We enjoyed the meeting of the Texas Folklore Society in Odessa Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We left Abilene Thursday afternoon about 2 p.m. after eating and having the car washed and due to the 75 mph speed limits got to Odessa by 4:15. We enjoyed the free drinks and listened to an hour of the Hootenanny Thursday night. As always every paper Friday and Saturday were very interesting. I have never heard a bad paper at the TFS. Paul Carlson had an excellent paper on the myths and true history of the Pease River battle that "rescued" Cynthia Ann Parker from the Comanches. She was captured at age 9 and lived as one of the four wives of a Comanche warrior, Nocona, who was not a chief. Sul Ross, who was later president of Texas A&M, was in the raid and used his version to help his political career. The truth was that the raid was on a Comanche hunting camp that was leaving that day and only had a few men with mostly women and children. The raid killed a few women and boys. Nocona and his son Quanah were not present. Paul is an excellent historian. His book on the prairie Indian tribes amazed me with the huge number of different tribes and languages that were not taught in Oklahoma history when I took it in school.
Jim and Mary Harris from Hobbs, NM continued their tradition of bringing wine to share with TFS.
Karen and Lee Haile have raised their girls in TFS. Lee is currently sawing the logs burned in the huge fire near Smithville.
This was Nancy's third TFS meeting and she was welcomed everywhere. We both enjoyed all of the papers. We got to visit with many long-time friends. Too many to list here. We enjoyed the entertainment at the dinner. Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys from Big Spring were an outstanding Texas music band with two fiddles, one played left-handed by Nix, and a steel guitar, bass fiddle and trap drums but no guitars. We almost got up and danced but decided we need more practice in private.
We left at 11:45 Saturday morning and after a stop at Walmart in Abilene got home in time for a 4 o'clock nap. We got to bed early because we got up at 6 this morning to attend Sunrise service in Cross Plains. As we went to bed the rain storm came through and we had 1" of rain last night. It was foggy and cloudy so that we didn't get to see the sun rise but had a great service under a canopy behind Bubba's BBQ in CP. After the service we went to the church for coffee and sweet breads. Because I was worship leader, we came home to change clothes. Nancy dropped me off at the Methodist church and went to the opening services at the Baptist church where Russ Miller was being baptized. She then made it back just as I finished announcements at our church. Our sanctuary had twice the normal attendance due to family members visiting. We had a large choir and a great sermon to follow the sunrise sermon. We then enjoyed a day of rest.
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