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TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY
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The Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting was held April 20-22, 2000 in Nacogdoches, Texas at the Hotel Fredonia
All sessions were held in Convention Center B, Fredonia Hotel.Thursday, April 20, 2000
2:00-7:00 p.m., Registration, Foyer, Fredonia Hotel, NacogdochesFriday, April 21
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Registration, Foyer, Fredonia Hotel, Nacogdoches|
Francis B. Vick (Dallas), Chair Welcome: TFS President-Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM) Lucy Fischer West (El Paso), "Folklore by Osmosis: Three Decades with John O." Thad Sitton (Austin), "Now You Hear My Horn: Uses of the Blowing Horn in the Southern Big Woods Lifeway" Larry Warburton (Alice), "Violence in the Diamond of Texas" |
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Rollo Newsom (San Marcos), Chair Archie P. McDonald (Nacogdoches), "The Making of a Househusband" Linda Majors Clark (Georgetown), "Grampa's Passion: Baseball" Dallas Cothrum (Tyler), "Just Pain Mean: Louis T. Wigfall" |
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Phyllis Bridges (Denton), Chair Jerry Turner (Mt. Calm), "The Great Imposter Comes to Texas" Becky Matthews (San Antonio), "E-lore, or Even if You Don't Read This Please Forward it to Everyone You Know" Ty Cashion (Huntsville), "Seeing Red over Varsity Blues" |
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Peggy A. Redshaw (Sherman), Chair James Winfrey (Houston), "The Cottonseed Oil Mill" Mary Joe Clendenin (Stephenville), "Joe Fitzgerald, Nurseryman and Philosopher" Nita Thurman (Dallas), "Texas Tombstone Inscriptions" |
Saturday, April 22
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Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon), Chair Jean Schnitz (Boerne), "New and Recycled Songs about Texas" Jack Duncan (McKinney)& Joy J. Burwell (Dayton), "Pioneer Angel: Uncle Gus Wilson" Business Meeting Presiding: Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM) Ken Untiedt (Lubbock)& Lee Haile (Bandera), "Robert Earl Keen: Texas Folk Traditions in Popular Music" |