Texas play marks tenth season at Palo Duro Canyon
The outdoor production Texas by Paul Green returns for its tenth season from June 18 to August 23 in Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo and Canyon Texas. The show uses sounds and light to portray the 1880s Panhandle, featuring a 140‑member company and 80 performers, with a public contact box 268 Canyon TX 79015 and phone 806 655 2182.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Amarillo
Canyon
Texas
Panhandle
Paul Green
America
Reflections on a forested, unspoiled landscape by Jaltudin Rumi
A contemplative poem describing a place where Willows mirror in a stream and peppermint grows along the bank. It laments no factories or bulldozers and imagines trading concrete for grass as the speaker longs for heaven to be forestlike and green.
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Heaven
Fisher Library Addition Dedicated at Junction
Governor Dolph Briscoe and a host of dignitaries joined a crowd of over six hundred at Junction for the dedication of the Fisher Library addition. The event followed a beef barbecue and featured remarks from Kimble County officials and several U S congressmen including Tom Steed Bob Poage Jim Nugent Floyd Spence and Fisher himself.
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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 Morning
The 87th Gillespie County Fair begins Friday at 10 a.m. marking Texas oldest continuously operated county fair. The event showcases top exhibits, livestock, horse races, bands, and a nostalgic farewell to the old fair grounds ahead of a possible move in 1976. Congressman Poage and other dignitaries praise community support and history.
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Gillespie County Fair
Texas
Ales Prantzen
Curtis Cameron
Pehl
Oompah
Friendly Sewing Circle Meeting Set for August 28
The Friendly Sewing Circle will meet Thursday, August 28, at the home of Mrs. Alfrey Kramer. Mrs. Lydia Kramer will be hostess and a quilt will be quilted for her at that time. All members are urged to attend.
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Cynthia Ann Parker
la von Parker
Duane Holmes
Darrell Holmes
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Harper
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
Kevin Klein
Kerry Feller
Ronnie Behrens
Billy Holmes
Holmes
Vada Miears
Orrin Parker
Ben Thomas
Harper Community Hall
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
Alfrey Kramer
Lydia Kramer
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Arnold Glason
George Santayana
Louis Leon de Saint-Just
Gillespie County Sheriff's Office
Harper Telephone Exchange
Enterprise
St. Anthony
Patricia Holmes
Sharon Wanner
Barbara Holmes
Lane Pape
Max Hartmann
Dulan Barret
Clayton Parker
Pam Massey
Tinda Mauldin
Quincy Bowers
Janie Sublett
Dorothy Kane
Austin
Bryan
Leander
Harper Band Boosters
Chuang T2u
Ama
Qarat Khayyam
Frontier Festival
Harper Community Park
Bede's Feed & Supply Store
Tommy Priour
U. S. 290
St. James Lutheran Church
Lena Crider
the Cross Countrymen
Adolph Hofner
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
Ells (Ohta) Lang
Mons
Liane
Norman E Sullivan
San Antoni
Joseph Lang
Paul Lang
Harpos
Joha Tng
Vaacneruuna
Gillespie
Walter McAllister
San Antonio
Ray Meredith
Uvalde
Col. O. B. Cloutt
Curtis Pool
Odessa
Bill Cook
Washington, D. C
Louis Stumberg
Glenn Tewier
San Angelo
Pete Manzino
del Rio
Tom Brown
Jack Maddox
Ted Britt
Virginia
Coke Stevenson
Erwin Nixon
Arthur Stehling
Norman J. Dietel
Poage and
Laud Fisher
Bob Poape
House Agriculture Comittee
Poage
Friendly Sewing
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