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TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY
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89th Annual Meeting of the Texas Folklore Society
El Paso, Texas - March 24-26, 2005
All Paper Sessions were held in the Camino Real Hotel
Program for the 89th Annual Meeting
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Thursday, March 24 1 to 7 p.m. Registration, North Mezzanine 2 to 6 p.m. Mission Trail Trolley Tour 8 p.m. Hootenanny, Hotel Ballroom Friday, March 25 8 to noon Registration, North Mezzanine 8:15 a.m. Welcome: TFS President J. Rhett Rushing (San Antonio) 8:30 to 1 p.m. Youth Craft Outing and Lunch, El Paso Community foundation: Pinatas and Sarapes Session 1 (8:30-10 a.m.) Chair L. Patrick Hughes (Austin) "Folksy, But Devout Bookkeeping," George Wilmeth Ewing (Abilene) "A Texas Folklorist: Celebrating William A. Owens' Life and Work," James Conrad (Commerce) "Our Own Saga: The TFS Family," Ken Untiedt (Nacogdoches) Session 2 (10:30 a.m.- noon) Chair Jerry E. Hunt (Arlington) "Terlingua Creek Tales," Jim and Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM) "My Brush with the James-Younger Gang - in the 21st Century," Tony Clark (Georgetown) "Billy the Kid's Wondrous Ride," Skip Clark (El Paso) Noon: Officer's Luncheon Youth Session (1:30-3 p.m.) Chairs Karen Haile (Tarpley) and Julia Hambric (El Paso) Ballet Folklorico Paso de Norte, performance directed by Rodolfo Hernandez (El Paso) "Las Cazuelas de mi Casa," Manuela Hernandez (El Paso) "Bolsas de Red: Origins of the Ixtle Woven Bags," Maria C. Reglen (El Paso) Session 4 (3:30-5 p.m.) Chair David LaRo (San Antonio) "The Evolution of a Family Epic," Donna C. Ingham (Spicewood) "A Most Unusual Upbringing," A.C. Sanders (El Paso) "Sharecropper's Daughter," Jean Flynn (San Antonio) Cash Bar: 6:30 p.m. Hotel Ballroom Banquet: 7:30 p.m. Hotel Ballroom Entertainment: Bob and Melody Burns (Hoot afterwards) Saturday, March 26 Session 5 (8:45-11.30 a.m.) Chair Elizabeth A. Duncan (McKinney) "Central Texas Canning Customs in the Thirties and Forties," Kenneth W. Davis (Lubbock) "What's it Take to Be a Texan? - A Texas Oral Narrative," Brie Whitmire (Richmond, VA) Business Meeting: President J. Rhett Rushing presiding "The State of State Folklore Organizations," TFS Secretary-Editor Ken Untiedt "Where the Grass is Green," Morgan R. Buckert (Goliad, TX and Albuquerque, NM) "The Church Softball League," Robert Flynn (San Antonio) Closing Ceremony: President J. Rhett Rushing Downtown Walking Tour 1 p.m. Led by Leon C. Metz |
President: J. Rhett Rushing (San Antonio)
Vice-President: Henry Wolff (Victoria)
Secretary-Editor: Kenneth L. Untiedt (Nacogdoches)
Treasurer: Heather Gotti (Cushing)
Councilor: Tom Crum (Granbury)
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