Lisa Gabbert

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical profession is a fertile arena for folklore that serves to address these topics among physicians. In The Medical Carnivalesque, Lisa Gabbert argues that this extraordinarily difficult work context has led to the development of an occupational corpus of folklore, backstage talk, and humor that she calls the medical...

Explains how maple syrup is made and describes some of the activities that mark sugaring season, such as parades, hay rides, and horse-drawn sleighs.