A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. â Americaâs first black astronaut, Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr., finally got full honors Friday on the 50th anniversary of his death. Several hundred people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to commemorate Lawrence, who almost certainly would have gone on to fly in space had he not died in a plane crash on Dec. 8, 1967.