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TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY
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Thursday, April 1, 1999
2:00-6:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby, Holiday Inn, MidlandFriday, April 2
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby, Holiday Inn, Midland|
Karen Haile (Bandera), Chair Carolyn Norgaard (Dallas), "Women A-Horseback, Side or Astride" Kenneth Davis (Lubbock), "Extracts, Spices, and Soothing Ointments: Peddlers in Central Texas in the Thirties and Forties" Tony Clark (Georgetown), "History or Hearsay: Some Dubious Assertions about Bat Masterson and Bob Ford" |
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John O. West (El Paso), Chair Wildwood Dean Price (Bonham), "Survival Value in Fannin County, Texas: Then and Now" Faye Leeper (Irving), "Technology and Fast Foods Can Speed up the Aging Process" Julia Kumor Hambric (El Paso), "La Charreada: The Traditions and Folklore of the Mexican Rodeo" |
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Linda Clark (Georgetown), Chair Rollo Newsom (Austin), "The Oatmeal Festival: Folkways, Inventedways and Fakeways" George Ewing (Abilene), "Mother's Model T" Mildred Sentell (Snyder), "Funeral Homes in Small West Texas Towns in the Early Part of the Century" |
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Jim Byrd (Commerce), Chair James Ward Lee (Denton), "Talking Fancy" Patrick Dearen (Midland), "Somewhere Over the Pecos: A Patterson Oz" Elmer Kelton (San Angelo), "Paul Patterson: Teacher, Mentor, Friend" |
Saturday, April 3
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Lee Haile (Bandera), Chair Phyllis Bridges (Denton), "La Quinceanera: Hispanic Folk Custom" Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria), "Ghosts of Goliad" Business Meeting Presiding: Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon) Joyce Roach (Keller), "Baby Lore: The Why and Wherefore of It" Hazel Abernethy (Nacogdoches), "Grandmother Lore: The Deep and Wide of It" "The High, Low and More of it," Audience participation |