Sarah Gertrude Knott (1895
Kevil, Kentucky
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– ) was an American folklorist, and folk festival organizer.
Early life
Sarah Gertrude Knott was born in 1895 in
Kevil, Kentucky
Kevil is a List of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Ballard County, Kentucky, Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 595 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, It is part of the Paducah micropolitan area ...
. She created the National Folk Festival Association in 1933 and founded the
National Folk Festival, first held in
St Louis
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
, in 1934.
Works
"The National Folk Festival after Twelve Years" ''California Folklore Quarterly'', Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), pp. 83-93
Further reading
* Michael Ann Williams. ''Staging tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
References
External links
Interview with Sarah Gertrude Knott, 1895-1984 FA Oral Histories. Paper 428.
Knott, Sarah Gertrude, 1895-1984 ''Western Kentucky University''
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1895 births
1984 deaths