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• Childbirth--Folklore.
• Horton, Laurel.
• Midwifery.
• Midwives.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Laurel Horton of Seneca, S.C., is a white folklorist, quilt researcher, lecturer, and author. She received her master's degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979.

Field recordings made by Laurel Horton, a white folklorist, circa 1975 that contain an oral history interview and a radio music program called "Tar Heel Voices," likely broadcast from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student-run radio station WCAR. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio and audiocassette. The interview is with an unnamed elderly white woman who discusses midwifery and folk remedies and sings the ballad "Lady Margaret." No other information, such as the name of the interviewee or location of the interview, is available. Supporting documentation accompanying the recordings reside in the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025.

• Audiocassette (FS-1217)
• Audiotape (FT-849)
• Field Notes, Folder 156, Folder 468, Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025