Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 Page: 52
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52 WHAT'S THE POINT? WHY THE FOLK COME IN THE FIRST PLACE
stories. I will now, this New Year's Eve, rewind my lifeclock to
their purpose, my purpose, our purpose as members of the Texas
Folklore Society. Below is the briefest listing of my gifts from the
Choctaw Five.
* From Estelline Tubby, "The Beating of Wings," a short
story in Walking the Choctaw Road.
* From Charley Jones, "The Choctaw Way," a short story in
Walking the Choctaw Road, and When Turtle Grew Feath-
ers, a children's book.
* From Tony Byars, a boarding school story in Walking the
Choctaw Road, "Tony Byars," and Rolling Way the Rock,
the story of a Choctaw boy at Alcatraz.
* From Buck Wade, "Brothers," a short story in Walking the
Choctaw Road.
* From Archie Mingo, "Crossing Bok Chitto," a short story
in Walking the Choctaw Road and a children's book of the
same title.
* From J. Frank Dobie and the Choctaw Five, a life filled
with awe, real and imagined.
So, why does any of this matter? What are we TSFers really try-
ing to achieve?
Maybe we are trying to defy death, delay the inevitable. Maybe
we are honoring the lives of those who paved the way for our
work. Maybe we are striving to create something that will be
remembered after we pass on. Maybe we are struggling with mean-
ing. Maybe pine-scented sunsets and Gulf waves are not enough
anymore; we want evidenced eternity, tombstones that talk, real
voices in the almost-heard whisperings, so we know that we the lis-
teners can someday become we the whisperers. Or, maybe grave-
yards are more of birthings than of dyings.
I think this is it: graveyards giving birth, revisiting old tombs as
age wraps its corrosive fingers around our thin-skinned musings.
So, maybe the next time I visit Chambers Cemetery in McAlester,
Oklahoma, I can poke around Buck Wade's grave and know that
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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/m1/65/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.