TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

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• Session 1: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
  

  John Lightfoot (Lake Jackson), Chair Kenneth Davis (Lubbock), "The St. Joseph's Sausage Festival at Slaton, Texas: Communal Folk Gathering" Mike Cox (Austin), "This story has no lede (cq)!" Sylvia Grider (College Station), "Battles as Creation Epics: A Comparison of Texas' Alamo and Scotland's Culloden" Mary Harris (Hobbs, New Mexico), "Hawklore"

• Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon
  

  R.G. Dean (Nacogdoches), Chair Tom Breedlove (Lagrange), "Modern Epitaphs in Pictures and Words" L. Patrick Hughes (Austin), "Cemetery Crawling in the State Capitol: Austin's Historic Cemeteries" David LaRo (San Antonio), "Life and Death in Old Bexar" Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria), "Buried in Texas Any and Every Which Way"

  12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon, Flag Room, Criminal Justice Center
  
  
• Session 3: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Joe Moore (Wimberley), Chair Silva Boze Brown (Commerce), "Silva by Silva: A Life in Texas, 1902-1997" Jerry Nobles (Kirbyville), "Cow Pies and Politics" Pat Reese (Fort Worth), "Drought, Cut Worms, Sparrows and Little Green Sucking Lice" L.H. Warburton, Jr. (Alice), "Duval County -- The Mesquite Curtain"

• Session 4: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Rosemary Killam (Denton), Chair Rhett Rushing (Blumington, Indiana), "Catfishing: More Fib Than Fish" Charles B. Martin (Denton), "Dancing Before the Altar: The Seises of Seville's Cathedral" Dick Holland (Austin), "'It All Began the Day My Conscience Died': Cheatin' Songs from Prototype to Postmodern"

  Cash Bar 6:30 p.m., Lowman Student Center Ballroom
  Banquet 7:30 p.m., Lowman Student Center Ballroom
  Presiding:Margaret Waring (Comanche)
  Speaker:Leon C. Metz (El Paso) "Chasing Gunfighters Across the Southwest"
  Hootenanny (following banquet), Lowman Student Center Ballroom
  
  

  Saturday, March 29

• Session 5: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
  

  Jean Schnitz (Leon Springs), Chair George Ewing (Abilene), "Stick Cutting and Handling: An Ancient Folkway Lives on in Abilene" Peggy A. Redshaw (Sherman), "How Cloth Was Dyed During the Civil War in Washington County, Texas" John O. West (El Paso), "Elmer Kelton and Allen Bosworth: Two Texans Who Know the Paisanos"

  Business Meeting
  Presiding: Margaret Waring
  Closing Ceremony
  George Ewing (Abilene)
  
  President:
  
• Margaret Waring (Comanche)
  
  Vice-President:
  
• Rollo K. Newsom (Austin)
  
  Secretary-Editor:
  
• F.E. Abernethy (Nacogdoches)
  
  Treasurer:
  
• Carolyn Satterwhite (Nacogdoches)
  
  Directors:
  
• Mildred Sentell (Snyder) 1997
  
• B.W. Aston (Abilene) 1997
  
• Faye Leeper (Irving) 1998
  
• George Ewing (Abilene) 1999
  
  Councilors:
  
• R.G. Dean (Nacogdoches) 1997
  
• Georgia Caraway (Denton) 1997
  
• Ira Blanton (Alpine) 1999
  
• Tom Crum (Granbury) 1999
  
• W.C. Jameson (Conway, AR) 1999
  
  

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