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x * Preface
explores both time and space-from the past of Jesse James in
Kansas and Emily, the Maid of Morgan's Point, to the future with
speculation about uppity women everywhere and extraterrestrial
visitors in Roswell.
I am pleased to say that at this millennial juncture in 2001 the
State of the Society is sound in wind and limb. We have more
members, both on the books and regularly attending meetings,
than we ever had. I can remember when we had meetings in class-
rooms and conference rooms and did not completely fill them.
We are also financially solvent. And again I look back thirty years
to a time when we had to borrow from next year's dues to pay for
this year's book.
I believe that our success in maintaining membership has been
that we have exhibited the best genetic qualities of homo sapiens,
that is, that the Society is a generalized rather than a specialized
animal. Our meetings' papers and our publications have covered
such a broad spectrum of folklore topics that sometime and some-
where we amused, amazed, entertained, and educated everybody
about something. Or at least, we held their interest.
Our financial stability has improved as the times have im-
proved, but looking back I see windfalls from members that have
come at a most economically propitious time. The Society will be
forever indebted to the financial support and advice given by such
folks as Howard Wilcox, Leroy Brown, James Winfrey, Tom
Breedlove, Bill Stokes, and Fran Vick, among a bunch of others.
Additionally, and most importantly, the Society has developed
its ample treasury through the generosity of a large number of
members, patrons and paisano grandes, who give annually and
regularly much more than their required single membership fees.
But the forces that were absolutely necessary to the continua-
tion of the stability of the Society and the sanity of its Secretary-
Editor were the talented young ladies who have maintained the
office of the Texas Folklore Society for the past twenty-nine years.
I am going to be fairly general about complimenting these
ladies because I learned early on that when a man brags on one
woman around another, somewhere along the way he's going to
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This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. 2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey, book, 2001; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38303/m1/12/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.