TFS Meeting Number 87

TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Eighty-Seventh Annual Meeting

The Eighty-Seventh Annual Meeting was held in Kerrville, Texas on April 17-19, 2003.
The meeting headquarters was the YO Ranch Hotel & Conference Center
All sessions and the banquet were in the Spanish Oak Room

Program of Eighty-Seventh Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 17, 2003

1:00-7:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby of YO Ranch Hotel

1:30 p.m., Walking tour of downtown Kerrville

8:00 p.m., Hootenanny in the Live Oak Room

Friday, April 18, 2003

8:00 a.m. - NOON, Registration, Lobby of YO Ranch Hotel

Session 1: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon), Chair
Joyce Gibson Roach (Keller), "A Tex-Mex Wedding"
Nita Thurman (Denton), "Sam Bass and the Mythmakers"
Jim Kelly (Brenham), "Walter Henry Burton's Ride from Bell County to Juarez, Mexico in 1888"
Gloria Duarte (San Angelo), "Religion, Superstition, and Remedies in the Maxican-American Culture"

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

Charles Rodenburger (Baird), Chair
Kenneth W. Davis (Lubbock), "The Lore of Retirement and Extended Care Facilities"
Veleda Boyd (Doss), "Coming Full Circle: The Remarkable Tale of the Lehmann Family"
Alicia Zavala Galvan (San Antonio), "Folklore of a San Antonio Midwife"
Henry Wolff (Victoria), "Tip to Tip: Legendary Longhorns"

12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon , Guadalupe Room 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Free Time for Lunch for Members and Guests

Session 3: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. - Special Plenary Session for the Young and the Young at Heart,

Tierney Untiedt (Lubbock), Chair
Cynthia Savage (Midland), "Folklore 101: An Introduction to Folklore and the Texas Folklore Society"
J.G. "Paw-paw" Pinkerton (Stamford, CT), "Storytelling: Sharing Who We Are and The Values We Hold"
Acayla and Sierra Haile (Tarpley), "Once Upon a Time...Storytelling Adventures of Acayla and Sierra Haile"
Lee Haile (Tarpley), "Let's Go Play: An Introduction to Folktoys"
F.E. Abernethy (Nacogdoches), "Folk Music"
Karen Reinartz Haile (Tarpley), "Folk Art...It's Everywhere"

Session 4: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Mary Mays (San Angelo), Chair
Donna Meletio (San Antonio), "Burning Brightly: The Easter Fire Celebration of Maternal Necessity"
Consuelo Samarippa (Austin), "The Passage of the Four: El Pasaje de los Cuarto de Escocia"
Lora B. Garrison (Utopia), "Pioneer Woman"
George Wilmeth Ewing (Abilene), "The -dence Question: Coinci- or Provi-?"

Cash bar:
Banquet 7:00 p.m., Spanish Oak Room
Presiding: Lora B. Garrison (Utopia)
Hootenanny, (following banquet) Live Oak Room

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Session 5: 8:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Margaret Waring (Comanche), Chair
John L. Davis (San Antonio), "Packaged Folklore: The Texas Folklife Festival -- Storysmithing and Shapeshifting"
Lou Ann Herda (Houston), "The Evolution of a Legend: The Headless Horseman of Texas;
or It May Not Be True, But It Makes a Good Story"

Business Meeting
Presiding: Lora B. Garrison (Utopia)

Peggy A. Redshaw (Sherman), "Folklore in the Novels of Jane Roberts Wood"
Rhett Rushing (San Antonio), "Variety Meats: Waste Not, Why Not?"

Closing Ceremony Lora B. Garrison (Utopia)
Officers:
President: Lora B. Garrison (Utopia)

Vice-President: Phyllis Bridges ( )

Secretary-Editor: F.E. Abernethy (Nacogdoches)

Treasurer: Heather Stumbaugh (Nacogdoches)

Councilor: Tom Crum (Granbury)

Directors:
Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM) 2003
Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria) 2003
Jerry Lincecum (Sherman) 2004
J. Rhett Rushing (San Antonio) 2004
Jean G. Schnitz (Boerne) 2005

Councilors:
Tom Breedlove (La Grange) 2003
Kenneth L. Untiedt (Lubbock) 2003
Cynthia Savage (Midland) 2004
Becky Matthews ( ) 2004
Lee Haile (Tarpley) 2005

Publishers:
Ron Chrisman (Denton)
Fran Vick (Dallas )

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