Google giant project to digitize vast libraries is going to UT.
Should be interesting. Will they do the Center for American History, i.e., the Texas history collection?
Friday, February 29, 2008
Texas to Save Jericho
Way back before the writers' strike, the new TV show "Jericho" aired and found a modest cult following, but the network wonks leaned toward cancellation and the strike bit off a few heads. The series disappeared. The angry mob assailed the castle. Jericho has now returned. Jerich is set in modern Kansas, just after a series of mysterious nuclear blasts have devasted the country.
The show's first new episode opens with the country now divided into two countries, east and west, Kansas is in the west. It seems the western Allied States of America is strangely off-beat and oppressive.
A reference to made that actually Texas is split off again, and Texas may save the country. Now that a nice turn. Keep watching.
ADDENDUM May 2008
The few, last episodes were followed. Ultimately our Kansas patriots saw the light found their "Allied United States" government vastly corrupt and began their rebellion. As the hero was jetting to independent Texas, he was attacked by AUS jets at the Texas border, but sure enough a couple of Texas jets appeared and shot down the enemy, thus assuring that rebellious freedom would ring west of the Mississippi. So ended "Jericho" as a television series.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/
The show's first new episode opens with the country now divided into two countries, east and west, Kansas is in the west. It seems the western Allied States of America is strangely off-beat and oppressive.
A reference to made that actually Texas is split off again, and Texas may save the country. Now that a nice turn. Keep watching.
ADDENDUM May 2008
The few, last episodes were followed. Ultimately our Kansas patriots saw the light found their "Allied United States" government vastly corrupt and began their rebellion. As the hero was jetting to independent Texas, he was attacked by AUS jets at the Texas border, but sure enough a couple of Texas jets appeared and shot down the enemy, thus assuring that rebellious freedom would ring west of the Mississippi. So ended "Jericho" as a television series.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/
Houston School Libraries Standards
Back in December we read Jennifer Radcliffe's article in the Houston Chronicle regarding the poor condition of many HISD school libraries in terms of their book stock, staffing, and facilities (when present). Folks wrote letters in support of school libraries. (It turns out that poor libraries equal poor achieving students. Golly, who'd guessed?)
http://texasparlor.blogspot.com/2007/12/chronicle-exposes-school-libraries.html
This February we've been blessed by learning that a high HISD official has described the state standards for school libraries as "Cadillac" standards. When such starkly inaccurate statements are made one wonders, is the person just ignorant, inveigling for bureaucratic purposes, or what?
If you want a fact sheet to the contrary from willstexana, just ask.
http://texasparlor.blogspot.com/2007/12/chronicle-exposes-school-libraries.html
This February we've been blessed by learning that a high HISD official has described the state standards for school libraries as "Cadillac" standards. When such starkly inaccurate statements are made one wonders, is the person just ignorant, inveigling for bureaucratic purposes, or what?
If you want a fact sheet to the contrary from willstexana, just ask.
Citizen Introduction to a Historical Marker via Harris County Historical Commission
"You, the Citizen Sponsor"
is a brief (about 7 minutes) PowerPoint introduction to folks who may wish to pursue getting a Texas Historical Marker through the Harris County Historical Commission.
"You, the Citizen Sponsor" is an electronically lightweight file and easily emailable. You can request a free email copy from willstexana@yahoo.com
is a brief (about 7 minutes) PowerPoint introduction to folks who may wish to pursue getting a Texas Historical Marker through the Harris County Historical Commission.
"You, the Citizen Sponsor" is an electronically lightweight file and easily emailable. You can request a free email copy from willstexana@yahoo.com
Houston Online History
Houston, Texas Online History
A Categorized Webliography of Houston Historical Interests Online:
A Starter Kit
By Will Howard
Back in the olden days, researching meant paper, maybe with a touch of film. Then came electricity.
Houston is such a large place with such a rich history that straping it down with a few websites is not a probable task. All organizations and institutions that provide a link list do so scantily. A couple of years ago the City of Houston Mayor formed a task force on Houston history. As a last minute thought, I was asked to compile a list of websites of interest. I did so and it was a rough list of about 150 sites. Occasionally, I tinker with it, and now it's over 300 sites, and still a bit rough and unbalanced. It does string out to about 30 pages.
I wonder how large it can get before the simple "list" format is no longer practical. But lists are wonderful. Image the difference in a library where you are restricted to ONLY using the catalog because the stacks are "restricted" to staff ony. Gee, the serendipituos learning that occurs when browsing a collection freely is remarkably rewarding. So browsing a simple list( as compared to being forced to search a database and retrieving only single hits without a content of the total) is usually quite wonderful. I suppose the interim stage is when the list become so long that the compiler begins categorizing the entries.
The list of "History Interest Groups" is interesting in itself.
However, if you'd like a copy just let me know.
However, if you'd like a copy just let me know.
It's a free electric monograph that I can email to you.
Texas Vampire Moans Intro
The Texas Vampire Moans
A Will's Texana Electric Monograph
The full bibliography is available free by emailing a request to willstexana@yahoo.com
The "Introduction" to the bibliography is below:
Introduction
With thanks to Texas A & M University Bibliographer Bill Page and Novelist Anne Rice, and a blood bank of librarians, TAMU Librarian Candace Benefiel, Dallas Public Librarian Rachel Howell, and Yale Librarian Eva Guggemons for allowing me to drain them of their vital, free-flowing information.
We could just point to our neighboring Creole and Cajun rich cultural mix in Louisiana where there is a stunningly high ratio of fictional vampire settings. But there may be even lurking foreign influences. J'arbre comme cadaver, by Léo Malet (Paris : Editions Sagesse: Librairie Tschann, 1937) a surreal work by the future major French detective novelist with a yen for America and Texas. It contains six poems, the first entitled “Texas” and another invoking a vampire’s street presence in Paris. The German comic book series “Pecos-Bill, der Held von Texas” [Pecos Bill, Hero of Texas] had as its 20th issue (among 60 others) the title Die Vampire der Goldstadt, [The Vampire of the City of Gold] (Hamburg: Mondial - Verl., 1954). But Bram’s behind it all.
The true progenitor of the Texas vampire genre begins with the modern master, if not the seminal source, Bram Stoker. Stoker’s original Dracula in 1897 included Quincey Morris, a mysterious, rich, young, cowboy Texan, a gentleman suitor of Mina, an Englishwoman caught in Dracula’s web. Morris and other suitors pursue them from England to Transylvania. There Morris stabs, quite literally with his bowie knife, the heart of Dracula, killing him even sans wooden or silver stake: “Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart” (see Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=35364&pageno=292
Quincey’s subsequent death from a previous fatal wound does not end the story. The gentlewoman takes her other, true love (the story’s narrator) and she bears a child. “It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey” (page 293).
Folklore begat The Texas Folklore Society. Among its many books, the TFS volume # 25 Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk (SMU 1953), includes the venerable Roy Bedichek’s “Folklore in Natural History” and he refers a number of times to the bloodsucking vampire bat, including (page 30) “Our own Cabeza de Vaca contributed his mite to a flourishing folklore by the tale of bloodsucking bats as "big as turtle doves…” In another TFS volume # 24 The Healer of Los Olmos: And Other Mexican Lore (SMU 1951) Soledad Perez recounts in “Mexican Folklore from Austin, Texas” (page 74) “A few believe she [La Llorona]is a vampire that sucks its victim’s blood” or “has the face of a bat.” TFS pushed the envelope further; T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore edited by Francis Edward Abernethy and Herbert C Arbuckle (Dallas: E-Heart Press, 1982) contained the article “The vampire in an age of technology” by Leslie M. Thompson.
All that remains to be found is an urban legend where the Vampire Jay Frank battles the Yaqui Crying Woman Maria Inman for their love-child Erwin Frank, a chupacabra variation, in order to install the rising dark star to control the world through Austin’s “Silicon Hills.” Indeed Erwin has already made reading Stoker’s Dracula virtually mandatory for UT freshmen http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/roundup/2006.html
Can we credit the modern revival to Anne O’Brien Rice?
As a New Orleans child, Anne had written a novella about Martians and other outlandish tales. Her mother died and her father was transferred to Richardson. She spent her last year at Richardson High School where she met her future husband, Dallas-born Stan Rice the late, noted poet and artist, and she began her college days at Texas Woman’s University and North Texas State University. The two young writers were consanguine in literature. They decamped to California. Her first novel Interview with the Vampire (1976), begun in San Francisco as a short-story in 1969, marked the initial volume of her “Vampire Chronicles” series filled with evocative longing, lusting and intrigue, although not itself set in Texas but New Orleans.
Her later Queen of the Damned (1988) contains a chapter, “The short happy life of Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang,” which Rice reports to Texas readers was informed by her brief Texas experience, “As I recall, the Queen of the Damned was the only novel in which I used my Texas experience. Baby Jenks the little biker novel comes from the area around Cedar Creek lake where I lived, and I get to describe the towns.” The chapter is strong with adolescent emotion, rejection, rebellion, and self-assertion. Jenks dies. But Rice lived through her adolescence and left with her Texan who with her and Browning might find themselves, lovingly “feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.” Baby Jenks and Dallas’ Fang Gang are more than nomenclatural adornment; surely they reflect some broken fragments of light on Rice’s own passage, though “through a glass darkly.”
In 2002 after husband Stan Rice’s death in New Orleans, she wrote “In 1973, when I wrote INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, my beautiful husband Stan was the inspiration for the vampire Lestat. He had Stan's long blond hair and blue eyes and feeling grief that inspired Lestat's charm and magnetism and mesmerizing movement,” (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/riceans/messnews7.html ).
Stan’s poems are streaked with surrealism, chunks of color and emotion, and bizarre commentaries on death. His own dead father was the subject of two poems “Don't Put Him In the Freezer" and "Dad is Dead," (The Radiance of Pigs, Knopf, 1999). While not suggestive of his total corpus of his poetry, portions evince nihilism, the pursuit of physical pleasures, vanity, disloyalty, and a touch of brutality – not unknown among the fanged crowd. Obviously, Anne ascended publishing with good company at home, as the numerous uses of Stan’s poetry in her writing affirm.
Doctor of Anthropology Sylvia Grider joined in. As Rice was enjoying her first laurels in 1976, Grider spoke to the Texas and New Mexico folklore societies under the title "Meanwhile Back in Transylvania, or: Dracula and the Texan." She took hero Quincey Morris from comparative literature to social profiles.
In 1982 look to Lubbock. Notice the nascent, literary drops coming from cognoscenti in Lubbock where the dry winds can drive you to strange alternatives. First, Texas Tech Press published Dracula: The Ballet by Peggy Willis and Bram Stoker (Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982). Then only five mysterious years later a dissertation was completed, “Magic, trick-work, and illusion in the vampire plays” by Thomas Leonard Colwin, (Ph. D.) --Texas Tech University, 1987. Something had gotten into the aquifer. Don’t blame the Red Vaiders; they were left alone on the plains, attractive to the thirsty thespians, and the national vampire revival bit their naïve, exposed neck early. Recently Tech-student Dustin’s http://www.westtexasvampires.com/ teaser began lurking in videos prepared after he studied the course “Slavistics” (the study of vampires) and chose to expand his earlier “West Texas Vampires” venture on You Tube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=L_6Cgiz9sew
Joe, Al, and Bill legitimized our local genre. Two novels in the late 1980’s appeared each by a good and successful writer: Joe R. Lansdale (Dead in the West - New York: Space and Time, 1986) and Alan R. Erwin.(Skeleton Dancer - New York: Dell Pub., 1989). Then the next year Bill Crider released his children’s book (A Vampire Named Fred. Lufkin, TX: Maggie Books, 1990). After which anti-coagulants were added to the water. Dozens undulated though the publishers’ veins. The cotton tenant farmer and stoic cowboy and the patient heroine and Old Yeller have company, and they are not all gentlemen or all men for that matter or human.
Quickly Dracula movies flickered in dark rooms , Les Vampires (1915) onward with maybe 200 versions. Quincey’s big screen roles are un-researched. Robert Rodriguez directed the 1996 From Dust Till Dawn, set in Texas and Mexico, then the sequel Texas Blood Money (1999) and the prequel The Handman’s Daughter (2000).
An independent company http://www.mistydawntexas.com/ has recently produced Misty Dawn “created and written by Terry Yates and being taped in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. It is both a parody and an homage to the Dark Shadows gothic daytime soap opera. Think of it as "Dark Shadows meets Dallas", complete with a mysterious vampire and a greedy oil baron. / Terry had the idea for the TV series and started writing the scripts, but never dreamed that he would actually end up producing an end product. Together with David Moore as executive producer and a talented cast and crew that are currently giving their time and talent for practically nothing, Misty Dawn is taking shape as a very funny parody in a comedy style not unlike. See their You Tube trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvf9QCWDSCo.
If you visit You Tube http://www.youtube.com/ your search for “Texas and vampire” retrieves 98 videos. Similar to You Tube, the Metacafe at http://www.metacafe.com/ pulls up 1,000 videos, a bewildering number; maybe the “and” was not read as Boolean.
Pale short stories, and extracts from novels-in-progress appear via the net. The author “UntaintableRoses” offers “The Official Bloodline,” an El Paso passage, rating itself for young adults, and appearing at http://www.quizilla.com/users/.Chasing.bunnies./quizzes/The%20Official%20Bloodline%20%5BA%20Vampire%20Story%5D%20El%20Paso/
Also for flickering gamesters, an interactive game is found at B.R. Turner’s http://www.onr.com/user/bturner/ as “Chris’ Houston Vampire Game,” which seems to center in the housing projects, dating about 2000.
In terms of gross, suggestive gestures, the Google is searched to find the most bloodsucking Texan city. “Texas vampire” gives 621,000 hits, Dallas 495K, Austin 488K, Houston 416K, San Antonio 240K, El Paso 163K, Galveston 92K, and Lubbock 84K. Dallas’ Chamber of Commerce must be pleased with the Fang Gang, and the Austin Weird” campaign seems to be working. We’re so relieved. How are things in your locale?
Aggie Bill Page’s outstanding “Horny Toads and Ugly Chickens: A Bibliography on Texas in Speculative Fiction” (September 2001) - at TAMU’s Cushing website http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/texfan.htm - set an entirely new standard in bibliography. A number of the several hundred citations invoke our topic. Page notes that 90% of his total citations were published since 1970, shadowing the wave of Texas vampirism. Even since 2001 the further growth has been remarkable. Page’s other work “Fantasyland / Aggieland: A History of Science Fiction and Fantasy at Texas A&M University and in Brazos County, Texas, 1913-1985” (2007) reveals Aggieland’s deep interests and probably profiles much of broader Texas. He even notes vampire movies shown on campus as far back as the 1930s. See http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/science%20fiction%20texas%20am.pdf
Texas has always been a piece of surreal exotica for fantastic tales in the coffee and whiskey and pillow talk in Europe. And there’s the frontier bloodbath where we demonized the “savage” natives. Let’s not forget the un-human conditions of the slavery institution, fogging the distinctions of acceptable, civilized behavior and blowing the embers of secret conspiracies to overthrow the common power structure. And there’s the recent public interest in chupacabras, bloodsuckers as fearless as bats, they say.
Yes, the bats. Did you know that Texas is the national capital for bats (see http://www.batcon.org/home/default.asp). Our official state symbol for flying mammals is the Mexican Free-tailed bat.
And through it all, women have behaved increasingly more independently and, indeed, have written half the adult novels listed below and with increasing eroticism. Are you nervous yet? Check the several recent works of Diane Whiteside.
Our wide open Texas plains, dense forestlands, lapped coasts, and glittery cities invite writers to fill them, imaginatively.
Before 1980 Texas vampires, except as bats, were virtually non-existent. Then there was the trickle at the base of Texas’ long Panhandle neck. Whatever the causes or correlates or co-incidents or consequences, in the last 25 years an entirely fresh, literary vein or genre or topic has pulsed to life, as uncovered in the below thin-skinned listing. Just since 2000, over 30 titles have been published.
The works listed below (an incomplete list) are usually books of fiction with Texas settings or Texas characters (except for the D & T’s) with the vampire theme. You’ll find children’s books, YA novels, graphic stories/comics, theses, adult novels, and recent articles. If you dare, pick up a few the 60 titles and explore the new blood in Texas literature - vampires. Is Vlad a fad or the newest, loneliest, midnight cowboy?
For a free, electric copy of the bibliography, willstexana@yahoo.com
A Will's Texana Electric Monograph
The full bibliography is available free by emailing a request to willstexana@yahoo.com
The "Introduction" to the bibliography is below:
Introduction
With thanks to Texas A & M University Bibliographer Bill Page and Novelist Anne Rice, and a blood bank of librarians, TAMU Librarian Candace Benefiel, Dallas Public Librarian Rachel Howell, and Yale Librarian Eva Guggemons for allowing me to drain them of their vital, free-flowing information.
We could just point to our neighboring Creole and Cajun rich cultural mix in Louisiana where there is a stunningly high ratio of fictional vampire settings. But there may be even lurking foreign influences. J'arbre comme cadaver, by Léo Malet (Paris : Editions Sagesse: Librairie Tschann, 1937) a surreal work by the future major French detective novelist with a yen for America and Texas. It contains six poems, the first entitled “Texas” and another invoking a vampire’s street presence in Paris. The German comic book series “Pecos-Bill, der Held von Texas” [Pecos Bill, Hero of Texas] had as its 20th issue (among 60 others) the title Die Vampire der Goldstadt, [The Vampire of the City of Gold] (Hamburg: Mondial - Verl., 1954). But Bram’s behind it all.
The true progenitor of the Texas vampire genre begins with the modern master, if not the seminal source, Bram Stoker. Stoker’s original Dracula in 1897 included Quincey Morris, a mysterious, rich, young, cowboy Texan, a gentleman suitor of Mina, an Englishwoman caught in Dracula’s web. Morris and other suitors pursue them from England to Transylvania. There Morris stabs, quite literally with his bowie knife, the heart of Dracula, killing him even sans wooden or silver stake: “Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart” (see Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=35364&pageno=292
Quincey’s subsequent death from a previous fatal wound does not end the story. The gentlewoman takes her other, true love (the story’s narrator) and she bears a child. “It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey” (page 293).
Folklore begat The Texas Folklore Society. Among its many books, the TFS volume # 25 Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk (SMU 1953), includes the venerable Roy Bedichek’s “Folklore in Natural History” and he refers a number of times to the bloodsucking vampire bat, including (page 30) “Our own Cabeza de Vaca contributed his mite to a flourishing folklore by the tale of bloodsucking bats as "big as turtle doves…” In another TFS volume # 24 The Healer of Los Olmos: And Other Mexican Lore (SMU 1951) Soledad Perez recounts in “Mexican Folklore from Austin, Texas” (page 74) “A few believe she [La Llorona]is a vampire that sucks its victim’s blood” or “has the face of a bat.” TFS pushed the envelope further; T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore edited by Francis Edward Abernethy and Herbert C Arbuckle (Dallas: E-Heart Press, 1982) contained the article “The vampire in an age of technology” by Leslie M. Thompson.
All that remains to be found is an urban legend where the Vampire Jay Frank battles the Yaqui Crying Woman Maria Inman for their love-child Erwin Frank, a chupacabra variation, in order to install the rising dark star to control the world through Austin’s “Silicon Hills.” Indeed Erwin has already made reading Stoker’s Dracula virtually mandatory for UT freshmen http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/roundup/2006.html
Can we credit the modern revival to Anne O’Brien Rice?
As a New Orleans child, Anne had written a novella about Martians and other outlandish tales. Her mother died and her father was transferred to Richardson. She spent her last year at Richardson High School where she met her future husband, Dallas-born Stan Rice the late, noted poet and artist, and she began her college days at Texas Woman’s University and North Texas State University. The two young writers were consanguine in literature. They decamped to California. Her first novel Interview with the Vampire (1976), begun in San Francisco as a short-story in 1969, marked the initial volume of her “Vampire Chronicles” series filled with evocative longing, lusting and intrigue, although not itself set in Texas but New Orleans.
Her later Queen of the Damned (1988) contains a chapter, “The short happy life of Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang,” which Rice reports to Texas readers was informed by her brief Texas experience, “As I recall, the Queen of the Damned was the only novel in which I used my Texas experience. Baby Jenks the little biker novel comes from the area around Cedar Creek lake where I lived, and I get to describe the towns.” The chapter is strong with adolescent emotion, rejection, rebellion, and self-assertion. Jenks dies. But Rice lived through her adolescence and left with her Texan who with her and Browning might find themselves, lovingly “feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.” Baby Jenks and Dallas’ Fang Gang are more than nomenclatural adornment; surely they reflect some broken fragments of light on Rice’s own passage, though “through a glass darkly.”
In 2002 after husband Stan Rice’s death in New Orleans, she wrote “In 1973, when I wrote INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, my beautiful husband Stan was the inspiration for the vampire Lestat. He had Stan's long blond hair and blue eyes and feeling grief that inspired Lestat's charm and magnetism and mesmerizing movement,” (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/riceans/messnews7.html ).
Stan’s poems are streaked with surrealism, chunks of color and emotion, and bizarre commentaries on death. His own dead father was the subject of two poems “Don't Put Him In the Freezer" and "Dad is Dead," (The Radiance of Pigs, Knopf, 1999). While not suggestive of his total corpus of his poetry, portions evince nihilism, the pursuit of physical pleasures, vanity, disloyalty, and a touch of brutality – not unknown among the fanged crowd. Obviously, Anne ascended publishing with good company at home, as the numerous uses of Stan’s poetry in her writing affirm.
Doctor of Anthropology Sylvia Grider joined in. As Rice was enjoying her first laurels in 1976, Grider spoke to the Texas and New Mexico folklore societies under the title "Meanwhile Back in Transylvania, or: Dracula and the Texan." She took hero Quincey Morris from comparative literature to social profiles.
In 1982 look to Lubbock. Notice the nascent, literary drops coming from cognoscenti in Lubbock where the dry winds can drive you to strange alternatives. First, Texas Tech Press published Dracula: The Ballet by Peggy Willis and Bram Stoker (Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982). Then only five mysterious years later a dissertation was completed, “Magic, trick-work, and illusion in the vampire plays” by Thomas Leonard Colwin, (Ph. D.) --Texas Tech University, 1987. Something had gotten into the aquifer. Don’t blame the Red Vaiders; they were left alone on the plains, attractive to the thirsty thespians, and the national vampire revival bit their naïve, exposed neck early. Recently Tech-student Dustin’s http://www.westtexasvampires.com/ teaser began lurking in videos prepared after he studied the course “Slavistics” (the study of vampires) and chose to expand his earlier “West Texas Vampires” venture on You Tube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=L_6Cgiz9sew
Joe, Al, and Bill legitimized our local genre. Two novels in the late 1980’s appeared each by a good and successful writer: Joe R. Lansdale (Dead in the West - New York: Space and Time, 1986) and Alan R. Erwin.(Skeleton Dancer - New York: Dell Pub., 1989). Then the next year Bill Crider released his children’s book (A Vampire Named Fred. Lufkin, TX: Maggie Books, 1990). After which anti-coagulants were added to the water. Dozens undulated though the publishers’ veins. The cotton tenant farmer and stoic cowboy and the patient heroine and Old Yeller have company, and they are not all gentlemen or all men for that matter or human.
Quickly Dracula movies flickered in dark rooms , Les Vampires (1915) onward with maybe 200 versions. Quincey’s big screen roles are un-researched. Robert Rodriguez directed the 1996 From Dust Till Dawn, set in Texas and Mexico, then the sequel Texas Blood Money (1999) and the prequel The Handman’s Daughter (2000).
An independent company http://www.mistydawntexas.com/ has recently produced Misty Dawn “created and written by Terry Yates and being taped in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. It is both a parody and an homage to the Dark Shadows gothic daytime soap opera. Think of it as "Dark Shadows meets Dallas", complete with a mysterious vampire and a greedy oil baron. / Terry had the idea for the TV series and started writing the scripts, but never dreamed that he would actually end up producing an end product. Together with David Moore as executive producer and a talented cast and crew that are currently giving their time and talent for practically nothing, Misty Dawn is taking shape as a very funny parody in a comedy style not unlike. See their You Tube trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvf9QCWDSCo.
If you visit You Tube http://www.youtube.com/ your search for “Texas and vampire” retrieves 98 videos. Similar to You Tube, the Metacafe at http://www.metacafe.com/ pulls up 1,000 videos, a bewildering number; maybe the “and” was not read as Boolean.
Pale short stories, and extracts from novels-in-progress appear via the net. The author “UntaintableRoses” offers “The Official Bloodline,” an El Paso passage, rating itself for young adults, and appearing at http://www.quizilla.com/users/.Chasing.bunnies./quizzes/The%20Official%20Bloodline%20%5BA%20Vampire%20Story%5D%20El%20Paso/
Also for flickering gamesters, an interactive game is found at B.R. Turner’s http://www.onr.com/user/bturner/ as “Chris’ Houston Vampire Game,” which seems to center in the housing projects, dating about 2000.
In terms of gross, suggestive gestures, the Google is searched to find the most bloodsucking Texan city. “Texas vampire” gives 621,000 hits, Dallas 495K, Austin 488K, Houston 416K, San Antonio 240K, El Paso 163K, Galveston 92K, and Lubbock 84K. Dallas’ Chamber of Commerce must be pleased with the Fang Gang, and the Austin Weird” campaign seems to be working. We’re so relieved. How are things in your locale?
Aggie Bill Page’s outstanding “Horny Toads and Ugly Chickens: A Bibliography on Texas in Speculative Fiction” (September 2001) - at TAMU’s Cushing website http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/texfan.htm - set an entirely new standard in bibliography. A number of the several hundred citations invoke our topic. Page notes that 90% of his total citations were published since 1970, shadowing the wave of Texas vampirism. Even since 2001 the further growth has been remarkable. Page’s other work “Fantasyland / Aggieland: A History of Science Fiction and Fantasy at Texas A&M University and in Brazos County, Texas, 1913-1985” (2007) reveals Aggieland’s deep interests and probably profiles much of broader Texas. He even notes vampire movies shown on campus as far back as the 1930s. See http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/science%20fiction%20texas%20am.pdf
Texas has always been a piece of surreal exotica for fantastic tales in the coffee and whiskey and pillow talk in Europe. And there’s the frontier bloodbath where we demonized the “savage” natives. Let’s not forget the un-human conditions of the slavery institution, fogging the distinctions of acceptable, civilized behavior and blowing the embers of secret conspiracies to overthrow the common power structure. And there’s the recent public interest in chupacabras, bloodsuckers as fearless as bats, they say.
Yes, the bats. Did you know that Texas is the national capital for bats (see http://www.batcon.org/home/default.asp). Our official state symbol for flying mammals is the Mexican Free-tailed bat.
And through it all, women have behaved increasingly more independently and, indeed, have written half the adult novels listed below and with increasing eroticism. Are you nervous yet? Check the several recent works of Diane Whiteside.
Our wide open Texas plains, dense forestlands, lapped coasts, and glittery cities invite writers to fill them, imaginatively.
Before 1980 Texas vampires, except as bats, were virtually non-existent. Then there was the trickle at the base of Texas’ long Panhandle neck. Whatever the causes or correlates or co-incidents or consequences, in the last 25 years an entirely fresh, literary vein or genre or topic has pulsed to life, as uncovered in the below thin-skinned listing. Just since 2000, over 30 titles have been published.
The works listed below (an incomplete list) are usually books of fiction with Texas settings or Texas characters (except for the D & T’s) with the vampire theme. You’ll find children’s books, YA novels, graphic stories/comics, theses, adult novels, and recent articles. If you dare, pick up a few the 60 titles and explore the new blood in Texas literature - vampires. Is Vlad a fad or the newest, loneliest, midnight cowboy?
For a free, electric copy of the bibliography, willstexana@yahoo.com
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Sam Wants You! San Jacinto Fundraiser
Selective Service System of the San Jacinto Battleground Association issues a
CALL TO ARMS, TO ARMS !!!
to support the SAN JACINTO VOLUNTEERS
The Interim President of the Republic of Texas, To GREETING:
You are hereby ordered to report to General Sam Houston, Commander in Chief of the Texas Army
At: the home of Edd and Nina Hendee, 7 Radney Estates, Houston, TX 77024 At 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2008 For cocktails, dinner and auctions – silent and otherwise. The purpose of this call-up is to help offset expenses of the San Jacinto Volunteers as they bring history to life each year in re-enacting the Battle of San Jacinto at the battleground. Business attire. The favor of a reply by January 10 is requested. Jerry Tubbs, Commander, San Jacinto Volunteers IMPORTANT NOTICE (Read each paragraph carefully) TO ALL REGISTRANTS: Sure to be entertaining is K.R. Wood and his band, Camp Cookie and the Cow Camp Review. Hear Wood and cohorts, “Dangerous” Doug Taylor and “Lonesome” Greg Lowrey, play and harmonize old cowboy songs from the Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Wills and others. Wood will also conduct a brief live auction. Dinner is from Ed and Nina Hendee’s “Taste of Texas”–juicy prime steaks and all the trimmins’ as only they can fix them. Auction items? Historic cruise to Morgan’s Point; travel the route the Mexican Army took on its return to Mexico through the Mar de Lodo (Sea of Mud); enjoy an expert tour of the San Jacinto Battleground; fight in the middle of the 2008 Battle of San Jacinto re-enactment (appropriately clad and armed); own a prototype Texas carbine that’s actually been fired at the Alamo and San Jacinto; possess a hand-crafted Bowie knife; take a private hardhat tour of the Battleship Texas; hang on your wall a genuine invitation to the opening of the San Jacinto Monument from April 1939; entertain thirty of your closest friends at a chuck wagon dinner; and more. Bring your invitation and designer Cliff Gillock will autograph it for you. IF YOUR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITION IS SUCH THAT YOU WISH TO ATTEND, PLEASE SO INDICATE ON THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE..
Texas Literary Drought of the 1910's
Judy Alter in Mike Merschal's "Books Blog" at http://books.beloblog.com/archives/2007/08/top_ten_texas_books.html
recently started a string on Texas literature. I responded as below:
"Here's a list of Texana novelists made to fit a chronology for the 20th century, selected sometimes for first effort and other times for my preferred. Oddities include, I gave only one entry per novelist, so, e.g., having entered the 'Horseman' I passed by the 'Dove.' "
Andy Adams. The Log of a Cowboy. Boston: Houghton, 1903.
Dorothy Scarborough. The Wind. New York: Harper, 1925.
Katherine Anne Porter. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. New York: Knopf, 1939
George Sessions Perry. Hold Autumn in Your Hand New York: Viking, 1941.
William Goyen. House of Breath. New York: Random House, 1950.
William Humphrey. Home from the Hill. New York: Knopf, 1958.
Larry McMurtry. Horseman, Pass By. New York: Harper, 1961.
Capps, Benjamin. The Trail to Ogalla. New York: Duell, 1964.
Robert Flynn. North to Yesterday. New York: Knopf, 1967.
Shelby Hearon. Armadillo in the Grass. New York: Knopf, 1968.
Elmer Kelton The Day the Cowboys Quit. New York: Doubleday, 1971.
Tomás Rivera. . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra. Berkeley: Quinto Sol, 1971.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. Estampas del Valle y otras obras. Berkeley: Quinto Sol, 1972.
Edwin Shrake. Strange Peaches. 1973.
R.G. Vliet. Rockspring. New York: Viking, 1974
Donald Barthelme. The Dead Father. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1975.
Beverly Lowry. Daddy’s Girl. New York: Viking, 1981.
Sarah Bird. Alamo House. New York: Norton, 1986.
Lionel G. Garcia. Hardscrub. Houston: Arte Publico, 1990.
Americo Paredes. George Washington Gomez. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.
Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses. New York: Knopf, 1992.
J. California Cooper. The Wake of the Wind. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
A friendly, email pot-shot was taken for my 1910's gap. There really weren't adequate titles. The Texas novels were few, folks being interested in folklore, cowboy songs, the Soutwest, Mexico, nature, recollections, and such. Stark Young did start the "Texas Review," now the "Southwest Review," in 1915. Women were looking elsewhere. Some of the period titles include:
Joseph Atlsheler. Texan Scouts: The Story of the Alamo and Goliad, 1913 (a juvenile sequel to The Texan Star) and The Texan Triumph: A Romance of the San Jacinto Campaign, 1917.
Everett McNeil. In Texas with Davy Crockett: A Story of the Texas War of Independence, a 1918 variant of a 1908 issue(?).
Lewis Miller. Saddles and Lariats, 1912. (almost all true, a drive to California, maybe in the vein of Adams "Log" that went to Montana.)
O. Henry's shorts ended with his death in 1910.
Edwin Sabin. With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer..., 1916.
Zane Grey. Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912. and The Lone Star Ranger, 1915.
recently started a string on Texas literature. I responded as below:
"Here's a list of Texana novelists made to fit a chronology for the 20th century, selected sometimes for first effort and other times for my preferred. Oddities include, I gave only one entry per novelist, so, e.g., having entered the 'Horseman' I passed by the 'Dove.' "
Andy Adams. The Log of a Cowboy. Boston: Houghton, 1903.
Dorothy Scarborough. The Wind. New York: Harper, 1925.
Katherine Anne Porter. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. New York: Knopf, 1939
George Sessions Perry. Hold Autumn in Your Hand New York: Viking, 1941.
William Goyen. House of Breath. New York: Random House, 1950.
William Humphrey. Home from the Hill. New York: Knopf, 1958.
Larry McMurtry. Horseman, Pass By. New York: Harper, 1961.
Capps, Benjamin. The Trail to Ogalla. New York: Duell, 1964.
Robert Flynn. North to Yesterday. New York: Knopf, 1967.
Shelby Hearon. Armadillo in the Grass. New York: Knopf, 1968.
Elmer Kelton The Day the Cowboys Quit. New York: Doubleday, 1971.
Tomás Rivera. . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra. Berkeley: Quinto Sol, 1971.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. Estampas del Valle y otras obras. Berkeley: Quinto Sol, 1972.
Edwin Shrake. Strange Peaches. 1973.
R.G. Vliet. Rockspring. New York: Viking, 1974
Donald Barthelme. The Dead Father. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1975.
Beverly Lowry. Daddy’s Girl. New York: Viking, 1981.
Sarah Bird. Alamo House. New York: Norton, 1986.
Lionel G. Garcia. Hardscrub. Houston: Arte Publico, 1990.
Americo Paredes. George Washington Gomez. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.
Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses. New York: Knopf, 1992.
J. California Cooper. The Wake of the Wind. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
A friendly, email pot-shot was taken for my 1910's gap. There really weren't adequate titles. The Texas novels were few, folks being interested in folklore, cowboy songs, the Soutwest, Mexico, nature, recollections, and such. Stark Young did start the "Texas Review," now the "Southwest Review," in 1915. Women were looking elsewhere. Some of the period titles include:
Joseph Atlsheler. Texan Scouts: The Story of the Alamo and Goliad, 1913 (a juvenile sequel to The Texan Star) and The Texan Triumph: A Romance of the San Jacinto Campaign, 1917.
Everett McNeil. In Texas with Davy Crockett: A Story of the Texas War of Independence, a 1918 variant of a 1908 issue(?).
Lewis Miller. Saddles and Lariats, 1912. (almost all true, a drive to California, maybe in the vein of Adams "Log" that went to Montana.)
O. Henry's shorts ended with his death in 1910.
Edwin Sabin. With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer..., 1916.
Zane Grey. Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912. and The Lone Star Ranger, 1915.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Chronicle Exposes School Libraries
The Houston Chronicle recently displayed plain common sense and leadership on our children's education as squarely based on their school libraries.
The article by Jennifer Radcliffe made the front page and above the fold. By simply letting the facts and experts tell the story, she exposed the stunning reality that HISD and other area Districts are sharply below standards on the number and age of books available in our students' libraries, the availability of professionally educated staff (sometimes no staff at all), and, surprise of surprises, no libraries at all in some schools.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5326658.html
Only days later four letters to the Editor were printed, all clearly advocating improvement.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5334132.html
The next week, another letter writer revealed the state's separate culpability in undermining our libraries.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5349106.html
In its boldest stance, the Chronicle also ran its own editorial, at the top, further remarking on the the necessity of such a simple component of the educational experience. In fact, the Chron noted that the availability of a well stocked library was SECOND!!!!! only to socioeconomic factors in determining the success of the students on the usual tests - that's SECOND! Good libraries in schools are that important.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5346247.html
If we wish to destroy the next generation, it's easy, take away their books - if not, give them good libraries.
The article by Jennifer Radcliffe made the front page and above the fold. By simply letting the facts and experts tell the story, she exposed the stunning reality that HISD and other area Districts are sharply below standards on the number and age of books available in our students' libraries, the availability of professionally educated staff (sometimes no staff at all), and, surprise of surprises, no libraries at all in some schools.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5326658.html
Only days later four letters to the Editor were printed, all clearly advocating improvement.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5334132.html
The next week, another letter writer revealed the state's separate culpability in undermining our libraries.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5349106.html
In its boldest stance, the Chronicle also ran its own editorial, at the top, further remarking on the the necessity of such a simple component of the educational experience. In fact, the Chron noted that the availability of a well stocked library was SECOND!!!!! only to socioeconomic factors in determining the success of the students on the usual tests - that's SECOND! Good libraries in schools are that important.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5346247.html
If we wish to destroy the next generation, it's easy, take away their books - if not, give them good libraries.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Texas Museums Exhibit Record: A Directory of 2007
Following is the "Introduction" to the December issue of Will's Texana Monthy. We wondered, "What did our museums do this year?"
Introduction
The Texas Museums Exhibits Record: A Directory of 2007 was made possible by the growing sophistication and outreach of the Texas Association of Museums with
the electronic world and the broader bibliographic view of Will’s Texana. We wondered, “What did the museums exhibit this year?” The TAM website has a regular, monthly feature listing its members’ current exhibits as submitted for that purpose. The lists of August onward were captured and interfiled under their respective cities and Texas-based institutions for your inspection. The list is intriguing and inspiring to recognize the variety of productions across the state. December is a great time to visit your local museums.
Museums are curious creatures, for the public as well as for the museums’ staffs. The Texas museum heritage stretches far back. In homes and organizations at some time a few artifacts begin to gather, often for nostalgia, inspiration, merchandizing, or even a legal purpose. In time their location becomes stabilized on a chest of drawers, a cupboard, a shelf, or wrapped carefully away. The keeper began a casual patter for family members, customers, or visitors. Seniors begin jotting notes, enthusiastic youngsters start asking questions, and the ember of a museum begins it slow smolder toward formality. The Handbook of Texas Online offers a brief historical gesture at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/lbm3.html
Most museums’ subjects are local or state oriented and those that are not demonstrate the cosmopolitan nature of Texans as we visually touch the art, business, and technology of other lands. For the present compilation, all exhibits are included here whether they are Texana or not. Not all TAM members post their exhibits with TAM.
We found no current retrospective compilation of Texas museum exhibits, but the electronic world hastens communication and permits this compilation with some ease where previously it would have been onerous.
December exhibits are in red. Although some museums do not show a currently open exhibit they are open for business and your pleasure and edification for their ongoing exhibits and exhibits not reported here. TAM members who do not post their exhibit with TAM are not cited here.
TAM membership includes many institutional members, but some small museums are not members. Their connection to TAM would be beneficial. A brief history of TAM is on their website at “About TAM / History” at
http://www.prismnet.com/~tam/About/history.html
Locations and contact information for each museum can be found on the website at “Find a Museum / TAM Member Links” at http://www.prismnet.com/~tam/Museums/museumlinks.html
Introduction
The Texas Museums Exhibits Record: A Directory of 2007 was made possible by the growing sophistication and outreach of the Texas Association of Museums with
the electronic world and the broader bibliographic view of Will’s Texana. We wondered, “What did the museums exhibit this year?” The TAM website has a regular, monthly feature listing its members’ current exhibits as submitted for that purpose. The lists of August onward were captured and interfiled under their respective cities and Texas-based institutions for your inspection. The list is intriguing and inspiring to recognize the variety of productions across the state. December is a great time to visit your local museums.
Museums are curious creatures, for the public as well as for the museums’ staffs. The Texas museum heritage stretches far back. In homes and organizations at some time a few artifacts begin to gather, often for nostalgia, inspiration, merchandizing, or even a legal purpose. In time their location becomes stabilized on a chest of drawers, a cupboard, a shelf, or wrapped carefully away. The keeper began a casual patter for family members, customers, or visitors. Seniors begin jotting notes, enthusiastic youngsters start asking questions, and the ember of a museum begins it slow smolder toward formality. The Handbook of Texas Online offers a brief historical gesture at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/lbm3.html
Most museums’ subjects are local or state oriented and those that are not demonstrate the cosmopolitan nature of Texans as we visually touch the art, business, and technology of other lands. For the present compilation, all exhibits are included here whether they are Texana or not. Not all TAM members post their exhibits with TAM.
We found no current retrospective compilation of Texas museum exhibits, but the electronic world hastens communication and permits this compilation with some ease where previously it would have been onerous.
December exhibits are in red. Although some museums do not show a currently open exhibit they are open for business and your pleasure and edification for their ongoing exhibits and exhibits not reported here. TAM members who do not post their exhibit with TAM are not cited here.
TAM membership includes many institutional members, but some small museums are not members. Their connection to TAM would be beneficial. A brief history of TAM is on their website at “About TAM / History” at
http://www.prismnet.com/~tam/About/history.html
Locations and contact information for each museum can be found on the website at “Find a Museum / TAM Member Links” at http://www.prismnet.com/~tam/Museums/museumlinks.html
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Will Howard and Texas Children's Literature
I post this in preparation of the November Will's Texana Monthly entitled: Children's Texana Picture and Easy Books of Recent Interest: A Casual Bibliography of about 150 titles.
I became aware of the genre through previous matters. I co-chaired in the middle 1970s a Youth Services Interest Group Task Force for the Southwestern Library Association to compile a selective bibliography of books in print. It was intended to supplement The Southwest in Children's Books: A Bibliography, edited by Mildred Harrington (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1952).
The subsequent distant touchstone for that project was Southwest Heritage: a literary history with bibliography, 2nd edition, by Mabel Major, Rebecca Smith, and T.M. Pearce (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948.) Southwest Heritage’s 1938 edition lacks a children’s section. But, of course, there was Texas in Children's Books compiled by Kay Pinckney Braziel and Dorothy Brand Smith. (Austin: Univ. of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library Science, 1974.) Another earlier work consulted was “A Collection of Stories of Early Texas for Supplementary Reading in the Elementary Grades” by Leslie Mullin, a master’s thesis from Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 1943. Several locally compiled lists from Dallas etc. were also considered, e.g., A List of Books and Related Materials about Texas for use in schools, by Mary Akin Cochran (Austin Public Schools, 1952.) That SWLA task force’s work became a paperback list, A Selective Guide to In-print Children's Books about the Southwest co-edited by Will Howard and Judith Bryant (Dallas: Southwestern Library Association, Youth Services Interest Group, 1977.) Through that project, Texas writer Byrd Baylor’s elegant, humanistic, and charming books came to dwell in my sentiments. And we’ve all slapped our legs on James Rice’s humor.
Determining that Texana in general was not systematically monitored, I founded the Texas Bibliographical Society’s Texas Current Bibliography and Index (early 1970s to 1981), and I deliberately included children’s material in that periodical’s listings. The TCBI as served as a book review index.
After a trip to Chicago, I collected children’s material published by the communist Chinese government because they were so intriguing to compare with our democratic Western European tradition and so revealing by a reverse mirror image. I married children’s librarian Carol Spencer with her interest, research and personal collection of Wanda Gag, who established the modern American picture book standard with Million of Cats.
I wrote and published an ABC book on Austin, Texas, Arthur’s Austin ABC: Arturo en Austin, un abecedario, illustrated by Ben Sargent and translated by Maria Isabel Jofre (Winter Wheat House, 1981). At the time Texana picture books, indeed even alphabet books, were available but in relatively small numbers. For a while I consulted for school libraries and taught in some Austin private schools.
Some time later, in Houston, the arrival of youngsters into Houston Public Library’s Texas Room, where I served for many years, was a continuing pleasure.
When I retired and began the Monthly, I included youngsters’ books. My discovery of the National Center for Illustrated Children’s Literature and Museum at http://www.nccil.org/ with its wonderful facility in Abilene has been a delight.
I became aware of the genre through previous matters. I co-chaired in the middle 1970s a Youth Services Interest Group Task Force for the Southwestern Library Association to compile a selective bibliography of books in print. It was intended to supplement The Southwest in Children's Books: A Bibliography, edited by Mildred Harrington (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1952).
The subsequent distant touchstone for that project was Southwest Heritage: a literary history with bibliography, 2nd edition, by Mabel Major, Rebecca Smith, and T.M. Pearce (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948.) Southwest Heritage’s 1938 edition lacks a children’s section. But, of course, there was Texas in Children's Books compiled by Kay Pinckney Braziel and Dorothy Brand Smith. (Austin: Univ. of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library Science, 1974.) Another earlier work consulted was “A Collection of Stories of Early Texas for Supplementary Reading in the Elementary Grades” by Leslie Mullin, a master’s thesis from Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 1943. Several locally compiled lists from Dallas etc. were also considered, e.g., A List of Books and Related Materials about Texas for use in schools, by Mary Akin Cochran (Austin Public Schools, 1952.) That SWLA task force’s work became a paperback list, A Selective Guide to In-print Children's Books about the Southwest co-edited by Will Howard and Judith Bryant (Dallas: Southwestern Library Association, Youth Services Interest Group, 1977.) Through that project, Texas writer Byrd Baylor’s elegant, humanistic, and charming books came to dwell in my sentiments. And we’ve all slapped our legs on James Rice’s humor.
Determining that Texana in general was not systematically monitored, I founded the Texas Bibliographical Society’s Texas Current Bibliography and Index (early 1970s to 1981), and I deliberately included children’s material in that periodical’s listings. The TCBI as served as a book review index.
After a trip to Chicago, I collected children’s material published by the communist Chinese government because they were so intriguing to compare with our democratic Western European tradition and so revealing by a reverse mirror image. I married children’s librarian Carol Spencer with her interest, research and personal collection of Wanda Gag, who established the modern American picture book standard with Million of Cats.
I wrote and published an ABC book on Austin, Texas, Arthur’s Austin ABC: Arturo en Austin, un abecedario, illustrated by Ben Sargent and translated by Maria Isabel Jofre (Winter Wheat House, 1981). At the time Texana picture books, indeed even alphabet books, were available but in relatively small numbers. For a while I consulted for school libraries and taught in some Austin private schools.
Some time later, in Houston, the arrival of youngsters into Houston Public Library’s Texas Room, where I served for many years, was a continuing pleasure.
When I retired and began the Monthly, I included youngsters’ books. My discovery of the National Center for Illustrated Children’s Literature and Museum at http://www.nccil.org/ with its wonderful facility in Abilene has been a delight.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Ghosts in the Handbook of Texas and TARO
Almost 300 uses of the word "ghost" in the Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Almost 100 citations of the "ghost" in the Texas Archives Research Organization files
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Almost 100 citations of the "ghost" in the Texas Archives Research Organization files
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/
Ghost and Haunts
Texas Hauntings -150 haunts
http://www.sgha.net/texas_haunts.html
Texas Escapes: another long list of ghosts
http://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/Texas_ghosts.htm
My UFO Blog _ with maybe a thousand sighting of ghosts etc
http://www.myufo.com/2006/03/haunted_places_in_texas.html
Lone Star Spirits
Ghosts by city
Amarillo Austin Corpus Christi Dallas El Paso
Fort Worth Galveston Houston Lubbock San Antonio
The Beer Bytch - has a list of about 500
http://www.beer-bytch.com/txhauntedplaces.htm
Invisible Ink
http://www.invink.com/writing.html
Brief introduction to writing a book of ghost stories
http://www.sgha.net/texas_haunts.html
Texas Escapes: another long list of ghosts
http://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/Texas_ghosts.htm
My UFO Blog _ with maybe a thousand sighting of ghosts etc
http://www.myufo.com/2006/03/haunted_places_in_texas.html
Lone Star Spirits
Ghosts by city
Amarillo Austin Corpus Christi Dallas El Paso
Fort Worth Galveston Houston Lubbock San Antonio
The Beer Bytch - has a list of about 500
http://www.beer-bytch.com/txhauntedplaces.htm
Invisible Ink
http://www.invink.com/writing.html
Brief introduction to writing a book of ghost stories
Texas Environment Blogs
Environment Texas Blog
http://www.environmenttexas.org/blog
Texas Campaign for the Environment
http://www.texasenvironment.org/blogs.cfm
TCE Enviro Blog: Quite simply, the blog that tracks and updates you on all info Texas Campaign for the Environment.
Texas Trash Watch: Keeping you informed on the latest concerning facts about Texas landfills.
Nature Writers of Texas
http://texasnature.blogspot.com/
El Llanero
Crows Really Are Wise
Journals of an Amateur Naturalist
B&B
milkriverblog
Circus of the Spineless
http://www.environmenttexas.org/blog
Texas Campaign for the Environment
http://www.texasenvironment.org/blogs.cfm
TCE Enviro Blog: Quite simply, the blog that tracks and updates you on all info Texas Campaign for the Environment.
Texas Trash Watch: Keeping you informed on the latest concerning facts about Texas landfills.
Nature Writers of Texas
http://texasnature.blogspot.com/
El Llanero
Crows Really Are Wise
Journals of an Amateur Naturalist
B&B
milkriverblog
Circus of the Spineless
Saturday, September 29, 2007
La Bloga: Chicano / a authors
http://labloga.blogspot.com/2006/05/man-who-could-fly.html
Chicano Literature, Chicano Writers, Chicano Fiction, Children's Literature, News, Views & Reviews. [También de Chicanas.]
Chicano Literature, Chicano Writers, Chicano Fiction, Children's Literature, News, Views & Reviews. [También de Chicanas.]
Floricanto and Tejana novels and humor
From out in California Floricanto Press, 3 items are found
http://www.floricantopress.com/
La Picardía Chicana: Latino Folk Humor. Folklore Latino Jocoso. José R. Reyna, Edited by Andrea Alessandra Cabello, University of California, Berkeley, with the Assistance of Gloria Canales. 0-915745-42-9 $35.00 Bulk sales for class use $25.00
Latina Mistress. By R.F. Sánchez 978-0-915745-91-3. 332 pgs. $24.95
La Gringa. By Pedro Martínez. ISBN: 978-0-915745-94-4. 428 pgs. $25.95
http://www.floricantopress.com/
La Picardía Chicana: Latino Folk Humor. Folklore Latino Jocoso. José R. Reyna, Edited by Andrea Alessandra Cabello, University of California, Berkeley, with the Assistance of Gloria Canales. 0-915745-42-9 $35.00 Bulk sales for class use $25.00
Latina Mistress. By R.F. Sánchez 978-0-915745-91-3. 332 pgs. $24.95
La Gringa. By Pedro Martínez. ISBN: 978-0-915745-94-4. 428 pgs. $25.95
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tx Dept of Ag - Land Heritage Program
http://www.agr.state.tx.us/agr/program_render/0,1987,1848_5409_0_0,00.html?channel=5409
Over 4000 sites recognized, but I didn't find an online list. But it seems I saw a paper version once upon a time.
"The Family Land Heritage Program honors farms and ranches that have been in continuous agricultural operation by the same family for 100 years or more. The program is designed to recognize and chronicle the unique history of Texas agriculture and the men and women who settled this great state and continue the tradition today.
Since the program started in 1974, the Texas Department of Agriculture has recognized more than 4,200 farms and ranches in 232 counties across Texas. "
A map at Family Land Heritage Honorees By County Map 1974-2006 can help.
Over 4000 sites recognized, but I didn't find an online list. But it seems I saw a paper version once upon a time.
"The Family Land Heritage Program honors farms and ranches that have been in continuous agricultural operation by the same family for 100 years or more. The program is designed to recognize and chronicle the unique history of Texas agriculture and the men and women who settled this great state and continue the tradition today.
Since the program started in 1974, the Texas Department of Agriculture has recognized more than 4,200 farms and ranches in 232 counties across Texas. "
A map at Family Land Heritage Honorees By County Map 1974-2006 can help.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
TAMU Historic Building models for sale
http://www.aggielandmarks.net/hisbuil.html
Historic Buildings include original structures built prior to the modern age of A&M when women were enrolled and manditory Corps participation ceased.
Academic Building$20.00
Chemistry Building (1929)$20.00
Civil Engineering Building (1932)$21.00
Cushing Memorial Library$20.00
DeWare Field House$18.00
G. Rollie White Coliseum$20.00
Legett Hall (1911)$21.00
Scoates Hall$20.00
Nagle Hall$20.00
(/For those of you who always wanted to buy a college)
Historic Buildings include original structures built prior to the modern age of A&M when women were enrolled and manditory Corps participation ceased.
Academic Building$20.00
Chemistry Building (1929)$20.00
Civil Engineering Building (1932)$21.00
Cushing Memorial Library$20.00
DeWare Field House$18.00
G. Rollie White Coliseum$20.00
Legett Hall (1911)$21.00
Scoates Hall$20.00
Nagle Hall$20.00
(/For those of you who always wanted to buy a college)
American Society Mechanical Engineers - Landmarks
http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Landmarks/
Texas listing
TEXAS
#52 Saturn V Rocket (1967)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake City, Texas: largest rocket engines at the time of the first US lunar missions
#160 ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972)*
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas: world's first practical production machine for the assembly of integrated circuits, making possible their economical production
#154 Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949)
Houston Lighting and Power Co., Houston, Texas: first fully outdoor turbine-generator to be placed in commercial operation
#155 Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928)
Milam GP Limited, San Antonio, Texas: first US air-conditioned high-rise office building
#242 Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962)
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas: Mechanical test instrument used to measure and characterize the dynamic response of materials at high strain rates
#227 First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922)
Cameron World Headquarters, Houston, Texas: first ram-type blowout preventer, which sealed the wellhead and controlled pressure during drilling and oil production operations
#125 Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911)
Age of Steam Railroad Museum, Dallas, Texas: earliest known survivor of the fleet of heavyweight, all-steel sleepers built by the Pullman Company
#137 Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive (1927)
Texas State Railroad Historical Park, Palestine, Texas: sole surviving example of the earliest form of "superpower" steam locomotives
#145 Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1956)
Dallas, Texas: first computer system to be applied to the design of natural-gas pipeline systems
#231 LeTourneau (1922)
Longview, TX. ASME Landmark since 2004, the Mountain Mover Earthmoving Scraper helped lead to better access to farming land and road, highway and airport building for decades after its introduction
#163 Meter-type Gas Odorizer (1937)
Peerless Manufacturing R & D Facility, Dallas, Texas: early safety device for introducing odor into natural-gas lines to make leaks apparent
#179 Newell Shredder (1969)
Newell Industries, San Antonio, Texas: second and earliest surviving automobile shredder for recycling scrap metal
#173 Burton Farmers Gin Mill (1914)
Burton, Texas: earliest known survivor of an integrated cotton ginning system widely used in the southern United States
#10 USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914)
San Jancinto Battleground State Park, Houston, Texas: last reciprocating marine engines installed in a naval ship
#239 Hughes Glomar Explorer
Built to lift a sunk Soviet submarine from the bottom of the Pacific. Designated as an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in Houston, Texas on July 20, 2006
#151 Victoria Dutch Windmill (1840s)
City of Victoria, Parks and Recreation Dept., Victoria, Texas: mid-19th-century wind-powered gristmill of Dutch turret-mill style
Texas listing
TEXAS
#52 Saturn V Rocket (1967)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake City, Texas: largest rocket engines at the time of the first US lunar missions
#160 ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972)*
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas: world's first practical production machine for the assembly of integrated circuits, making possible their economical production
#154 Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949)
Houston Lighting and Power Co., Houston, Texas: first fully outdoor turbine-generator to be placed in commercial operation
#155 Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928)
Milam GP Limited, San Antonio, Texas: first US air-conditioned high-rise office building
#242 Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962)
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas: Mechanical test instrument used to measure and characterize the dynamic response of materials at high strain rates
#227 First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922)
Cameron World Headquarters, Houston, Texas: first ram-type blowout preventer, which sealed the wellhead and controlled pressure during drilling and oil production operations
#125 Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911)
Age of Steam Railroad Museum, Dallas, Texas: earliest known survivor of the fleet of heavyweight, all-steel sleepers built by the Pullman Company
#137 Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive (1927)
Texas State Railroad Historical Park, Palestine, Texas: sole surviving example of the earliest form of "superpower" steam locomotives
#145 Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1956)
Dallas, Texas: first computer system to be applied to the design of natural-gas pipeline systems
#231 LeTourneau (1922)
Longview, TX. ASME Landmark since 2004, the Mountain Mover Earthmoving Scraper helped lead to better access to farming land and road, highway and airport building for decades after its introduction
#163 Meter-type Gas Odorizer (1937)
Peerless Manufacturing R & D Facility, Dallas, Texas: early safety device for introducing odor into natural-gas lines to make leaks apparent
#179 Newell Shredder (1969)
Newell Industries, San Antonio, Texas: second and earliest surviving automobile shredder for recycling scrap metal
#173 Burton Farmers Gin Mill (1914)
Burton, Texas: earliest known survivor of an integrated cotton ginning system widely used in the southern United States
#10 USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914)
San Jancinto Battleground State Park, Houston, Texas: last reciprocating marine engines installed in a naval ship
#239 Hughes Glomar Explorer
Built to lift a sunk Soviet submarine from the bottom of the Pacific. Designated as an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in Houston, Texas on July 20, 2006
#151 Victoria Dutch Windmill (1840s)
City of Victoria, Parks and Recreation Dept., Victoria, Texas: mid-19th-century wind-powered gristmill of Dutch turret-mill style
National Parks Ser - Historic Landmarks Program
Search for Texas at
http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/
Alamo San Antonio Texas Building
Apollo Mission Control Center Houston Texas Building
Bastrop State Park Bastrop Texas District
Dealey Plaza Historic District DallasTexas District
East End Historic District GalvestonTexas District
ELISSA (Bark) Galveston Texas Structure
Espada Aqueduct San AntonioTexas Structure
Fair Park Texas Centennial Buildings DallasTexas District
Fort Belknap GrahamTexas Building
Fort Brown BrownsvilleTexas District
Fort Concho San Angelo Texas District
Fort Davis Fort DavisTexas District
Fort Richardson JacksboroTexas Building
Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam HoustonTexas District
Garner, John Nance, House UvaldeTexas Building
Governor's Mansion (Austin) AustinTexas Building
HA. 19 (Midget Submarine) Fredericksburg Texas Structure
Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base San AntonioTexas Building
Harrell Site South BendTexas Site
Highland Park Shopping Village Highland ParkTexas Building
J A Ranch (Goodnight Ranch) Palo DuroTexas District
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, Boyhood Home Johnson CityTexas Building
King RanchKingsville andTexas District
Landergin Mesa VegaTexas Site
Lexington, USS (Aircraft Carrier)Corpus ChristiTexas Structure
Lubbock Lake SiteLubbockTexasSite
Lucas Gusher, Spindletop Oil FieldBeaumontTexasSite
Majestic TheatreSan AntonioTexasBuilding
Mission ConcepcionSan AntonioTexasBuilding
Palmito Ranch BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasDistrict
Palo Alto BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasSite
Plainview SitePlainviewTexasSite
Porter FarmTerrellTexasSite
Presidio Nuestra Senora De Loreto De La BahiaGoliadTexasBuilding
Randolph Field Historic DistrictSan AntonioTexasDistrict
Rayburn, Samuel T,. HouseBonhamTexasBuilding
Resaca De La Palma BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasSite
Roma Historic DistrictRomaTexasDistrict
San Jacinto BattlefieldHoustonTexasSite
Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, Chambers A and B HoustonTexasStructure
Spanish Governor's Palace San AntonioTexasBuilding
Strand Historic District GalvestonTexasDistrict
TEXAS (USS) HoustonTexasStructure
Texas State Capitol AustinTexasBuilding
Trevino-Uribe Rancho San YgnacioTexasBuilding
Woodland HuntsvilleTexasBuilding
http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/
Alamo San Antonio Texas Building
Apollo Mission Control Center Houston Texas Building
Bastrop State Park Bastrop Texas District
Dealey Plaza Historic District DallasTexas District
East End Historic District GalvestonTexas District
ELISSA (Bark) Galveston Texas Structure
Espada Aqueduct San AntonioTexas Structure
Fair Park Texas Centennial Buildings DallasTexas District
Fort Belknap GrahamTexas Building
Fort Brown BrownsvilleTexas District
Fort Concho San Angelo Texas District
Fort Davis Fort DavisTexas District
Fort Richardson JacksboroTexas Building
Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam HoustonTexas District
Garner, John Nance, House UvaldeTexas Building
Governor's Mansion (Austin) AustinTexas Building
HA. 19 (Midget Submarine) Fredericksburg Texas Structure
Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base San AntonioTexas Building
Harrell Site South BendTexas Site
Highland Park Shopping Village Highland ParkTexas Building
J A Ranch (Goodnight Ranch) Palo DuroTexas District
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, Boyhood Home Johnson CityTexas Building
King RanchKingsville andTexas District
Landergin Mesa VegaTexas Site
Lexington, USS (Aircraft Carrier)Corpus ChristiTexas Structure
Lubbock Lake SiteLubbockTexasSite
Lucas Gusher, Spindletop Oil FieldBeaumontTexasSite
Majestic TheatreSan AntonioTexasBuilding
Mission ConcepcionSan AntonioTexasBuilding
Palmito Ranch BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasDistrict
Palo Alto BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasSite
Plainview SitePlainviewTexasSite
Porter FarmTerrellTexasSite
Presidio Nuestra Senora De Loreto De La BahiaGoliadTexasBuilding
Randolph Field Historic DistrictSan AntonioTexasDistrict
Rayburn, Samuel T,. HouseBonhamTexasBuilding
Resaca De La Palma BattlefieldBrownsvilleTexasSite
Roma Historic DistrictRomaTexasDistrict
San Jacinto BattlefieldHoustonTexasSite
Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, Chambers A and B HoustonTexasStructure
Spanish Governor's Palace San AntonioTexasBuilding
Strand Historic District GalvestonTexasDistrict
TEXAS (USS) HoustonTexasStructure
Texas State Capitol AustinTexasBuilding
Trevino-Uribe Rancho San YgnacioTexasBuilding
Woodland HuntsvilleTexasBuilding
Texas Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks in Wikipedia
Our built environment is a major portion of our preserved history and culture.
Wikipedia has some interesting offerings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_civil_engineering_landmarks#Texas
Brooks AFB, Old Hangar 9, San Antonio
San Antonio River Walk & Flood Control System, San Antonio
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising, Galveston
Acequias of San Antonio, San Antonio
El Camino Real (The Royal Road) Eastern Branch, San Antonio
Denison Dam, Denison
Texas Commerce Bank (formerly Gulf, now Chase) Building, Houston
San Jacinto Monument, Houston
International Boundary Marker #1, El Paso
Houston Ship Channel, Houston
http://www.texasce.org/docs/PastLandmarks.cfm
HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARKS OF TEXAS SECTION-ASCE
with years of dedication (Click on a project name that is in red to see more information about it.)
National CE Landmarks in Texas
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising Galveston 2001
Hangar 9, Brooks AFB San Antonio 1998
Gulf Building (Texas Commerce Bank, now Chase Bank) Houston 1997
San Antonio's River Walk San Antonio 1996
Denison Dam (with Oklahoma Section) Red River 1993
The San Jacinto Monument East Harris County 1992
Houston Ship Channel Houston 1987
El Camino Real, Eastern Branch San Antonio 1986
International Boundary Marker No. 1 (with New Mexico and Mexico Sections) El Paso 1976
Acequias of San Antonio San Antonio 1968
Texas CE Landmarks
Bataan Memorial Trainway El Paso 2003
Hays Street Bridge San Antonio 2001
Highland Chain of Lakes Texas Hill Country 2000
Holly Pump Station and North Holly Water Treatment Plant Fort Worth 1992
Medina Dam Lake Medina 1991
Buchanan Dam Lake Buchanan 1990
Original Dallas Floodway Dallas 1989
Houston Street Viaduct Dallas 1989
Corpus Christi Seawall Corpus Christi 1988
El Camino Real, Central Branch El Paso 1988
Mills Building El Paso 1981
Paddock Viaduct Fort Worth 1976
Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Works(San Antonio Japanese Tea Gardens) San Antonio 1976
Franklin Canal El Paso 1976
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising Galveston 1975
Waco Suspension Bridge Waco 1971
Historic Markers with Other Sections
International Boundary Marker No. 1 (with New Mexico and Mexico Sections) El Paso 1976
International Boundary Markerbetween the Republic of Texas andthe U.S. (with Louisiana Section) Logansport, LA 1980
Denison Dam (with Oklahoma Section) Red River 1993
Other sources:
Texas Almanac
see also: http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/landmarks/
Texas CE
http://www.austinasce.org/hh.htm (Austin Branch, Texas Section - History and Heritage Committee)
http://www.texasce.org/docs/AwardsNational.cfm (for national awards)
Consider adding to these lists or using them to augment your communites awareness of their history through civil engineering
Wikipedia has some interesting offerings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_civil_engineering_landmarks#Texas
Brooks AFB, Old Hangar 9, San Antonio
San Antonio River Walk & Flood Control System, San Antonio
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising, Galveston
Acequias of San Antonio, San Antonio
El Camino Real (The Royal Road) Eastern Branch, San Antonio
Denison Dam, Denison
Texas Commerce Bank (formerly Gulf, now Chase) Building, Houston
San Jacinto Monument, Houston
International Boundary Marker #1, El Paso
Houston Ship Channel, Houston
http://www.texasce.org/docs/PastLandmarks.cfm
HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARKS OF TEXAS SECTION-ASCE
with years of dedication (Click on a project name that is in red to see more information about it.)
National CE Landmarks in Texas
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising Galveston 2001
Hangar 9, Brooks AFB San Antonio 1998
Gulf Building (Texas Commerce Bank, now Chase Bank) Houston 1997
San Antonio's River Walk San Antonio 1996
Denison Dam (with Oklahoma Section) Red River 1993
The San Jacinto Monument East Harris County 1992
Houston Ship Channel Houston 1987
El Camino Real, Eastern Branch San Antonio 1986
International Boundary Marker No. 1 (with New Mexico and Mexico Sections) El Paso 1976
Acequias of San Antonio San Antonio 1968
Texas CE Landmarks
Bataan Memorial Trainway El Paso 2003
Hays Street Bridge San Antonio 2001
Highland Chain of Lakes Texas Hill Country 2000
Holly Pump Station and North Holly Water Treatment Plant Fort Worth 1992
Medina Dam Lake Medina 1991
Buchanan Dam Lake Buchanan 1990
Original Dallas Floodway Dallas 1989
Houston Street Viaduct Dallas 1989
Corpus Christi Seawall Corpus Christi 1988
El Camino Real, Central Branch El Paso 1988
Mills Building El Paso 1981
Paddock Viaduct Fort Worth 1976
Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Works(San Antonio Japanese Tea Gardens) San Antonio 1976
Franklin Canal El Paso 1976
Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising Galveston 1975
Waco Suspension Bridge Waco 1971
Historic Markers with Other Sections
International Boundary Marker No. 1 (with New Mexico and Mexico Sections) El Paso 1976
International Boundary Markerbetween the Republic of Texas andthe U.S. (with Louisiana Section) Logansport, LA 1980
Denison Dam (with Oklahoma Section) Red River 1993
Other sources:
Texas Almanac
see also: http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/landmarks/
Texas CE
http://www.austinasce.org/hh.htm (Austin Branch, Texas Section - History and Heritage Committee)
http://www.texasce.org/docs/AwardsNational.cfm (for national awards)
Consider adding to these lists or using them to augment your communites awareness of their history through civil engineering
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Ed Blackburn and the Texana Review
At http://www.texanareview.com/ Ed Blackburn has confected a warm and attractive pod cast, The Texana Review. And, well, it's useful also for those interested in history, literature, and the land, not a bad trifecta. Ed skillfully produces about a cast a week on the average. For example, he interviews Elmer Kelton (in 5 parts) and Joachim Jackson the Texas Ranger (the star and gun type not the ball hurlers). He considers a number of land and energy questions. But I guess my favorite is his early morning video of his neighbor's house being demolished because as you watch and listen all sorts of wonderment falls forth.
Texas and Global Warming - very briefly
http://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/pdfs/Texas.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/texas/global_warmi/
http://www.tamug.edu/labb/Global_Warming_Info.htm
http://texas.sierraclub.org/conservation/20070416.asp
http://www.environmenttexas.org/news-releases/global-warming
http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2007-04-RR08-globalwarming.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/texas/Global_Warmi/Consequences/
http://dmcsystems.org/dmccp/dhkjsh78y98dkj/dmc/content/pages/instance1.php?id=Marston:+Global+Warming
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/spotlights/gwConference.html
http://www.citizen.org/texas/global_warmi/
http://www.tamug.edu/labb/Global_Warming_Info.htm
http://texas.sierraclub.org/conservation/20070416.asp
http://www.environmenttexas.org/news-releases/global-warming
http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2007-04-RR08-globalwarming.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/texas/Global_Warmi/Consequences/
http://dmcsystems.org/dmccp/dhkjsh78y98dkj/dmc/content/pages/instance1.php?id=Marston:+Global+Warming
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/spotlights/gwConference.html
Houston Chronicle Houston History blog
Despite the assumption that Houston is built JUST SO somebody can igore yesterday, the venerable rag takes up the cause
http://www.blogs.chron.com/bayoucity-history
http://www.blogs.chron.com/bayoucity-history
North Texas Regional Library System blog, podcast
Good for professionals to glance at from time to time. A full description of the Dobie grants for small Texas libraries is there. There's also a note of a children's bookstore closing. Other more technical material serving librarians is chocked here.
Oh! There's a desciption of their podcasting project "Librarian Live," http://librarianlive.pbwiki.com/
Oh! There's a desciption of their podcasting project "Librarian Live," http://librarianlive.pbwiki.com/
Honeygrove Tx: setting of One Tree Hill tv show
Yes hear the sounds and music as OTH shoots in Honeygrove
http://www.othpodcast.com/media/Suffering_Version_FINAL_FINAL3.mov
http://www.othpodcast.com/media/Suffering_Version_FINAL_FINAL3.mov
Gunsmoke as radio before tv
Some folks have captured early radio shows like "Gunsmoke" before James Arness.
This episode features "Texas Cowboys"
http://calfkillerotrpodcast.blogspot.com/2007/06/texas-cowboys-gunsmoke.html
This episode features "Texas Cowboys"
http://calfkillerotrpodcast.blogspot.com/2007/06/texas-cowboys-gunsmoke.html
Passport to Texas via Parks & Wildlife Dept podcast
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has distributed radio show via its Passport to Texas. A variety of the are also posted as audios here.
http://passporttotexas.org/listen/
http://passporttotexas.org/listen/
Texas Observer blog
For a view from the left side of the river, try the Texas Observer's blog
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/
Dallas New Books Blog
The Dallas Morning News ( a Belo production) has a book blog that often has Texana notes there within.
http://books.beloblog.com/
http://books.beloblog.com/
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Current Bibliographies of Texas Texana 2006
Will's Texana Annual: 2006 (issued March 2007) will contain a trio of current bibliographies of Texas.
The "Current Trade" bibliography contains about 800 citations of material about Texas published during 2006. The citations are spare, just author, title, place of publication, publisher, and date. The list includes non-fiction, fiction, children's, poetry, pictorials, etc. Some Spanish language material is included. Often the fiction and juvenile material is so labelled.
The "Current State Government" bibliography includes about 400 selections from the listings provided by the Texas State Library and Archives Commissions Clearinghouse program. Monograph and serials are included.
The "Current Dissertations & Theses" listing contains about 200 titles of more general interest, less technical.
The ANNUAL also includes a retrospection cumulation of the Monthly, and a directory of Texana depositories in Texas.
And a few other items.
The "Current Trade" bibliography contains about 800 citations of material about Texas published during 2006. The citations are spare, just author, title, place of publication, publisher, and date. The list includes non-fiction, fiction, children's, poetry, pictorials, etc. Some Spanish language material is included. Often the fiction and juvenile material is so labelled.
The "Current State Government" bibliography includes about 400 selections from the listings provided by the Texas State Library and Archives Commissions Clearinghouse program. Monograph and serials are included.
The "Current Dissertations & Theses" listing contains about 200 titles of more general interest, less technical.
The ANNUAL also includes a retrospection cumulation of the Monthly, and a directory of Texana depositories in Texas.
And a few other items.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Directory of Texana Depositories in Texas
The Directory of Texana in Texas" was developed part of "Will's Texas Annual," and companion to the Monthly and the Parlor blog is being compiled. First released in March 2007, on CD, USB Flash Drive, and paper. Deadline was, Valentine's Day, send info to willstexana@yahoo.com
At present the Directory contains about 800 institutions spread over 125 pages. It is arranged by city. Intended for electronic use, address, telephone, etc are not supplied here, rather the most up to date information will be on the web sites supplied. Each entry often, but not always, contains
City'sName: Institution, web site, Revelevant Department Name, more specific web site address, summary description of depository collection strengths (some a mere line, some an inch or two, and some a page in length).
If you are readers of "Will's Texana Monthly, you've noticed, I'm compiling a Will's Texana Annual, a cumulation of the Monthly with some extra added attractions, including a "Directory of Texana Depositories in Texas ," and a variety of other works totalling about 600 pages.
Does your local institution have a mentionable collection? What about your neighbors?
The Directory is presently intended to include those institutions with Texana "as a subject matter," although I vary. Some institutions are small, some large. My descriptions vary - from a mere institutional mention, or up to a page; some are mine as original, some are taken from web sites, and some offered upon query from the institutions.
One method I used to collect information was to use some pre-existing organizational lists: including the institutional membership of Archivists of the Houston Area, the RHRD depository list, the institutional membership list of the Texas Association of Museums, the list of Texas State government depositories, the list of contributors to TARO, the list of contributors to UNT's Portal to Texas history. I've queried TLA's ALHRT listserv and several other units of TLA, as well as the Metropolitan Archivists (of DFW), the San Antonio Regional Archivists, and the Austin Archivists Association, and the Border Regional Archivist Group (BRAG). I visited a number of public, special, and academic library web sites, but certainly not all. And etc.
While the list has lengthened, it is certainly not comprehensive. I choose to not apply "too strict" a definition of inclusion or exclusion. Yes, the broadest definition would be maybe several thousand, but well, even I wish to enjoy a separate life. I'll collect what I collect and go from there, there after.
If you wish to email to me a separate description of your collection, do please do so. It'd be helpful if a website were named. I'm at willstexana @yahoo.com
If you wish to direct me to other depositories or provide a description of those, please do so.
SAMPLE ENTRIES (unedited as of 1/25) see below
Alpine: Sul Ross State University Museum of the Big Bend http://www.sulross.edu/~museum/ . Includes artifacts of the Big Bend region, including the Native Americans, Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans who inhabited the area. “For more than 70 years the Museum of the Big Bend has been collecting and exhibiting artifacts of the vast Big Bend region. Encompassing the Davis Mountains to the north and the borderlands of Mexico, the Big Bend has been inhabited for over 11,000 years. Throughout that time, four distinct cultures emerged and shaped the history and heritage of the region. Together with the Center for Big Bend Studies, the Museum of the Big Bend's goal is to capture this human history that reflects contributions of the Native Americans, the Spanish, the Mexicans and the Anglo-Americans. Today at the Museum of the Big Bend, both adults and children enjoy experiencing and learning about yesterday in the Last Frontier of Texas.”
Alpine: Sul Ross State University Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library Documents Dept. This institution participates in the TSLAC State Government Publications Depository Program http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/statepubs/depositories.html.
ALVIN
Alvin: Alvin Museum Society Cummins-Smith House, Marguerite Rogers House Museum, Twin Oaks Cited by Tex Assn Museums
Alvin: Nolan Ryan Exhibit A baseball exhibit, chronicles the life and baseball career of Alvin's favorite son in many state-of-the-art exhibits. Cited by Tex Assn Museums
ALVORD
Alvord: Alvord Public Library / Portal to Texas History: Local history materials from town, church and business records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. / View the Alvord Public Library materials.
If you get this information afterward, do still contribute the information in anticipation of the next edition.
Will Howard
willstexana@yahoo.com
At present the Directory contains about 800 institutions spread over 125 pages. It is arranged by city. Intended for electronic use, address, telephone, etc are not supplied here, rather the most up to date information will be on the web sites supplied. Each entry often, but not always, contains
City'sName: Institution, web site, Revelevant Department Name, more specific web site address, summary description of depository collection strengths (some a mere line, some an inch or two, and some a page in length).
If you are readers of "Will's Texana Monthly, you've noticed, I'm compiling a Will's Texana Annual, a cumulation of the Monthly with some extra added attractions, including a "Directory of Texana Depositories in Texas ," and a variety of other works totalling about 600 pages.
Does your local institution have a mentionable collection? What about your neighbors?
The Directory is presently intended to include those institutions with Texana "as a subject matter," although I vary. Some institutions are small, some large. My descriptions vary - from a mere institutional mention, or up to a page; some are mine as original, some are taken from web sites, and some offered upon query from the institutions.
One method I used to collect information was to use some pre-existing organizational lists: including the institutional membership of Archivists of the Houston Area, the RHRD depository list, the institutional membership list of the Texas Association of Museums, the list of Texas State government depositories, the list of contributors to TARO, the list of contributors to UNT's Portal to Texas history. I've queried TLA's ALHRT listserv and several other units of TLA, as well as the Metropolitan Archivists (of DFW), the San Antonio Regional Archivists, and the Austin Archivists Association, and the Border Regional Archivist Group (BRAG). I visited a number of public, special, and academic library web sites, but certainly not all. And etc.
While the list has lengthened, it is certainly not comprehensive. I choose to not apply "too strict" a definition of inclusion or exclusion. Yes, the broadest definition would be maybe several thousand, but well, even I wish to enjoy a separate life. I'll collect what I collect and go from there, there after.
If you wish to email to me a separate description of your collection, do please do so. It'd be helpful if a website were named. I'm at willstexana @yahoo.com
If you wish to direct me to other depositories or provide a description of those, please do so.
SAMPLE ENTRIES (unedited as of 1/25) see below
Alpine: Sul Ross State University Museum of the Big Bend http://www.sulross.edu/~museum/ . Includes artifacts of the Big Bend region, including the Native Americans, Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans who inhabited the area. “For more than 70 years the Museum of the Big Bend has been collecting and exhibiting artifacts of the vast Big Bend region. Encompassing the Davis Mountains to the north and the borderlands of Mexico, the Big Bend has been inhabited for over 11,000 years. Throughout that time, four distinct cultures emerged and shaped the history and heritage of the region. Together with the Center for Big Bend Studies, the Museum of the Big Bend's goal is to capture this human history that reflects contributions of the Native Americans, the Spanish, the Mexicans and the Anglo-Americans. Today at the Museum of the Big Bend, both adults and children enjoy experiencing and learning about yesterday in the Last Frontier of Texas.”
Alpine: Sul Ross State University Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library Documents Dept. This institution participates in the TSLAC State Government Publications Depository Program http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/statepubs/depositories.html.
ALVIN
Alvin: Alvin Museum Society Cummins-Smith House, Marguerite Rogers House Museum, Twin Oaks Cited by Tex Assn Museums
Alvin: Nolan Ryan Exhibit A baseball exhibit, chronicles the life and baseball career of Alvin's favorite son in many state-of-the-art exhibits. Cited by Tex Assn Museums
ALVORD
Alvord: Alvord Public Library / Portal to Texas History: Local history materials from town, church and business records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. / View the Alvord Public Library materials.
If you get this information afterward, do still contribute the information in anticipation of the next edition.
Will Howard
willstexana@yahoo.com
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Texas History Teachers Conference at Huntsville Jan 2007
The 2nd Annual Texas History Conference
January 12 & 13, 2007
Education Service Center, Region VI
Huntsville, Texas
contact:
Bill Shuttlesworth, Social Studies Specialist, ESC Region VI
3332 Montgomery Road
Huntsville, Texas 77340
(936) 435-8338
bshuttlesworth@esc6.net
January 12 & 13, 2007
Education Service Center, Region VI
Huntsville, Texas
contact:
Bill Shuttlesworth, Social Studies Specialist, ESC Region VI
3332 Montgomery Road
Huntsville, Texas 77340
(936) 435-8338
bshuttlesworth@esc6.net
Will's Texas Calendar 2007
WILL’S TEXAS CALENDAR 2007
JANUARY
January 13-14, 2007: Southwest Book, Photo, and Paper Show in Austin. www.southwestbookshow.com .
January 20, 2007 Houston Museum District Open House www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org for 9 major institutions: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, The Children's Museum of Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Health Museum, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Pioneer Memorial Log House Museum,
and more than forty others. Ride a bus for free to get around.
January 22-27, 2007 “Angelo Civic Theatre will host the inaugural Feast of Santa Angela, celebrating the twin spirits of creativity and generosity that have shaped our city since its founding in the late 1860s. All throughout this momentous week there will be numerous opportunities to celebrate art, education, history and the spirit of giving that makes San Angelo a place like no other!” There’ll be books, arts, a celebration of Santa Angela, history, gourmet foods, a bloodless bullfight by high professionals, and an ecumenical worship service. Judged by its full press release from the Angelo Civic Theater, the week’s events are sensitive, insightful, and to the marrow what community is about. If you don’t get there ask Alicia Gibson - Event Chairperson - gibbermd@hotmail.com – to share what she did. She should be proud. www.angelocivictheatre.com WH
FEBRUARY
February: County Historical Commissions are preparing their annual reports for the Texas Historical Commission http://www.thc.state.tx.us/forms/ctycommissions/
February 1-2, 2007: Victoria College’s John W. Stormont Lectures on South Texas http://www.victoriacollege.edu/dept/socsci/
February 5-6 Texas Library Association Legislative Day, Registration - Hotel - Additional Information: http://www.txla.org/html/legis/legday.html
February 14-17, 2007: Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations in Albuquerque, NM at Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, 330 Tijeras, Albuquerque, NM 87102, Phone: 281. 455. 3289 http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
February 16-17, 2007: East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting in Beaumont, Texas. http://www.easttexashistorical.org/events/springmeeting.html
February 17 – March 18: Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Possibly the largest historical re-enactment. Agriculture, education, entertainment, Western heritage. http://hlsr.com/
February 19, 2007: DRT Texas History Forum commemorates start of Alamo siege.
“The February 23rd History Forum features Paula Allen, Dr. Ron Tyler, and James Bevill. Dr. Tyler will speak on bird’s eye views of Texas cities and the online exhibit prepared by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, http://www.birdseyeviews.org/ . Paula Allen will compare San Antonio as it was in the 19th century with the city as it is now. James Bevill, Vice President of the Texas Numismatic Association, has been working with Dr. Bruce Winders, Historian and Curator at the Alamo, to create an exhibit about Republic of Texas currency and his presentation is titled “A Paper Trail across the Republic of Texas,”a visual journey through the paper money used by the Republic of Texas (1836-1846) in which he relates the currency to early politics, the location of the capital, and other significant events and key personalities of the period.” http://www.drtl.org/Newsletters/Vol4no1.pdf
MARCH
March 1-3, 2007: Texas Classroom Teachers Association Convention http://texasteacher.org/index.html
March 2, 2007: “Texas Week” http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/txweek.html
March 8- 10, 2007: Texas State Historical Association’s 111th Annual Meeting - San Antonio http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/about/meeting/upcoming.html “This year, joint sessions with other historical organizations include the Texas Catholic Historical Society, http://www.onr.com/user/cat/TCHS.htm, Texas Oral History Association, http://www.baylor.edu/toha/, the Texas State Historical Commission, http://www.thc.state.tx.us/, the Texas Baptist Historical Society, http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?&pid=1134&srcid=1087, Texas Archeological Society, http://www.txarch.org/, and Texas Parks & Wildlife, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ . Also scheduled are the Handbook of Texas workshop, the Quarterly and publications workshop, the business meeting, and various committee meetings. In addition, the Webb Society Annual Meeting http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/webb/ will take place Friday with chapter reports and the presentation of four papers.”
March 2, 2007: Texas Independence Day, Texas Flag Day, Sam Houston Day
March 11-17, 2007: http://sunshineweek.org/ The National Society of Newspaper Editors across the state and nation take this opportunity to test their and the government’s abilities to successfully request government documentation to highlight the Freedom of Information options and requirements.
March 23-24, 2007: Best Southwest BookFest in DeSoto http://www.bestsouthwestbookfest.org/
March 23-24, 2007 - Texas Map Society spring meeting in Nacogdoches. http://libraries.uta.edu/txmapsociety/futuremg.html
On March 24 2007: Glenwood Cemetery Honored Internees Honored by DRT. “The Daughters of the Republic of Texas District VI will be honoring up to 70 Citizens, Defenders and Veterans of the Republic of Texas who are buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in Houston and includes notables such as Anson Jones, Thomas Lubbock, George Herman, Mrs. Augustus Allen and numerous other recognizable names from the Republic of Texas era. The ceremony will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church , 800 Houston Ave. (corner of Washington Ave. ) at 2 pm, Saturday, March 24, just a few blocks from Glenwood cemetery. Many living descendants of the honorees will be there. Please mark your calendar for March 24, 2007 and plan to attend this ceremony with us.” Anita Cooper, District VI Representative, DRT, ajcooper@cybergal.com , 409-945-6849.
March 24-25, 2007: 22nd Annual Goliad Massacre - Fort Defiance Living History Program. “A re-creation of the occupation of the fort by Col. Fannin and the Goliad Massacre. The only event of its kind in the State of Texas.” http://www.presidiolabahia.org/living_history.htm
March 30-31, 2007: West Texas Historical Association Annual Conference in Abilene. http://swco.ttu.edu/WestTexas/index.htm
APRIL
April 2007: National Poetry Month
April 5-7, 2007: Texas Folklore Society’s 91st Annual Meeting - in San Antonio at the Omni San Antonio. http://texasfolkloresociety.org
April 6-7, 2007: Junior Historians Annual Meeting & History Fair http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/jh/
April 11-15, 2007: Texas Library Association Annual Conference at the San Antonio Omni Hotel http://www.txla.org “Strong Libraries, Strong Communities”
April 12-14, 2007: Annual Historic Preservation Conference, sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission, in Austin at the Lakeway Inn and Conference Center http://webcalendar.thc.state.tx.us/home/index.asp
April 13-14, 2007: Texas Institute of Letters annual meeting in Dallas. NEW WEBSITE NOTICE! http://www.smu.edu/english/creativewriting/The_Texas_Institute_of_Letters.htm
April 13-15, 2007: Sons of the Repubilc of Texas, Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, Radisson Hotel Corpus Christi Beach. http://www.srttexas.org/
April 14, 2007: Battle of San Jacinto Symposium in Houston at the UH Hilton, sponsored by the Friends of San Jacinto Battleground 281 496-1488 sjba@usa.net http://www.friendsofsanjacinto.org
April 15-21: National Coin Week (annually 3rd week of April) “Texas Numismatic Association and the Bellaire Coin Club collaborated with the Dallas Historical Society, the Friends of the San Jacinto Battleground and Sterling Bank to create a historical artifact and paper money exhibit on the Republic of Texas 1836-1846. This is Sterling Bank’s 6th annual Republic of Texas exhibit which celebrates Texas history.” (This exhibit at Sterling Bank in Houston on Gessner) Info: Submitted by James P. Bevill - Texas Numismatic Association-1st V.P 713-993-1505 - mercury225@sbcglobal.net
April 17 -20, 2007: Texas Association of Museums annual conference in Austin at the Doubletree. Theme: Becoming Somewhere: Museums in the Mix http://www.io.com/~tam/ Texas Association of Museum “represents over 260 museums and 600 individuals throughout Texas and across the nation. The largest state museum association in the nation, TAM provides a network among museums, improves the level of professionalism within the museum community, increases the use and enjoyment of museums by the public, and serves as an information clearinghouse about museums.”
April 19, 2007: The Texas Writers Conference is being held on the Schreiner University campus. Featured guest: Tim Hazell (Sweden/San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) is our featured artist / writer / performer. Writer in residence for a week. Details and schedules TBA. “The Texas Writers Conference features writers from all genres and is held each spring. This event gives the community, students, faculty and staff an opportunity to interact with writers from across the country. Writers showcased in the past include Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo, Robert Flynn, Red Steagall, Buck Ramsey, N’Tazake Shange, Kinky Friedman, Ish Kundawala and many more. The event includes afternoon workshops, an open mike, and an evening reading by the showcased writer or panel of writers.” http://www.schreiner.edu/conferences/writers.html
April 20-22, 2007 - Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art's 5th Annual Spring Symposium in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center. http://www.caseta.org/news.html
April 21, 2007: San Jacinto Day Official Commemoration at the Battleground
April 21, 2007 - Permian Basin Historical Society Spring Meeting at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas. http://www.permianhistoricalsociety.org/
April 21, 2007: 7th Annual North Texas Book Festival in Denton, at 321 E. McKinney, Denton Civic Center. http://www.ntbf.org/
April 22, 2007: Battle of San Jacinto Triathlon
April 24-25, 2007: The HoustonAssociation of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) Annual Conference “Making It Happen!” in Houston (actually in Stafford) at the Stafford Centre. http://conf.armahouston.org/
April 27, 2007: Western Writers Conference, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/april.php
April 27, 2007: Texas Women’s History Network, first annual conference, at Rice University.
April 27-29, 2007: Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association – Spring Conference, “Out in the West Texas town of El Paso.” TOMFRA is almost fifty years old. http://www.tomfra.org/
April 28, 2007 - the 37th Annual Ranch Day at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ranchhc/home.htm.
April 26-28, 2007 - Texas Tech University Center for the Southwest and the College of Education, Bilingual Education and Diversity Studies Program - Conference on Hispanics in the Southwest.
April 27-28, 2007: Texas History Day, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/thd/
MAY
May, 2007: National Preservation Month
May 4, 2007: Literary Lubbock- A Benefit Dinner and Evening with Southwestern Authors. http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/News/Literary%20Lubbock%20invite.pdf
May 5, 2007: Cinco de Mayo
May 5, 2007: Friends of Southwestern Art Annual Luncheon at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/may.php
May 19, 2007: Looking for Mules in all the High Places: The Cochran County Historical Commission and Texas’ Last Frontier Museum, in collaboration with the Bailey County Historical Commission, Hockley County Historical Commission and the Muleshoe Heritage Center, will sponsor a nighttime stargazing party at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge at Paul’s Lake, within the grounds of the refuge east of Highway 214. (H-Texas)
May 24-June 2, 2007: Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville.
May 30-June2, 2007: Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting. In Oklahoma City. http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/Meeting.htm
JUNE
June 1-2, 2007: Summer Houston Postcard & Paper Show, The Arabia Shrine Center, Houston Texas http://www.houstonshow.com/
June 8-10, 2007: Texas Folklife Festival. 36th Annual Texas Folklife Festival—Deep in
the Heart of Texans! www.texasfolklifefestival.org
June 8-9, 2007: Fort Worth Postcard & Paper Show, Lockheed-Martin Recrteation Center, Fort Worth Texas http://www.houstonshow.com/
June 9-16, 2007: Texas Archeological Society’s summer school will be conducted at Menard using the site of the mid1700’s Presidio de San Saba site. Dr. Tamra Walker leads.
June 12-16, 2007: Western Writers of American Annual Conference in Springfield, Missouri. http://www.westernwriters.org/2007_convention.htm
June 15–17, 2007: Agents & Editors Conference, Writers’ League of Texas http://www.writersleague.org/agents2006.htm .
June 19, 2007: Juneteenth: Emancipation Day http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/juneteenth.html
June 23-24, 2007: Latino Book and Family Festival in Dallas/Fort Worth http://www.latinofestivals.com/
JULY
July 27-29, 2007: Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, featuring Joyce Carol Oates. Hilton DFW Grapevine, Texas http://www.mayborninstitute.unt.edu/mw_conf.htm
AUGUST
August 3-4: Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Show. Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association in Denver. http://www.rmaba.org/
August 3-5, 2007: Western Film Festival, Don Graham speaking. http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/august.php
August 10-11, 2007: German-Texan Heritage Society Annual Meeting and Convention, San Antonio, 512-482-0927.
August 27, 2007: Lyndon B. Johnson Day
SEPTEMBER
September 1, 2007 Brady: World Championship Barbeque Goat Cook-Off & Arts & Crafts Fair in Brady. Contact: dpcofc@hotmail.com .
September 1-2, 2007: 11th Annual Palomino Fest in Uvalde. www.palominofest.com
September 15, 2007: The Sons of the Republic of Texas requests your presence to honor Texian Navy Day at 11:00 AM at the Texas State Cemetery 909 Navasota Street - Austin, Texas. Keynote speaker will be The Honorable Jerry Patterson, Commissioner, Texas General Land Office, and Governor Perry's representative to the Texas Navy Association Board of Directors, Galveston, Texas. Contact David Hanover, Chairman, Texas Navy Committee, SRT: dhanover@suddenlink.net
September 15, 2007: Texian Navy Day Saturday, September 15, 2007, honoring the Texian Navy for its service to the Republic of Texas. (see: Texas Govt Code 662.051establishing September’s third Saturday of each September.
September 15-16, 2007: Austin Book and Paper Show. At the Wyndam Garden Hotel in Austin. 3401 S. I-35 (Woodward Exit).
September 20, 2007: Preservations Texas’ Preservation Roundtable, in Abilene. With the National Trust for Historic Preservation at the Abilene Preservation League’s headquarters. email info@preservationtexas.org or call 512.472.0102. http://www.preservationtexas.org/events/index.htm
September 20-23, 2007: Texas Pecan Festival in Groves.
September 22, 2007 - Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta / Franklin Mountains State Park Lone Star Legacy at Tom Mays Park. Focus on the animals and plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. http://www.chihuahuandesert.org/ .
September 25-29, 2007: Abilene: 7th Annual West Texas Book & Music Festival in Abilene. www.abilenetx.com/apl . Aannual, 4th weekend in September.
September 27-19, 2007: East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting at Fredonia Hotel in Nacogdoches. http://www.easttexashistorical.org/events/fallmeeting.html
September 28-30, 2007: Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Annual Conference in San Angelo at Angelo State University. NOTICE NEW WEBSITE http://www.austincc.edu/tacwt/index.html (old sites: http://library.stmarytx.edu/tacwt/ http://www.tacwt.org/)
September 28, 2007: Texas Heritage Living History Day, as declared by the Texas Music Heritage Foundation, formerly down on the Guadalupe but now inside the city limits and all at the Schreiner University in Kerrville. Be looking for folks in period clothing and textiles, with odd accoutrements, playing old time heritage music and maybe dancing a jig or folklorico, riding horses, spouting funny talk, and causing a musical dust up or two. Just to get your attention. http://www.texasheritagemusic.org/
September 29-30, 2007: Latino Book & Family Festival in Houston. http://www.latinofestivals.com/
September 28-October 21, 2007: Texas State Fair http://www.bigtex.com
OCTOBER
October: Texas Archeology Month http://www.thc.state.tx.us/archeology/aatam.html
October: Archives Week in several locations in the state.
October 6, 2007: Permian Basin Fall Meeting in Stanton. http://www.permianhistoricalsociety.org/
October 3-6, 2007: Western History Association 47th Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/conf/confinfo.html
October 5-7, 2007: Friends of the Rosenberg Library Used Book Sale in Galveston.
October 6, 2007: Panhandle-Plains Folklife Festival. http://www.panhandleplains.org/
October 6-7, 2007: 14th Annual North Texas Book & Paper Show. Sponsored by the North Texas Booksellers Association. Will Rogers Memorial Complex in Fort Worth, Texas. Chris Wright at 972-937-6502 or email: bookshow@ntxbooksellers.org http://www.ntxbooksellers.org/
October 10 - 13, 2007: Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society Convention, Houston Texas - at the Houston Hilton Westchase. See http://www.sphtsannualmeeting.org/ for details on the convention and visit www.rosenbergrrmuseum.org
October 11 - 14, 2007: Austin Steam Train Association meeting, Austin, Texas.
October 12-13, 2007: Fire Ant Festival in Marshall.
October 18-21, 2007: 12th Annual Texas Butterfly Festival in Mission. www.texasbutterfly.com . Annual, 3rd weekend in October.
October 26-28, 2007: The Texas Archeological Society's 78th Annual Meeting will be held in San Antonio. http://txarch.org/
October 29, 2007: Celebration of the birth of Texas hero, Juan Seguin.
NOVEMBER
November? __, 2007: South Texas Historical Association Annual Fall Meeting. http://archives.tamuk.edu/STHA.html
November __, 2007: Museum of Printing History Annual Rare Book Fair, http://www.printingmuseum.org
November 1, 2007: Tea: A Lecture of History & Etiquette. Farmers Branch Historical Park. Contact: Barbara Judkins, 972-919-8731, barbara.judkins@farmersbranch.info
November 2-4, 2007: Bookworm Bash in Addison.
November 3, 2007 - Golden Spur Luncheon and 30th Annual National Golden Spur Dinner at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ranchhc/home.htm
November 3-4, 2007: Texas Book Festival http://www.texasbookfestival.org/
November 6-7, 2007: North Texas Book & Paper Show, in Fort Worth, with over 60 dealers showing Used and Rare titles in many specialties with a significant number showing Texana titles. http://ntxbooksellers.org/ Contact: bookshow@ntxbooksellers.org .
November 7-11, 2007: American Literary Translators Association 30th Conference will be in Dallas/Richardson, Texas http://www.literarytranslators.org/index.html
November 9-11, 2007: Texas State Reading Association 36th Annual State Literacy Conference. In El Paso, TX http://www.tsra.us/
November 9-10: 4th Annual Books on the Bosque. Sponsored by the Bosque Conservatory in Clifton.
November 10, 2007: 5th Annual Houston Book Fair. Museum of Printing History in Houston, 1324 W. Clay. http://www.printingmuseum.org/ 713 522 4652
November 11, 2007: Veterans’ Day, Celebrate Freedom Week
November 15, 2007: Awards for Excellence benefiting the Dallas Historical Society. http://www.dallashistory.org/about/calendar.htm
November 29 - December 1 & Dec. 6-8, 2007: 24th Annual Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes in Jefferson.
November 21-December 31, 2007: Wonderland of Lights in Marshall.
DECEMBER
December 8, 2007: Bastrop’s Historic Homes Tour
December 9, 2007: Brazosport’s Holiday Tour of Homes
December 31, 2007: Marshall’s Wonderland of Lights last day.
JANUARY
January 13-14, 2007: Southwest Book, Photo, and Paper Show in Austin. www.southwestbookshow.com .
January 20, 2007 Houston Museum District Open House www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org for 9 major institutions: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, The Children's Museum of Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Health Museum, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Pioneer Memorial Log House Museum,
and more than forty others. Ride a bus for free to get around.
January 22-27, 2007 “Angelo Civic Theatre will host the inaugural Feast of Santa Angela, celebrating the twin spirits of creativity and generosity that have shaped our city since its founding in the late 1860s. All throughout this momentous week there will be numerous opportunities to celebrate art, education, history and the spirit of giving that makes San Angelo a place like no other!” There’ll be books, arts, a celebration of Santa Angela, history, gourmet foods, a bloodless bullfight by high professionals, and an ecumenical worship service. Judged by its full press release from the Angelo Civic Theater, the week’s events are sensitive, insightful, and to the marrow what community is about. If you don’t get there ask Alicia Gibson - Event Chairperson - gibbermd@hotmail.com – to share what she did. She should be proud. www.angelocivictheatre.com WH
FEBRUARY
February: County Historical Commissions are preparing their annual reports for the Texas Historical Commission http://www.thc.state.tx.us/forms/ctycommissions/
February 1-2, 2007: Victoria College’s John W. Stormont Lectures on South Texas http://www.victoriacollege.edu/dept/socsci/
February 5-6 Texas Library Association Legislative Day, Registration - Hotel - Additional Information: http://www.txla.org/html/legis/legday.html
February 14-17, 2007: Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations in Albuquerque, NM at Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, 330 Tijeras, Albuquerque, NM 87102, Phone: 281. 455. 3289 http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
February 16-17, 2007: East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting in Beaumont, Texas. http://www.easttexashistorical.org/events/springmeeting.html
February 17 – March 18: Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Possibly the largest historical re-enactment. Agriculture, education, entertainment, Western heritage. http://hlsr.com/
February 19, 2007: DRT Texas History Forum commemorates start of Alamo siege.
“The February 23rd History Forum features Paula Allen, Dr. Ron Tyler, and James Bevill. Dr. Tyler will speak on bird’s eye views of Texas cities and the online exhibit prepared by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, http://www.birdseyeviews.org/ . Paula Allen will compare San Antonio as it was in the 19th century with the city as it is now. James Bevill, Vice President of the Texas Numismatic Association, has been working with Dr. Bruce Winders, Historian and Curator at the Alamo, to create an exhibit about Republic of Texas currency and his presentation is titled “A Paper Trail across the Republic of Texas,”a visual journey through the paper money used by the Republic of Texas (1836-1846) in which he relates the currency to early politics, the location of the capital, and other significant events and key personalities of the period.” http://www.drtl.org/Newsletters/Vol4no1.pdf
MARCH
March 1-3, 2007: Texas Classroom Teachers Association Convention http://texasteacher.org/index.html
March 2, 2007: “Texas Week” http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/txweek.html
March 8- 10, 2007: Texas State Historical Association’s 111th Annual Meeting - San Antonio http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/about/meeting/upcoming.html “This year, joint sessions with other historical organizations include the Texas Catholic Historical Society, http://www.onr.com/user/cat/TCHS.htm, Texas Oral History Association, http://www.baylor.edu/toha/, the Texas State Historical Commission, http://www.thc.state.tx.us/, the Texas Baptist Historical Society, http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?&pid=1134&srcid=1087, Texas Archeological Society, http://www.txarch.org/, and Texas Parks & Wildlife, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ . Also scheduled are the Handbook of Texas workshop, the Quarterly and publications workshop, the business meeting, and various committee meetings. In addition, the Webb Society Annual Meeting http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/webb/ will take place Friday with chapter reports and the presentation of four papers.”
March 2, 2007: Texas Independence Day, Texas Flag Day, Sam Houston Day
March 11-17, 2007: http://sunshineweek.org/ The National Society of Newspaper Editors across the state and nation take this opportunity to test their and the government’s abilities to successfully request government documentation to highlight the Freedom of Information options and requirements.
March 23-24, 2007: Best Southwest BookFest in DeSoto http://www.bestsouthwestbookfest.org/
March 23-24, 2007 - Texas Map Society spring meeting in Nacogdoches. http://libraries.uta.edu/txmapsociety/futuremg.html
On March 24 2007: Glenwood Cemetery Honored Internees Honored by DRT. “The Daughters of the Republic of Texas District VI will be honoring up to 70 Citizens, Defenders and Veterans of the Republic of Texas who are buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in Houston and includes notables such as Anson Jones, Thomas Lubbock, George Herman, Mrs. Augustus Allen and numerous other recognizable names from the Republic of Texas era. The ceremony will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church , 800 Houston Ave. (corner of Washington Ave. ) at 2 pm, Saturday, March 24, just a few blocks from Glenwood cemetery. Many living descendants of the honorees will be there. Please mark your calendar for March 24, 2007 and plan to attend this ceremony with us.” Anita Cooper, District VI Representative, DRT, ajcooper@cybergal.com , 409-945-6849.
March 24-25, 2007: 22nd Annual Goliad Massacre - Fort Defiance Living History Program. “A re-creation of the occupation of the fort by Col. Fannin and the Goliad Massacre. The only event of its kind in the State of Texas.” http://www.presidiolabahia.org/living_history.htm
March 30-31, 2007: West Texas Historical Association Annual Conference in Abilene. http://swco.ttu.edu/WestTexas/index.htm
APRIL
April 2007: National Poetry Month
April 5-7, 2007: Texas Folklore Society’s 91st Annual Meeting - in San Antonio at the Omni San Antonio. http://texasfolkloresociety.org
April 6-7, 2007: Junior Historians Annual Meeting & History Fair http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/jh/
April 11-15, 2007: Texas Library Association Annual Conference at the San Antonio Omni Hotel http://www.txla.org “Strong Libraries, Strong Communities”
April 12-14, 2007: Annual Historic Preservation Conference, sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission, in Austin at the Lakeway Inn and Conference Center http://webcalendar.thc.state.tx.us/home/index.asp
April 13-14, 2007: Texas Institute of Letters annual meeting in Dallas. NEW WEBSITE NOTICE! http://www.smu.edu/english/creativewriting/The_Texas_Institute_of_Letters.htm
April 13-15, 2007: Sons of the Repubilc of Texas, Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, Radisson Hotel Corpus Christi Beach. http://www.srttexas.org/
April 14, 2007: Battle of San Jacinto Symposium in Houston at the UH Hilton, sponsored by the Friends of San Jacinto Battleground 281 496-1488 sjba@usa.net http://www.friendsofsanjacinto.org
April 15-21: National Coin Week (annually 3rd week of April) “Texas Numismatic Association and the Bellaire Coin Club collaborated with the Dallas Historical Society, the Friends of the San Jacinto Battleground and Sterling Bank to create a historical artifact and paper money exhibit on the Republic of Texas 1836-1846. This is Sterling Bank’s 6th annual Republic of Texas exhibit which celebrates Texas history.” (This exhibit at Sterling Bank in Houston on Gessner) Info: Submitted by James P. Bevill - Texas Numismatic Association-1st V.P 713-993-1505 - mercury225@sbcglobal.net
April 17 -20, 2007: Texas Association of Museums annual conference in Austin at the Doubletree. Theme: Becoming Somewhere: Museums in the Mix http://www.io.com/~tam/ Texas Association of Museum “represents over 260 museums and 600 individuals throughout Texas and across the nation. The largest state museum association in the nation, TAM provides a network among museums, improves the level of professionalism within the museum community, increases the use and enjoyment of museums by the public, and serves as an information clearinghouse about museums.”
April 19, 2007: The Texas Writers Conference is being held on the Schreiner University campus. Featured guest: Tim Hazell (Sweden/San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) is our featured artist / writer / performer. Writer in residence for a week. Details and schedules TBA. “The Texas Writers Conference features writers from all genres and is held each spring. This event gives the community, students, faculty and staff an opportunity to interact with writers from across the country. Writers showcased in the past include Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo, Robert Flynn, Red Steagall, Buck Ramsey, N’Tazake Shange, Kinky Friedman, Ish Kundawala and many more. The event includes afternoon workshops, an open mike, and an evening reading by the showcased writer or panel of writers.” http://www.schreiner.edu/conferences/writers.html
April 20-22, 2007 - Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art's 5th Annual Spring Symposium in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center. http://www.caseta.org/news.html
April 21, 2007: San Jacinto Day Official Commemoration at the Battleground
April 21, 2007 - Permian Basin Historical Society Spring Meeting at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas. http://www.permianhistoricalsociety.org/
April 21, 2007: 7th Annual North Texas Book Festival in Denton, at 321 E. McKinney, Denton Civic Center. http://www.ntbf.org/
April 22, 2007: Battle of San Jacinto Triathlon
April 24-25, 2007: The HoustonAssociation of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) Annual Conference “Making It Happen!” in Houston (actually in Stafford) at the Stafford Centre. http://conf.armahouston.org/
April 27, 2007: Western Writers Conference, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/april.php
April 27, 2007: Texas Women’s History Network, first annual conference, at Rice University.
April 27-29, 2007: Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association – Spring Conference, “Out in the West Texas town of El Paso.” TOMFRA is almost fifty years old. http://www.tomfra.org/
April 28, 2007 - the 37th Annual Ranch Day at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ranchhc/home.htm.
April 26-28, 2007 - Texas Tech University Center for the Southwest and the College of Education, Bilingual Education and Diversity Studies Program - Conference on Hispanics in the Southwest.
April 27-28, 2007: Texas History Day, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/education/thd/
MAY
May, 2007: National Preservation Month
May 4, 2007: Literary Lubbock- A Benefit Dinner and Evening with Southwestern Authors. http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/News/Literary%20Lubbock%20invite.pdf
May 5, 2007: Cinco de Mayo
May 5, 2007: Friends of Southwestern Art Annual Luncheon at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/may.php
May 19, 2007: Looking for Mules in all the High Places: The Cochran County Historical Commission and Texas’ Last Frontier Museum, in collaboration with the Bailey County Historical Commission, Hockley County Historical Commission and the Muleshoe Heritage Center, will sponsor a nighttime stargazing party at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge at Paul’s Lake, within the grounds of the refuge east of Highway 214. (H-Texas)
May 24-June 2, 2007: Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville.
May 30-June2, 2007: Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting. In Oklahoma City. http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/Meeting.htm
JUNE
June 1-2, 2007: Summer Houston Postcard & Paper Show, The Arabia Shrine Center, Houston Texas http://www.houstonshow.com/
June 8-10, 2007: Texas Folklife Festival. 36th Annual Texas Folklife Festival—Deep in
the Heart of Texans! www.texasfolklifefestival.org
June 8-9, 2007: Fort Worth Postcard & Paper Show, Lockheed-Martin Recrteation Center, Fort Worth Texas http://www.houstonshow.com/
June 9-16, 2007: Texas Archeological Society’s summer school will be conducted at Menard using the site of the mid1700’s Presidio de San Saba site. Dr. Tamra Walker leads.
June 12-16, 2007: Western Writers of American Annual Conference in Springfield, Missouri. http://www.westernwriters.org/2007_convention.htm
June 15–17, 2007: Agents & Editors Conference, Writers’ League of Texas http://www.writersleague.org/agents2006.htm .
June 19, 2007: Juneteenth: Emancipation Day http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/juneteenth.html
June 23-24, 2007: Latino Book and Family Festival in Dallas/Fort Worth http://www.latinofestivals.com/
JULY
July 27-29, 2007: Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, featuring Joyce Carol Oates. Hilton DFW Grapevine, Texas http://www.mayborninstitute.unt.edu/mw_conf.htm
AUGUST
August 3-4: Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Show. Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association in Denver. http://www.rmaba.org/
August 3-5, 2007: Western Film Festival, Don Graham speaking. http://www.panhandleplains.org/calendar/august.php
August 10-11, 2007: German-Texan Heritage Society Annual Meeting and Convention, San Antonio, 512-482-0927.
August 27, 2007: Lyndon B. Johnson Day
SEPTEMBER
September 1, 2007 Brady: World Championship Barbeque Goat Cook-Off & Arts & Crafts Fair in Brady. Contact: dpcofc@hotmail.com .
September 1-2, 2007: 11th Annual Palomino Fest in Uvalde. www.palominofest.com
September 15, 2007: The Sons of the Republic of Texas requests your presence to honor Texian Navy Day at 11:00 AM at the Texas State Cemetery 909 Navasota Street - Austin, Texas. Keynote speaker will be The Honorable Jerry Patterson, Commissioner, Texas General Land Office, and Governor Perry's representative to the Texas Navy Association Board of Directors, Galveston, Texas. Contact David Hanover, Chairman, Texas Navy Committee, SRT: dhanover@suddenlink.net
September 15, 2007: Texian Navy Day Saturday, September 15, 2007, honoring the Texian Navy for its service to the Republic of Texas. (see: Texas Govt Code 662.051establishing September’s third Saturday of each September.
September 15-16, 2007: Austin Book and Paper Show. At the Wyndam Garden Hotel in Austin. 3401 S. I-35 (Woodward Exit).
September 20, 2007: Preservations Texas’ Preservation Roundtable, in Abilene. With the National Trust for Historic Preservation at the Abilene Preservation League’s headquarters. email info@preservationtexas.org or call 512.472.0102. http://www.preservationtexas.org/events/index.htm
September 20-23, 2007: Texas Pecan Festival in Groves.
September 22, 2007 - Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta / Franklin Mountains State Park Lone Star Legacy at Tom Mays Park. Focus on the animals and plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. http://www.chihuahuandesert.org/ .
September 25-29, 2007: Abilene: 7th Annual West Texas Book & Music Festival in Abilene. www.abilenetx.com/apl . Aannual, 4th weekend in September.
September 27-19, 2007: East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting at Fredonia Hotel in Nacogdoches. http://www.easttexashistorical.org/events/fallmeeting.html
September 28-30, 2007: Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Annual Conference in San Angelo at Angelo State University. NOTICE NEW WEBSITE http://www.austincc.edu/tacwt/index.html (old sites: http://library.stmarytx.edu/tacwt/ http://www.tacwt.org/)
September 28, 2007: Texas Heritage Living History Day, as declared by the Texas Music Heritage Foundation, formerly down on the Guadalupe but now inside the city limits and all at the Schreiner University in Kerrville. Be looking for folks in period clothing and textiles, with odd accoutrements, playing old time heritage music and maybe dancing a jig or folklorico, riding horses, spouting funny talk, and causing a musical dust up or two. Just to get your attention. http://www.texasheritagemusic.org/
September 29-30, 2007: Latino Book & Family Festival in Houston. http://www.latinofestivals.com/
September 28-October 21, 2007: Texas State Fair http://www.bigtex.com
OCTOBER
October: Texas Archeology Month http://www.thc.state.tx.us/archeology/aatam.html
October: Archives Week in several locations in the state.
October 6, 2007: Permian Basin Fall Meeting in Stanton. http://www.permianhistoricalsociety.org/
October 3-6, 2007: Western History Association 47th Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/conf/confinfo.html
October 5-7, 2007: Friends of the Rosenberg Library Used Book Sale in Galveston.
October 6, 2007: Panhandle-Plains Folklife Festival. http://www.panhandleplains.org/
October 6-7, 2007: 14th Annual North Texas Book & Paper Show. Sponsored by the North Texas Booksellers Association. Will Rogers Memorial Complex in Fort Worth, Texas. Chris Wright at 972-937-6502 or email: bookshow@ntxbooksellers.org http://www.ntxbooksellers.org/
October 10 - 13, 2007: Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society Convention, Houston Texas - at the Houston Hilton Westchase. See http://www.sphtsannualmeeting.org/ for details on the convention and visit www.rosenbergrrmuseum.org
October 11 - 14, 2007: Austin Steam Train Association meeting, Austin, Texas.
October 12-13, 2007: Fire Ant Festival in Marshall.
October 18-21, 2007: 12th Annual Texas Butterfly Festival in Mission. www.texasbutterfly.com . Annual, 3rd weekend in October.
October 26-28, 2007: The Texas Archeological Society's 78th Annual Meeting will be held in San Antonio. http://txarch.org/
October 29, 2007: Celebration of the birth of Texas hero, Juan Seguin.
NOVEMBER
November? __, 2007: South Texas Historical Association Annual Fall Meeting. http://archives.tamuk.edu/STHA.html
November __, 2007: Museum of Printing History Annual Rare Book Fair, http://www.printingmuseum.org
November 1, 2007: Tea: A Lecture of History & Etiquette. Farmers Branch Historical Park. Contact: Barbara Judkins, 972-919-8731, barbara.judkins@farmersbranch.info
November 2-4, 2007: Bookworm Bash in Addison.
November 3, 2007 - Golden Spur Luncheon and 30th Annual National Golden Spur Dinner at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ranchhc/home.htm
November 3-4, 2007: Texas Book Festival http://www.texasbookfestival.org/
November 6-7, 2007: North Texas Book & Paper Show, in Fort Worth, with over 60 dealers showing Used and Rare titles in many specialties with a significant number showing Texana titles. http://ntxbooksellers.org/ Contact: bookshow@ntxbooksellers.org .
November 7-11, 2007: American Literary Translators Association 30th Conference will be in Dallas/Richardson, Texas http://www.literarytranslators.org/index.html
November 9-11, 2007: Texas State Reading Association 36th Annual State Literacy Conference. In El Paso, TX http://www.tsra.us/
November 9-10: 4th Annual Books on the Bosque. Sponsored by the Bosque Conservatory in Clifton.
November 10, 2007: 5th Annual Houston Book Fair. Museum of Printing History in Houston, 1324 W. Clay. http://www.printingmuseum.org/ 713 522 4652
November 11, 2007: Veterans’ Day, Celebrate Freedom Week
November 15, 2007: Awards for Excellence benefiting the Dallas Historical Society. http://www.dallashistory.org/about/calendar.htm
November 29 - December 1 & Dec. 6-8, 2007: 24th Annual Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes in Jefferson.
November 21-December 31, 2007: Wonderland of Lights in Marshall.
DECEMBER
December 8, 2007: Bastrop’s Historic Homes Tour
December 9, 2007: Brazosport’s Holiday Tour of Homes
December 31, 2007: Marshall’s Wonderland of Lights last day.
TSHA Texas History Awareness Workshop
"Topics will focus on teaching Texas history, working with our existing programs such as Junior Historians and/or Texas History Day, and other requested topics.
For more information, contact Terri Killen
by phone (512) 471-1525 or by e-mail."
See more at link
For more information, contact Terri Killen
by phone (512) 471-1525 or by e-mail."
See more at link
Texas Tides Teaching Project - National Council ... Social Studies
Texas Tides
"Texas Tides, originally called Tides in Early Texas History, was funded in 2002-2003 by a Texas Infrastructure Fund Board's (TIFF) LB-9-12 month competitive grant. Through this collaborative digital project, a platform was created for memory institutions, educators, and schools to work together to enhance learning experiences for students, to bridge gaps between academic disciplines, and to increase and promote virtual access to unique cultural collections. Highlights of the Tides in Early Texas History project include: " See more at above link.
OR
You can visit via SFASU the Texas Tides website
"Texas Tides, originally called Tides in Early Texas History, was funded in 2002-2003 by a Texas Infrastructure Fund Board's (TIFF) LB-9-12 month competitive grant. Through this collaborative digital project, a platform was created for memory institutions, educators, and schools to work together to enhance learning experiences for students, to bridge gaps between academic disciplines, and to increase and promote virtual access to unique cultural collections. Highlights of the Tides in Early Texas History project include: " See more at above link.
OR
You can visit via SFASU the Texas Tides website
TSHA Texas History Awareness Workshop July 2006
Texas State Historical Association
History Awareness Workshop
July 19-22, 2006, Lee College, Baytown
National History Day: In Pursuit of Excellence
"The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) and The University of Texas Center
for Studies in Texas History are proud to announce a Summer 2006 History
Awareness Workshop, National History Day: In Pursuit of Excellence. The
statewide conference is designed to prepare teachers, students and parents to produce
outstanding research projects using the National History Day model. Held in
Baytown, the conference will take place on Wednesday, July 19th through Saturday,
July 22nd at Lee College in partnership with the Lee College Honors Program, Goose
Creek Consolidated Independent School District, and the TSHA."
See more at link
History Awareness Workshop
July 19-22, 2006, Lee College, Baytown
National History Day: In Pursuit of Excellence
"The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) and The University of Texas Center
for Studies in Texas History are proud to announce a Summer 2006 History
Awareness Workshop, National History Day: In Pursuit of Excellence. The
statewide conference is designed to prepare teachers, students and parents to produce
outstanding research projects using the National History Day model. Held in
Baytown, the conference will take place on Wednesday, July 19th through Saturday,
July 22nd at Lee College in partnership with the Lee College Honors Program, Goose
Creek Consolidated Independent School District, and the TSHA."
See more at link
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