The Texas State Historical Association's 114th Annual Meeting will be held on March 4 - 6, 2010 at the Marriott Quorum Hotel in Dallas.
Friday, March 5 Session 30 2:30 p.m.
Mesquite II (First Floor) Joint Session With Texas Folklore Society
The Texas Folklore Society: Celebrating 100 Years of Preserving Texas Culture,Kenneth L. Untiedt presiding, StephenF.AustinStateUniversity Big RockCandyMountains: The Unlikely Provenance of an Iconic Depression-era FolkSong, L. Patrick Hughes, AustinCommunity College Country Toys: Before Toys R Us, Wildwood Dean Price, Bonham, Texas Cowboy Poetry as Oral History, Charles Williams, Dallas, Texas
Country toys talked about will include: Paper Toys, airplanes, sailboats, and drinking cups; Loops of String, crows' foot, Jacob's ladder; Noise Makers, bull fiddles and bones; tin can telephones, tops, guns of all sorts, stick horses, tomahawks, pea shooters, gee whizzes, soap tractors, whistles, sling shots, rods and reels and kites.