TFS members Sara and Wallace McKee, Bob Carr, John Wolf, Kenneth Davis, and Pat and Emerson Tucker, plus members of the Lubbock Westerners staffed the Texas Folklore Society information booth at the Symposium. Many thanks our members and to the Westerners for their help. TFS office secretary and treasurer Janet Simonds, also attended the event and assisted at the booth.

Several TFS members were participants in the Symposium events. Kenneth Davis and Len Ainsworth emceed Western Heritage History events, and Sylvia Mahoney emceed the Teddy Roosevelt presentation and was one of the group with the Great Western Cattle Trail Association Booth. Mary Margaret Campbell read a paper on George West, Rick Holstead read his poems, and Annalon Gilbreath told her stories.

Washtub Jerry and Devon Dawson entertain at the awards banquet

Sara McKee, Kenneth Davis, and Wallace McKee

Sandy Fortenberry and Kenneth Davis

John Wolf, Janet Simonds, Kenneth Davis, and Sylvia Mahoney

New member Chaz Pilley of New Mexico

Sylvia Mahoney emceed a panel which discussed how the Dakota years influenced Teddy Roosevelt's historical legacy concerning women's rights, nature, conservation, politics, government, and war.

The TR panel included Dr. Richard Slatta (l.) of North Carolina State University and Darrell Dorgan (r.), executive director of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Sylvia Mahoney and Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell

Sylvia Mahoney with the Great Western Cattle Trail Association.

Impromptu rope tricks from one of the many entertainers