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2006 Fall Meeting
Fredonia Hotel
200 N. Fredonia
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
September 21-23, 2006
Reservations by September 1, please (936) 564-1234
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
Board of Directors Meeting
(No Association Luncheon) |
10:00 A.M.
Angelina Room |
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REGISTRATION - LOBBY
Click here for printable registration form
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1:00 P.M. |
| Silent Auction |
1:00 - 5:00 P.M. |
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SESSION I - A Tribute to Barry A. Crouch: A Texas Historian
Cary Wintz, Presiding
Texas Southern University |
1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
Banita Room |
PANELISTS
Donaly E. Brice, Texas State Library
Charles D. Spurlin, Victoria College
Kenneth W. Howell, Prairie View A&M University
James M. Smallwood, Oklahoma State University
Bill Stein, Nesbitt Memorial Library
Bruce Glasrud, Sul Ross University
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| MAX AND GEORGIANA LALE LECTURE SERIES |
7:30 P.M.
Grand Ballroom, University Center
Stephen F. Austin State University |
Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth
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For more information about the Lale Lecture click here.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 |
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| REGISTRATION - LOBBY |
8:00 A.M. |
| Silent Auction |
8:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. |
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SESSION II -Incorporating East Texas History and Culture into Fictional Narrative and Film
Fred Tarpley, Presiding
Texas A&M University -Commerce
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9:00-10:15 A.M.
Rusk Room |
Suzanne Morris, Houston , Texas
"Blending Texas History in Galveston , Wives and Mistresses,
and Clearharbour Trilogy"
Jim Ainsworth, Campbell, Texas
"Combining Family History and Local Culture through In the Rivers
Flow and Rivers Crossing "
Gail K Beil, Marshall , Texas
"The Great Debate: What Oprah Winfrey and Denzil Washington Found Out"
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SESSION III - A Joint Session with the Texas Folklore Society
Telling Our Stories: A Strategy for Preserving Local History and Folklore.
R.G. Dean, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
9:00-10:15 A.M.
Raguet Room |
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Jerry B. Lincecum, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
"Sixteen Years of " 'Telling Our Stories'" (TOS)
Peggy A. Redshaw, Austin College , Sherman , Texas
"TOS and the Common Schools of Grayson County "
Jo Ann Cross, Wolfe City , Texas
"Broken Star: The Story of a Heritage Quilt"
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SESSION IV –East Texas Graveyards
Dan K. Utley, Presiding
Austin
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9:00-10:15 A.M..
Angelina Room |
Gerron Hite , Texas Historical Commission, Austin
"Fence Me In: Historic Cemetery Fencing"
Anne Shelton, Texas Historical Commission, Austin
"RIP Guardians: Adopting Historic Texas Cemeteries"
Martha Ann Berryman, Rosanky
"East Texas Cemeteries: Observations from the Deep Woods"
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| Coffee Break |
10:15-10:45 A.M. |
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SESSION V – The Practice of Medicine in East Texas
Andrew Lannen, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
10:45 — 12:00 P.M.
Rusk Room |
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Cynthia Devlin, Stephen F. Austin Sate University
" East Texas Lumber Camps and Medical Care"
Barbara Heard-Mueller, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Rural Medicine in East Texas " |
Session VI - Texas Tides: A Growing Resource for East Texas History
Perky Beisel, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
10:45-12:00 P.M.
Raguet Room |
Rachel Galan, Digital Projects Department, SFASU
"An Introduction to the Texas Tides Site and its Applications for Historic Research"
Rhonda Williams, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Texas Tides: A Resource for Educators and Historic Site Education Specialists"
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SESSION VII- Native Americans in East Texas: Three Case Studies
K enneth E. Hendrickson, Presiding
Midwestern State University |
10:45-12:00 P.M.
Angelina Room |
Todd McMakin, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Tyler
"Spanish Interaction with the Caddo in East Texas : Recent Archeological Excavations at
Mission Tejas State Park , Houston County "
Robin Navarro Montgomery, Richards
"The Bidai Indians: Tribe of Intrigue"
James R. Reynolds, University of Texas - Dallas
"The Texas Cherokees: From Beginning to End"
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LUNCH BREAK
You may eat at the hotel or any of the fine eating
establishments in historic Nacogdoches . See enclosed list.
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12:00-1:30 P.M. |
SESSION VII - Two Texas Communities Forever Changed by NASA
Rebecca Wright, Presiding
National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Johnson Space Center
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1:30-2:45
Rusk Room |
Kevin M. Brady, Fort Worth
"From Cattle to Rocket Ships: How the Establishment of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Transformed into a Space Age City "
Jennifer Ross Nazzal and Sandra Johnson,
National Aeronautics & Space Administration Johnson Space Center
"Disaster to Recovery: East Texas Assisted NASA's Return to Flight"
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SESSION IX- East Texas Oilfield Schools
Bobby H. Johnson, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
1:30-2:45
Angelina Room |
Karon Le Compte, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
"East Texas Oilfield Schools: Expansion, Diminution, and Reorganization"
Tom Nicol, Grapeland
"Catheads, Crownblocks, and Rotary Rigs: Oil Industry comes of Age in East Texas "
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SESSION X- Hood's Texans: In Marching and Memory
Charles Grear, Presiding
Texas A&M University - College Station |
1:30-2:45
Raguet Room |
Brian Miller, University of Mississippi
"John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade and the Preservation of Civil War Memory"
Jason M. Frawley, Fort Worth
"'Show Me the Keystone and We'll Smash Her into Smithereens:' Hood's Texans
and Pennsylvania Citizens in the Gettysburg Campaign"
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BREAK
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2:45-3:15 P.M. |
SESSION XI- Lyndon B. Johnson and the East Texas Connection
Bill O'Neal, Presiding
Panola College |
3:15-4:30 P.M.
Rusk Room |
Charles Taylor, Panola College
"What Made Lyndon Tick"
James Smallwood, Oklahoma State University , Retired
"LBJ's 'Operation Texas': His Attempt to Save the Jews"
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SESSION XII- Joint Session with Phi Alpha Theta
Mark Barringer, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
3:15-4:30 P.M.
Raguet Room |
Jennifer Brancato, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Mahdeen: A Case Study for New Deal Reform"
Justin Baxley, Sam Houston State University
"Irish Nationalism in the Medieval Image"
Kristen Lunsford, Stephen F. Austin State University
"The Ties That Bind: Rural Churches and the Elderly in Nacogdoches County "
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SESSION XIII-Establishing Identities: Ethnic Groups Defining
Themselves in the New Confederate Order
Kenneth Howell, Presiding
Prairie View A&M University |
3:15-4:30 P.M.
Angelina Room |
Miranda Kelley, Kansas State University
"Cherokees and Choctaws: Indians or Confederates"
Ralph E. Morales, Texas A&M University - College Station
"Soldados de Tejas : Mexican Americans and the Civil War along the Rio Grande, 1861-1865"
William C. Lipscomb, Houston
"The Last Days of the Confederacy in Houston , Texas "
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SESSION XIV-BANQUET
Dan K. Utley, Presiding
First Vice President, East Texas Historical Association |
6:00 P.M.
Convention Center |
R.G. Dean, President
East Texas Historical Association
"R. L. Moore: Legendary Mathematician and Teacher"
RECEPTION FOLLOWING:
Nacogdoches Old Town Center
200 E. Main
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 |
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Women's History Breakfast |
7:30 A.M.
Nacogdoches Club |
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REGISTRATION - LOBBY |
8:00 A.M. |
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Silent Auction |
8:00 - 10:45 A.M. |
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SESSION XV-Nineteenth-Century Texas Baptists
John Storey, Presiding
Lamar University |
9:00-10:15 A.M.
Raguet Room |
Ron Ellison, Beaumont
"Who Could Possibly Simultaneously Pastor One Baptist Church and Another that Split from the Original Congregation Besides Joseph P. Pritchard, 1856-1860?"
Joseph E. Early, University of the Cumberlands
"You've Been Churched!: Three Individuals Who Were Removed from
the Baptist General Convention of Texas "
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SESSION XVI- More Than Good Enough for Government Work-Photos
Of Gov. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel: An Entertaining Case Study in
Gleaning of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Cynthia J. Beeman, Presiding
Texas Historical Commission, Austin |
9:00-10:15 A.M.
Angelina Room |
Panelists
John Anderson, Austin
Bill Crawford, Austin
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SESSION XVII- Joint Session With the West Texas Historical Association
Tai Kreidler, Presiding
Texas Tech University |
9:00-10:15 A.M.
Rusk Room |
Leland Turner, Lubbock
"Frontier Legacies of the Outback and Texas West: Ranches, Cattle Stations, Enduring Myth, and National Identity"
Randall Montgomery, Lubbock
"The History of the Dalhart Army Air Field: The Economic and Social Impact, 1942-1946"
Aaron Riley, Lubbock
"West Texas Eradication: Stockmen's Campaigns Against Predators"
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COFFEE BREAK
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10:15-10:45 A.M. |
SESSION XVIII- A Feud in the Redlands : The Regulator-Moderator
War, 1839-1944
Bob Bowman, Presiding
Lufkin |
10:45-12:00 A.M.
Raguet Room |
Bill O'Neal, Panola College
"An Overview of the War"
Claude McCrocklin, Shreveport, Louisiana
"Excavations at Potter's Point"
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SESSION XIX- Women in Rural East Texas
Mary Kelley, Presiding
Lamar University |
10:45-12:00 A.M.
Angelina Room |
Carla Gerona, University of Texas - Dallas
"Women, Laws, and Lawlessness of the East Texas Borderlands"
Carol Taylor, Greenville
"Food Conservation and Rural Northeast Texas : Bringing Rural Women into the Present"
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SESSION XX- Sam Rayburn and East Texas
Patrick Cox, Presiding
University of Texas - Austin |
10:45-12:00 A.M.
Rusk Room |
Heather Trent, Sam Rayburn Library and Museum,
Center for American History, Bonham
"The Speaker's Office in Texas : The Planning and Construction of the Sam Rayburn Library"
Carlyn Hammons , Texas Historical Commission, Austin
"Interpreting Mr. Sam at Home"
William A. McWhorter, Texas Historical Commission, Austin
"Together They Won: Sam Rayburn and the Fourth Congressional District in World War II"
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SESSION XXV-LUNCHEON
R.G. Dean, President
East Texas Historical Association
Presiding |
12:15 P.M.
Convention Center |
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Bill Crawford, Austin
"Outlaw X: The Strange World of Border Radio"
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| PRESENTATION OF AWARDS |
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| BUSINESS SESSION |
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