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Meetings and Other Activities
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MJ García sends us the following:
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October 7, 2011 - The
Los Bexarenos conference starts today and goes through Saturday Oct 8 at the Marriott Plaza Hotel in San Antonio at the corner of Alamo and
Durango Streets.
The next meeting of Los Bexarenos will be on October 8, 2011 at the Central Library auditorium at 9:30am. The speaker will be the Honorable Gerard Rickoff, the present Bexar County Clerk. He will speak on the Bexar Archives. J.R. (Corky) Rubio's guest editorial in the San Antonio Express News calls for the Univeristy of Texas at Austin to return the Bexar County Spanish archives to San Antonio. |
August 29, 2011 - You can be in pictures! Be in film of Battle of Medina.
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On November 5th, 2011 Dr. Juan Jasso, Superintendent of Schools and the Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin invite you to attend this free event. Battle of Medina Film Productions will be filming the reenactment of the Battle of Medina and is seeking volunteers for the reenactment of the biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil. Read more. |
August 29, 2011- Hear Art Martinez de Vara speak on Jose Francisco Ruiz
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Meeting of Los Bexareños Genealogical Society Date: September 3, 2011 At 9:30am at: the San Antonio Central Library 600 Soledad Street in the first floor auditorium Speaker: Art Martinez de Vara Topic: The Early Life of Jose Francisco Ruiz: 1783 – 1821 |
August 24, 2011 - Vote on new font for Familias de Terlingua starting its third year.
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We need your help. We will be using a new font on the header of Familias de Terlingua. There are six candidates to choose from. Two of those are shown on the left.
Go to the Header Font Selection page and vote for the font you want us to use. On September 29, 2011 Familias de Terlingua will be two years old. |
February 2, 2011
Lectures Cancelled Due to Weather Conditions
We will be serializing Mr. Casa's lecture
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Juan Casas to speak at Victoria College Feb 4, 2011
Juan Casas, author of Federico Villalba's Texas, presents a paper at Victoria College in Victoria, Texas that enhances our knowledge of the history that affected the Terlingua area. His paper is titled, "The Omission of Spanish and Spanish Mexican Contributions from Tejano/Texas History."
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Victoria College, in Victoria Texas, is presenting the John W. Stormont Lectures on South Texas on Thursday, February 3 and Friday, February 4. Juan's presentation will be on Friday morning at 11:00 AM. Juan tells us this paper is a direct result of what he noticed while doing research for his book, Federico Villalba's Texas.
The following two quotes from his paper give us its focus:
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"Mexicans have typically been depicted as
bandidos or swarthy, inconsequential characters that were unworthy of positive
mention in the architecture of Big Bend history. I discovered that the slight to
my great-grandfather, and other fellow pioneers, such as Martín Solis, Félix
Domíguez, Félix Gómez, and Ramon Molinar,
to name a few, was symptomatic of an issue of a much bigger scale. In general, I
found that Spanish and Spanish Mexican contributions in Texas
history were largely overlooked or somehow ignobly melded into obscurity in mainstream
history books."
" ...contrary to what mainstream Texas history books tell us, Texas history does not begin in 1836 with the establishment of the third Republic of Texas." |
After his presentation Juan Manuel Casas will make his paper available
to be published in Familias de Terlingua. You will find the link to Juan Manuel Casas' paper here.
This is the link to the Stormont Lectures on South Texas with the schedule for the lectures.
This is the link to the Stormont Lectures on South Texas with the schedule for the lectures.
