Stories
Folklore
The version a place actually tells, which may disagree with the polished myth.
It meets oral history, anthropology, and the small-town stories that never asked to be published.
Collectors of folklore have to decide when collecting becomes taking.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside folklore reads “the version a place actually tells.” It tends to meet oral history, mythology, and small towns.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside folklore: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.