Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 Page: 4
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other projects emphasizing eye contact, gestures, use of props and
aids, a convincing speech, and a story/folktale. For the props/
visual aids speech I displayed a variety of Texas postcards I had
begun collecting through my new hobby of postcard collecting,
more formally known as "deltiology."
It worked so well I decided my story speech would be about a
funny event that happened in the early 1950s, when as a kid I often
trekked from east Waco to the Brazos River and across the old rick-
ety but now famous Suspension Bridge on Saturdays to attend the
weekly movie matinee at the Waco Theater about seven blocks past
the river on Austin Avenue. The story was easy to ad-lib, as I sim-
ply passed around my postcard of the bridge and told of how when
crossing it one Saturday morning with my brother and sister in
tow, we looked down into the water and noticed a bunch of half or
silver dollars shining in the shallow water. We had been warned not
to go down to the water or mess up our clothes, but during the
movie I decided that on the way home I would gather my treasure,
and I couldn't wait for the western movie to end.
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Texas Folklore Society. Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009, book, December 15, 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/m1/17/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.