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American Folklore Society
Texas Folklife
East Texas
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Texas State Historical
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| The Texas Folklore Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and
sharing the folklore of Texas and the Southwest.
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The Texas Folklore Society's
2011 annual meeting
will be held in San Marcos on April 21-23, 2011.
Details will be posted here in January 2011 and in the January
Newsletter. Members who wish to present papers at the meeting, please
contact
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The Texas Folklore Society's
2010 annual meeting
was held in Abilene on April 1-3, 2010.
Members and friends enjoyed the program and the
fellowship. Some photographs from the meeting have been
posted
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 Kenneth W. Davis,
elected a
Fellow of the Texas folklore Society at the
TFS Centennial meeting in 2009, was honored, on April 2, 2010, at
the society's Abilene meeting, for his many years of
service as a member, contributor, mentor, Director, Vice-President, and
President of the Society.
He was presented with a plaque and certificate
proclaiming this honor, and his name was inscribed on a large plaque
listing the "Fellows of the Texas Folklore Society." Davis is the
fourteenth Fellow named since the founding of the TFS in 1909.
Secretary-Editor Ken Untiedt and newly-elected
President Mary Margaret Campbell spoke in tribute to Davis' contribution
to the TFS and to their own development as folklorists. Davis, a regular
contributor, was also on the program, delivering his paper, "Every Thing
but the Squeal - Hog Killing and Curing Meat in Texas."
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Correr del paisano translates as "messenger of his countrymen." To read more about the roadrunner,
the society's adopted emblem,
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