoded by: Anne Wells, January 2021

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• Campbell, Will D.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Children's songs--North Carolina.
• Children--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Esthimer, Steven William, 1951-
• Games--North Carolina.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--Songs and music.
• Rhyming games--North Carolina.
• Songs, English--North Carolina.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025
• Steven William Esthimer, "Religious symbols : a critical review of Paul Tillich's theory" (1973), North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library), C378 UO26 1973.

Steven William Esthimer of Chapel Hill, N.C., is a white retired teacher and musician. Esthimer taught at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. for 36 years. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973. Esthimer wrote an honors essay for the Department of Religion titled "Religious Symbols: A Critical Review of Paul Tillich's Theory" (1973). He is a longtime member of When Cousins Marry, a rock, country, and blues band based in Chapel Hill, N.C. and plays the banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and cornet.

Audio recordings created and compiled by Steven William Esthimer, a white teacher and musician, when he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel. Materials consist of an audio recording, 1972, of children performing children's rhymes and songs that they used regularly at their school, Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C.; an audio recording, 1972, of songs composed and performed by Rev. Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013), a white Baptist minister and civil rights activist from Mississippi, at the Carolina Symposium at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a recording, undated, of Steven William Esthimer's grandfather performing tunes and ballads from Virginia. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including collection cover sheets prepared by former library staff and a handwritten note about the collector and songs.

• Audiotape (FT-1753, FT-1816, FT-6271)
• Field Notes (Folders 648, 660, 939), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025