Billy Porterfied Archives Go To Texas State University

Brad Rollins in the San Marcos Mercury filed a report Texas State acquires Billy Porterfield archives.

The Rollins report begins:  "Billy Porterfield, the legendary Texas journalist and award-winning author of several books, has donated his major archive to the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University.

Born in 1932 in East Texas, Porterfield grew up the son of an itinerant oilfield worker and attended dozens of schools before graduating from Woodsboro High School in 1950. His nomadic childhood informed his work, much of which takes place on the road, as well as his approach to gathering ideas for newspaper columns. Curiosity, a notepad, a map, and a full tank of gas were the tools of his trade."

Porterfield's book include include LBJ Country (1965), A Loose Herd of Texans (1978), Texas Rhapsody: Memories of a Native Son (1981), The Greatest Honky-Tonks in Texas (1983), and Diddy Waw Diddy: The Passage of an American Son (1994).  His journalism spread wide.  All of this and more summed up in 35 boxes.  Read more about it at

http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12005  and at

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/newsmakers-texas-states-gets-billy-porterfield-archives-lukas-214826.html