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Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star

Description: This paper tells the story of a joke that Joe Bunton played on Robert Humphris, his cousin when they were children. Wil Cross wrote this paper for his American History class at Marfa High School in 1976.
Date: 1976
Creator: Cross, Wil
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Oral History Interview with James Cory, December 21, 1976

Description: Interview with Marine Corps veteran James Cory. The interview includes Cory's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The interview includes an appendix with a letter, news bulletin, memorandums, and a narrative.
Date: December 21, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cory, James
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

History of the Charles Conrad Johanson Family

Description: Photocopy of a handwritten document. "The History of the Charles Conrad Johanson Family," by Drusilla Johanson Miller traces the Johanson family's history back to Sweden in 1842 and the Andrew Johann Johnson family's Swedish history back to 1861 and then follows the journeys of both men as they emigrate from Sweden into Texas, eventually settling in the East Sweden, Fairview, and Brady Communities of McCulloch County, where their families merged with the 1906 marriage in Brady of their children… more
Date: 1976~
Creator: Miller, Drusilla Johanson
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of a Man at a Syrup Mill]

Description: Copy negative of a man working at an early twentieth century syrup mill converting sugar cane into cane syrup; a child is sitting on a stack of sugar cane next to him. The cane is inserted into the mill and the juice is squeezed out of it by a mule walking in a circle. Behind the mill, men are standing by a vat of boiling juice becoming syrup. This mill was located near Wilson, Texas in Comanche County.
Date: April 26, 1976
Partner: Dublin Historical Museum

Elm Fork Echoes Bicentennial Album, July 1976

Description: Album published by the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas documenting the history of the area in honor of the United States bicentennial (1776-1976). It includes annotated photographs of people and places related to Dallas County, Texas; name index starts on page 77.
Date: July 1976
Creator: Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas
Partner: Carrollton Public Library
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