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folk memory
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folk memory
n
the memory of past events as preserved in a community


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There are the inevitable folk memories of Deliverance here, but also hints of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and perhaps even Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills.
99, the attractions of pebbly beaches, rotting piers and kiss-me-quick are rapidly fading folk memories for most mass trippers.
Visiting each of these sites today, Marchand shows the extent to which the one-time French presence has been obliterated by assimilation, marked by nothing more than a few folk memories, culinary traditions and bits of heavily restored architecture.
 
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