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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Susan Sink Collection on Carteret County Folklore #20253, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquisitions information unknown (Acc. 103455).

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Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2018

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2018

Archival processing of the Susan Sink Collection on Carteret County Folklore was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Carteret County (N.C.)--Folklore.
• Carteret County (N.C.)--History.
• Folk songs, English--North Carolina.
• Folklore--North Carolina--Carteret County.
• Indians of North America--North Carolina--Folklore.
• Indians of North America--North Carolina--History.
• Pond, Eugene, 1926-1983.
• Sea songs--North Carolina.
• Sink, Susan.

Little is known about Susan Sink. She is most likely the author of Traditional crafts and craftsmanship in America: a selected bibliography (1983, American Folklife Center), as well as the interviewer for select Southern Oral History Program audio interviews made in 1978 ( #04007H, Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series H: Piedmont Industrialization).

The Susan Sink Collection on Carteret County Folklore consists of open reel audio recordings of a lecture on Carteret County, N.C. history and folklore by Eugene Pond, mayor of Beaufort, N.C. The lecture, titled "Carteret County Folklore: Fact and Fiction", features stories and songs pertaining to American Indian, colonial, and later settlements in Carteret County, N.C., as well as tales and songs about the county's maritime history. It is unclear when and where the lecture took place. The collection also includes a tape log that contains notes on the stories and songs performed by Eugene Pond on the recordings, such as "The Little Mohee", "The Ship That Never Returned", "The Battleship of Maine", and "When the Booze Yacht Went Ashore", among other songs.

• Audiotapes (FT-834-835)