| Janet Simonds, TFS
Treasurer and Office Secretary, chaired a joint session with the
East Texas
Historical Association at their fall meeting in Nacogdoches on
September 16, 2010. The session was entitled "Folklore: A Catalog of
our Culture." The session was very well received. There were about
25 people in the audience. TFS members
Jack Duncan (McKinney), Sue Friday (Charlotte, NC),
and Peggy Redshaw (Sherman), presented
papers. Jack's paper was entitled "Larger than Life, Even in Death;"
Sue's paper was "The Alford Farm: Rescuing a Dogtrot and Remembering
a Frontier Homestead;" and Peggy gave a paper on "The 1918 Flu
Strikes Sherman, Texas." |
