THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008
 

Board of Directors Meeting 3:00 P.M.

REGISTRATION 8:00 A.M.

SESSION I-

Seventy Five Years of Roses: 9:00 – 10:15 A.M.
The Tyler Rose Industry and Texas Rose Festival
Ann Lawrence, Presiding
Tyler

Pegasus Room

Jennifer Gaston, Tyler Rose Museum

“How to Keep a Rose Festival in Perpetual Bloom:
The Maintenance of an East Texas Tradition”

Jill Ramey, Tyler

“Once a Queen, Always a Queen: Seventy Five Years
of Roses, Royalty, Romance, and References”

H. Brent Pemberton, Texas A&M University , Overton

SESSION II-Women of East Texas , Scandalous And Otherwise 9:00-10:15 A.M.
Caroline Crimm, Presiding
Sam Houston State University

John Hanners, Texas A&M University —Commerce

“Mothers Who Kill: The Sensational 1936 Hunt County Murder Trial of Velma Patterson”

Dee Rinkes-Marshall, Texas A&M University —Commerce

“Velma Patterson: Perspectives on an Alleged Murderess: Fact, Fiction, and Folklore”

Julie Holcomb, Navarro College

“East Texans in the Civil War: The Papers of Samuel A. Goodman and James Rogers Loughridge”

Mary Hayes, Navarro College

“Preservation and Access Issues in the Pearce Civil War Collection”

SESSION IV-The Future of Higher Education 10:45-12:00 P.M.
Cheryl Rogers, Presiding
Tyler Junior College

Marshall Schott, University of Houston

“Challenges facing Higher Education and the Future of East Texas ; Urbanization, Diversity, and Declining Graduation Rates”

Bill Ratliff, Mt. Pleasant, Texas

“Remarks and Analyses”

Pete LaMothe, Eastman Chemical Company

“Really Closing the Gaps: Retraining College Graduates For Jobs in the Real World; An Industrial Perspective”

SESSION V- People and Personalities of East Texas 10:45 –12:00 P.M. Jerry L. Summers, Presiding
East Texas Baptist University

“When is a Southern Lady not a Lady? When She is an Oil Landman!: The Life of Sue Birdwell Alves”

Kimberly Bush Tomio, Tyler Museum

“Harry Worthman, Portrait Painter: A Life in Art”

Ron Ellison, Beaumont , Texas

“William David Beverly, The Only Minister to Pastor Crockett Baptist Twice: 1874-1876 and 1884-1886”

SESSION VI-East Texas Pioneers 10:45 - 12:00 P.M.
Charles Grear, Presiding
Prairie View A&M University

Jack K. Selden, Palestine

“More than Captives: Notable Relatives of Cynthia Ann Parker”

Jeffrey A. Owens, Tyler Junior College

“ Longview before the Oil Boom: The Birth and Growth of a Railroad Town ”

Gary E. Bryant, University of Houston

“Was ‘Confederate Rosie' Ever an East Texan?
Women's Entry into the Paid Labor Force in the Civil War”

LUNCH BREAK (No Association Luncheon) 12:00 – 1:30 P.M.

Randall B. Gilbert, Tyler

“The Unwhipped of Justice: The Conflict Between John Bankhead Magruder and the Texas Supreme Court, 1863-1865”

James M. Smallwood, Oklahoma State University , Retired

“Ben Bickerstaff and the Siege of Sulphur Springs, 1868”

Shannon Cross, Tyler Junior College

“Resisting Reconstruction in Smith County and the Surrounding Area: East Texans vs. the Freedman's Bureau”

Linda Gary, Tyler Junior College

“Southern Gentility and Po ' Whitetrash: Culture and Class in M.E.M. Davis' Under the Man Fig ”

Naomie R. Byrum, Tyler Junior College

“Hunting Camps, Designing Women, Good Ol' Boys, Mama's Boys, and Bad, Bad Daddies: East Texas Culture in William Humphrey's Home From the Hill”

Joe R. Lansdale, Nacogdoches

SESSION IX-Race Relations and Civil Rights 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
Michael K. Mast, Presiding
Tyler Junior College

Yvonne Davis Frear, Sam Houston State University

“Standing Up to Sit Down: Lunch Counter Sit-ins, the NAACP Youth Council, and the Dallas Civil Rights Movement”

Jared K. Wheeler, Waco

“Prelude to Anarchy? The Longview Race Riot of 1919”

Tinsley E. Silcox, Southern Methodist University

“Preserving the Heritage of African-American Film Makers: The Restoration and Preservation of the Tyler , Texas , Black Film Collection”

SESSION X-The World Gone to Hell in a Handbasket, or Tyler Junior College, Civil Liberties, and the Federal Courts: Dr. Harry Jenkins and the Infamous “Hair Case” of 1970, Lansdale vs TJC”
3:00-4:15 P.M.
David Hudson, Presiding
Tyler

A Round Table Discussion

Joe Lansdale, Nacogdoches , Texas

Cassie Bayliss, Tyler , Texas

Jason Waller, Tyler , Texas

Featuring Plaintiffs, Administrators, Faculty, Lawyers, ex-Students, And Interested Bystanders as they Cuss, Discuss, Reminisce, and Generally Bury the Hatchet

SESSION XI-A Way Out West in Dixie: Debating the Regional Identity of Texas; Southern or Western? 3:00-4:15 P.M.
Sam W. Haynes, Presiding
University of Texas at Arlington

Ty Cashion, Sam Houston State University

“South, West or Texexceptional? The Regional Identity of Texas ”

Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell, North Texas State University

“The Search for a ‘Usable Past' for Texas : Looking to the South and the West”

Mark D. Barringer, Stephen F. Austin State University

“Every Place Its Own: Thoughts On Texas Regionalism”

SESSION XII-The Neglected History of Cherokee County Phoenix Room
Dan K. Utley, Presiding
Texas Historical Commission

Terry Guinn, Jacksonville, Texas

“Vignettes of Cherokee County ”

Jane Purtle, Bullard, Texas

“The Cherokee County Oral History Project”

John Ross, Lon Morris College

“Methodist Education in the Piney Woods: The History of Lon Morris College ”

SESSION XIII-Banquet 7:00 P.M.
Ted Lawe, First Vice President
East Texas Historical Association, Presiding

Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr., Lamar University

“Manly Tales and Texas Lore: Walter P. Lane and the
Storytelling Traditions of Nineteenth –Century Adventurism”

  Reception following the program at the historic Fitzgerald House, 815 S Broadway, with entertainment provided on the front porch by “Them Texas Boys,” Bobby Owens, Kathryn Owens Blankenship, Klint Austin Blankenship, Travis Barrett Blankenship, and Cole Allen.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Women's History Breakfast 7:30 A.M.

SESSION XIV-Historic Preservation and Community Development 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
Ellen Musselman, Presiding
Southwest Operating Company

Brian Davis, Galveston Historical Foundation

“Saving the Hopeless House: How to Help Low to Moderate Income Homeowners Save Historic Dwellings; or, Lessons from the Galveston Historical Foundation”

Jessie M. “Duke” DeWare IV, Jefferson , Texas

“Reinventing Historic Communities: The Jefferson Institute of Jefferson , Texas ”

SESSION XV-Restoring the Ancient Order: Churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement in East Texas 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
Kenneth W. Howell, Presiding
Prairie View A&M University

Barry Pennington, LeTourneau University

“The Rationale for Restoration: East Texas Pioneers and the Ideal of Reviving First-Century Christianity”

Kenneth Peden, Gladewater , Texas

“J.D. Tant: Elijah on the Frontier”

George Clark Dugger, Tyler , Texas

“The Great Divide: Issues that Split the
Restoration into Churches and Disciples of Christ”

SESSION XVI-The Impact on a Town When an Industry Shuts Down: De-Industrialization in East Texas9:00-10:15 A.M.
D. Clayton Brown, Presiding
Texas Christian University

Brent McCauley, Kelly Springfield Tire Company, Tyler

“Shutting Down the Plant: Factors and Issues in

the Goodyear Closure, Tyler , Texas ”

Jan B. McCauley, Tyler Junior College

“The Texas & Pacific Railroad Shops in Marshall :

A Moving Target for Taxsploitation?”

Marcus A. Carroll, Tyler , Texas

“The Last Stitch: Lawsuits and the Closure of the

Lee Jeans Plant, Sulphur Springs ”

COFFEE BREAK 10:15 - 10:45 A.M.

SESSION XVII-Remembering Lady Bird: A Conversation Among Friends, Reminiscences And a General Discussion 10:45 - 12:00 P.M.
David Creech, Presiding
Director, SFA Mast Arboretum
Stephen F. Austin State University

Jessie M. “Duke” DeWare, Jefferson , Texas

M'Liss Hindman, Tyler Junior College

Damon Waitt, University of Texas at Austin

SESSION XVIII-That Old Time Religion: Music of the Frontier Churches 10:45 - 12:00 P.M.
Linda Cross, Presiding
Tyler Junior College

Margaret Rounsavall, Tyler , Texas

“Shaped Notes and Heartfelt Praises: A History of Sacred Harp Singing from Elizabethan Times”

Robert Vaughn and Ensemble of Singers

“Sounds of The Sacred Harp: Demonstrating an East Texas Tradition”

SESSION XIX-Smith County History, as Recalled By Members of the Smith County Historical Society 10:45 - 12:00 P.M.
Vicki Betts, Presiding
University of Texas at Tyler

Andrew Leath, Tyler, Texas

“The Smith County Poor Farm”

Randy Mallory, Tyler, Texas

“When Cotton Was King: Recollections of Loy Gilbert, A Video Memory”

James Wilkins, Tyler, Texas

“Nuclear Frenzy: The Fall-Out Shelters of Smith County in the 1950s and 1960s”

SESSION XX-LUNCHEON 12:15 PM
Beverly Rowe, President, East Texas Historical Association, Presiding

Archie P. McDonald

“Dan Utley Never Picked Cotton”

  PRESENTATION OF AWARDS

Thanks to the Program Committee,
Jeffrey A. Owens and Linda Cross,
for their hard work.