Texas drama Texas at Palo Duro Canyon heads to tenth season
Paul Green’s outdoor musical Texas returns for its tenth season June 18 through August 23 at the Palo Duro Canyon amphitheatre near Amarillo and Canyon Texas. A 140-member company with 80 performers portrays Panhandle life amid winds storms and dramatic sound effects. For information write Texas Box 268 Canyon TX 79015 or call 806 655 2182.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Amarillo
Canyon
Texas
Panhandle
Paul Green
America
Reflections on a Forested Homestead by Jalludin Rumi
The speaker admires a nearly unchanged riverside place with willows and peppermint along the bank. No pollution or construction mar the scene, as old homes shimmer at night and birds sing. The poet longs for forests over concrete and trees over bare poles.
Parker Holmes wedding in St Anthony Harper
Cynthia Ann Parker and Duane Holmes wed at St Anthony Catholic Church Harper in a Saturday ceremony. Officiant Rev A A Gitter led a double ring rite with music from Linda Mauldin and a quartet. Attendants wore blue gowns, reception at Harper Community Hall, out of town guests from Austin Kerrville Ingram Fredericksburg Bryan Leander.
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Cynthia Ann Parker
Duane Holmes
St. Anthony Church
Harper
la von Parker
Darrell Holmes
St. Anthony Catholic Church
A. A. Gitter
V. L. Heiman
Linda Mauldin
Bride
Dite
Maribeth Steinruck
Harper High School
Corpus Christi
Parker
Kim Barrett
Sharon Klein
Fredericksburg
Michele Miears
Charles Miears
Ingram
Jason Wanner
Perry Wanner
Orrin Parker
Ben Thomas
Harper Community Hall
Patricia Holmes
Sharon Warner
Barbara Holmes
Lane Pape
Max Hartmann
Cujan Barret
Clayton Parker
Pam Massey
Tinda Mauldin
Quincy Bowers
Janie Sublett
Dorothy Kane
Austin
Kerrville
Bryan
Leander
Frontier Festival Opens With Parade and Rodeo Events
The Harper Frontier Festival Festival Weekend features two days of rodeo events, fiddlers contest, barbecue, and a parade through Harper on August 20 and 21 at the Community Park. Rodeo headquarters at Bede’s Feed & Supply with entries Aug 29. Local musicians Lena Crider & The Cross Countrymen and Adolph Hofner will perform.
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Harper
Bede's Feed & Supply
Tommy Priour
Kerrville
Harper Community Park
U. S. 290
St. James Lutheran Church
Lena Crider
the Cross Countrymen
Adolph Hofner
Fisher Library Addition Dedicated at Junction
Governor Dolph Briscoe and many dignitaries joined a 600 strong crowd in Junction for the dedication and opening of the Fisher Library addition. The 1500 square foot annex houses memorabilia from O C Fisher 34 years in Congress with remarks by Judge Wilbur Dunk and speakers including Tom Steed Bob Poage Jim Nugent Helen Pauley and Floyd Spence.
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Dolph Briscoe
QO. C. Fisher
Junction
Fisher Library
Jim Nugent
Briscoe
Conrad Holekamp
Radio Post
O. C. Fisher
Kimble County
Fisher
Wilbur Dunk
Judge Dunk
Tom Steed
Oklahoma
Bob Poage
Waco
U. S. Congress
Kerrville
Rhoda
Jim) Grimes
Houston
Helen Pauley
Congr
Floyd Spence
South Carolina
Congressman Fisher
Gillespie County Fair Opens With Parade Friday
The 87th Gillespie County Fair begins Friday at 10 a.m. with bands floats and entries. It marks Texas longest continuously operated county fair and the final year at the old fair grounds with a Sunday ceremony to honor supporters since 1892.
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Gillespie County Fair
Texas
Ales Evantzen
Friendly Sewing Circle Meeting Set for August 28
The Friendly Sewing Circle will meet Thursday August 28 at the home of Mrs Alfred Kramer. Mrs Lydia Kramer will host and a quilt will be quilted for her at that time. All members are urged to attend.
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Harper Band
Erlyn Perser
Snyder
Texas
Charles J. McDougall
Colon Barrett
Alfred ‘Speedy’ Edwards
Walter Winn Parker
Emil A. Tatsch
Hugo Arhtt
Robert Fritz
Band Boosters Club
Harper Longhorn Band
Friendly Sewing Iite
Alfred Kramer
Lydia Kramer
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Arnold Glason
George Santayana
Louis Leon de Saint-Just
Jalludin
Rumi
Harper Band Boosters
Chuang Tzu
Fama
Qinat Khayyam
Duane Kolmes
Ak i Gas
Frontier Festival
Hummingbird Hill
By Ruth Mincy
Thelma Trow
Port Bolivar
Robert Maurer
C. S. Mincy
Jewel Hobbins
Pecos
Charles Barrett
Roy Roberts
Clint Brown
Willie Lewis
Elis (Ohta) Lang
Mons
Llano
Itc
Norman E Sullivan
San Antoni
Meo
Joseph Lang
Paul Lang
Harpos
Gillespie
Curtis Cameron
Pehl
Oompah
Walter McAllister
San Antonio
Ray Meredith
Uvalde
Col
O B. Cloutt
Curtis Pool
Odessa
Bill Cook
Washington, D. C
Louis Stumberg
Glenn Tewis
Erwin Nixon
Arthur Stehling
Norman J. Dietel
Poage and
Laud Fisher
House Agriculture Comittee
Poage
Friendly Sewing
Harper Volunteer Fire Dept
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