{"id":14227,"date":"2014-08-09T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=14227"},"modified":"2020-06-10T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T01:01:29","slug":"richard-chase","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=14227","title":{"rendered":"RICHARD CHASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>\nSeries 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/Personnel<strong><br \/>\nSeries 22: Community, Guests, and Visitors<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h2>Richard Chase<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Richard Chase: Itinerate Recreation Leader, 1936.<br \/>\nCounselor 1943-1944? 1948-1949?<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Visitor, Folklorist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Richard Chase, folk tales, recreation, interview, games, music, Jack Tales, folk lore, Glyn Morris, folklorist, children&#8217;s literature,\u00a0 writers,\u00a0 puppetry, Punch and Judy, theater, dance, White Top Folk Festival, folklife,<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Richard Chase, a well-known folklorist, had a long-running association with Pine Mountain Settlement School. Through the years he came to the School as a visitor. During the 1940s he was also employed as a recreation leader and counselor.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama, on February 15, 1904. To further his education, he left Alabama following high school to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch&#8217;s relationship with PMSS was the connection that first put him in touch with Pine Mountain Settlement School. He graduated from Antioch College in 1929.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=9327\">Laurel House I<\/a> burned in 1939 some of the staff left the School. This created an acute need for an additional student counselor, leading to Richard Chase&#8217;s hiring as a counselor.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=1015\">Glyn Morris<\/a>, PMSS Director at the time, said that Chase&#8217;s work would make it possible for &#8220;staff members to know more about their students&#8230; [H]e will coordinate for\u00a0each student all the possibilities for his development&#8221; at the School.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chase also worked closely with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_of_the_Southern_Mountains#:~:text=Formally%20organized%20as%20the%20Conference,close%20relationship%20with%20Berea%20College.\">Conference of Southern Mountain Workers<\/a>. As a representative of the Institute of Folk Music, University of North Carolina, he was chosen as the itinerant recreation leader for the Conference in 1936. He succeeded <strong>Frank H. Smith<\/strong>, a noted folk dance instructor, in this role. He was funded by the <strong>Kappa Delta Phi Sorority<\/strong> for six months. [<span class=\"monotitle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Mountain Life &amp; Work<\/i>,\u00a0January\u00a01936, vol. 11 no. 4, p. 25.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Richard Chase is well-known for his publications, particularly those that represent regional folktales of the Appalachians. As a folklorist he had a large repertoire of folk tales and games, especially Appalachian folk games, many of which he learned in the Pine Mountain valley. His books include <i>Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales<\/i>\u00a0(1948),\u00a0<i>Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games\u00a0<\/i>(1949) and, his most famous work, <i><a title=\"Jack tales\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_tales\">The Jack Tales<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>One of Chase&#8217;s earliest visits to the School is recorded by a student in the November <a title=\"PINE CONE INDEX\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=1636\">1939\u00a0<\/a><em><strong><a title=\"PINE CONE INDEX\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=1636\">Pine Cone<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;SAGAMAN&#8221; CHASE VISITS SCHOOL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to tell you about Mr. Ward, the man to whom we owe most of these old tales, and end up by whirlying off one myself,&#8221; said Richard Chase to the audience as he stood before them after the school movie recently.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Mr. and Mrs. Chase visited Pine Mountain on one of their tours over the southern states, and finding it a very pleasant place, decided to remain a few days.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">American Magazine<\/span> described Mr. Chase among it &#8216;Interesting People&#8217;\u00a0as the &#8220;Sagaman&#8221; saying, &#8220;In olden days knights and ladies counted on traveling troubadours for their news and entertainment, instead of on newspapers, magazines, and movies. These minstrels played new songs, and told ancient folk tales as well, then went on their way with a purse full of gold. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Today, 500 years later, just such a troubadour, Richard Chase, wanders through the South. Mountain folks call him a sagaman, because he recites the old sagas which have been handed down from generation to generation, but never recorded in print. He plays the old mountain songs, too, and calls the figures for the country dances &#8212; &#8220;Nancy&#8217;s Fancy,&#8221; the &#8220;Grapevine Swing,&#8221; and the &#8220;Ocean Wave.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Instead of a palfrey, Chase rides in an old jalopy, and he plays on a homemade bamboo pipe instead of a lute. Sitting on a hillside with his back to a birch Chase holds a whole village spell-bound, then moves on his way. Children often follow him, Pied-Piper-like, to the neighboring town. He still has one ancient troubadour trick &#8212; slaps white horses for luck.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another of Richard Chase&#8217;s visit to PMSS was described in this article, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=10518\">October 1948 issue of Pine Cone<\/a> (pages 12-13):<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>An Interview with Richard Chase<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had on our campus recently a very distinguished author of folk tales and mountain lore. To most people who read his books without any understanding of mountain folk with their dialogue and their sense of humor, h e must seem like quite a spinner of tall tales. However, to the students, he\u2019s just Mr. Chase, always ready with a smile and a yarn for anyone interested, and his visits here are looked forward to by students and staff alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the fact that he is very good at writing and telling folk stories, little is known of his background by most of us here, but this is the way Mr. Chase tells it\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThough my family are all from New England,\u201d he says, and from his deep-South drawl, you know what is coming next, \u201cI\u2019m from the South. Yep, I was born in Alabama in 1904, lived there quite a while, but was raised mostly in Tennessee.\u201d A question was asked, \u201cWhere did you go to school?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSchool? Well, let\u2019s see. Whole lot of \u2018em, no need in telling them all, but I did go to an old-fashioned Latin and Greek prep school my family saw fit to send me to.\u201d \u201cSee that you take that down,\u201d he says behind his hand. \u201cSounds impressive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This done, another question comes up. \u201cTell us, Mr. Chase, just what started you on your writing career.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And from here on the story is solely Mr. Chase\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell,\u201d he started out, \u201cThis is sort of an anniversary for me, for twenty-four years ago was the first time I ever visited Pine Mt. Quite different then, too, but the songs and dances are just about the same. You know those songs and dances were the cause of my becoming interested in folk arts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow did you ever happen to bring Mr. Punch into your career, Mr. Chase?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMr. Punch is not part of my work,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s just a sideshow, a kind of tradition. You see, my work is like a three-ring circus, singing songs, helping people with dances and telling tales. But for twenty years I\u2019ve wanted to edit songs, not those new versions, but real songs, as I hear them from the old folk, back in places like this.\u201d \u201cYep,\u201d he said, \u201cYou might say that was my life\u2019s ambition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI hear you\u2019re going to write another book, Mr. Chase. What\u2019s it going to be about?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell, besides the \u2018Grandfather Tales\u2019 and the \u2018Jack Tales,\u2019 Houghton-Mifflin Co. has ordered me to write my fourth book, on folk-dancing. I\u2019d like to write a mummer\u2019s play, too, for kids like these here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd what does Pine Mt. mean to you, Mr. Chase?\u201d I asked as he prepared to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell now,\u201d he said, \u201cYou\u2019ve hit on a subject I could talk on for some time, more time, in fact, than I have right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so we said goodbye to Richard Chase and Mr. Punch, until we see them again on their next visit to Pine Mountain in Dec.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitty<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Senior<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SEE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=15354\"><strong>MUSIC GUIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table id=\"table1\" style=\"height: 1525px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"472\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#EDDDBC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#999966\" width=\"100%\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #331400; font-family: Castellar; font-size: 300%;\">Richard Chase<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#331400\" width=\"90%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Title<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Richard Chase<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Identifier<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #666666;\">Permalink:<\/strong><span style=\"color: #666666;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"sample-permalink\" style=\"color: #666666;\" tabindex=\"-1\">http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=14227<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Creator<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Alt. Creator<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Ann Angel Bissell ; Helen Hayes Wykle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Subject Keyword<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Richard Chase ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; education ; Appalachian music ; Appalachian dance ;\u00a0Progressives ; folklorist ; folklore ; Council of the Southern Mountains ; Conference of the Council of the Southern Mountains ; Mountain Life and Work ; Jack Tales ; folk tales ; tales ; recreation ; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ;\u00a0Kappa Delta Phi Sorority<span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Subject LCSH<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Chase, Richard,\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0February 15, 1904 \u2013 February 1988.<br \/>\nSmith, Frank H.<br \/>\nPine Mountain Settlement School &#8212; History.<br \/>\nRural schools &#8212; Appalachian Region, Southern.<br \/>\nRural schools &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; History.<br \/>\nSchools &#8212; Appalachian Region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Date original<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Date digital<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">2007-06-26 ; 2014-08-08 ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Publisher<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Contributor<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">\u00a0n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Type<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Collection ; text ; image ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Format<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">books; correspondence ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Source<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Series 09: Personnel\/Staff ; Series 22: Community, Guests and Visitors ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Language<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Relation<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">\u00a0Is related to: Series 09: Staff\/Personnel ; Series 22: Community, Guests, and Visitors ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Coverage<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">1936-1988; Harlan County, Kentucky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Rights<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Donor<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Description<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Core documents, correspondence, writing, and papers of Richard Chase held at Pine Mountain Settlement School.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Acquisition<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">n\/d ; 1930s and early 1940s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Citation<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Identification of Item],\u201d [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Processed by<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Helen Wykle ; Ann Angel Bissell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Last updated<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">2007-07-12 hhw ; 2014-08-09 hhw ; 2016-07-23 aae ;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Historical Context<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Biography<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\">Richard Chase\u00a0(February 15, 1904 \u2013 February 1988), an\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">American<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Folklorist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folklorist\">folklorist<\/a>, was an authority on English-American folklore. He was born near\u00a0<a title=\"Huntsville, Alabama\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntsville,_Alabama\">Huntsville, Alabama<\/a>, and graduated from\u00a0<a title=\"Antioch College\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antioch_College\">Antioch College<\/a>\u00a0in 1929.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\">Bibliography<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"80%\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChase, Richard.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=17947\">Staff Directory 1913 &#8211; present.<\/a> Series 09: Staff\/Personnel and\u00a0Series 22: Community, Guests, and Visitors. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Internet resource.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ferrum (VA) College in Historic Virginia. \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ferrum.edu\">http:\/\/www2.ferrum.edu<\/a>] accessed 2016-07-22. Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span class=\"monotitle\"><i>&#8216;<\/i>What They Are Doing.&#8221;<i> Mountain Life &amp; Work,<\/i>\u00a0January\u00a01936. vol. 11 no. 4, p. 25. [<a href=\"http:\/\/kdl.kyvl.org\/catalog\/xt77h41jhh12_26?\">http:\/\/kdl.kyvl.org\/catalog\/xt77h41jhh12_26?<\/a>] Accessed 2016-07-23. Internet resource.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chase compiled and edited several books of\u00a0<a title=\"Folktales\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folktales\">folktales<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Folk game (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Folk_game&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">folk games<\/a>\u00a0(especially\u00a0<a title=\"Appalachia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\">Appalachian<\/a>), including Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales\u00a0(1948),\u00a0Hullabaloo, Other Singing Folk Games (1949) and\u00a0<a title=\"Jack tales\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_tales\">The Jack Tales<\/a>. [Wikipedia.com]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"20%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=157\">BIOGRAPHY &#8211; A-Z<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine Mountain Settlement School Series 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/Personnel Series 22: Community, Guests, and Visitors Richard Chase Richard Chase: Itinerate Recreation Leader, 1936. Counselor 1943-1944? 1948-1949? 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