Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph of a building at Sul Ross State University, current home of Museum of the Big Bend. The building is made of red brick. There are flowering trees in the yard along the sidewalk. Four columns support the overhang leading up to the front entrance.

West Texas deluge, a rainstorm in Alpine.

Photograph of a historic property located at 1000 block N. Perry in Palestine, Texas.

Two women in bathing suits next to Cactus Pryor. Pryor is laying in a lounge chair with a crown on his head. Photograph was taken at a water pageant. Austin, Texas

A group of women in bathing suits. The women are on top of and underneath a platform at the water pageant. Austin, Texas

Photograph of buildings in Thurber, Texas, taken from a parking lot. A gasoline station is on the left; it has a second story serving as an overhang as well as a taller platform with a railing and the words "Thurber Tipple" written near the roof. A car is parked at the gasoline station and a couple is looking inside the engine. The Thurber smokestack is visible near the center of the photograph and several unidentified buildings are on the left. Three other cars are parked on the left side of the photograph.

Photograph of the Wurstfest Opa Band performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band is all men, dressed in gray lederhosen, red ties, and knee-high socks. There are two accordionists, a saxophone player, a trumpeter, a man playing a snare drum, and a tuba player. At the far left, a couple dressed in traditional folk-wear are dancing together.

Photograph of a crowd watching the Ameleb Lebanese Dancers perform at the Texas Folklife Festival. Rows of festival visitors are seated on the grassy hill in front of the stage. Several people are also watching from the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures building in the background. The stage is in the middle ground and contains about ten female dancers in red and green costumes.

Photograph of one of the Mexican folk dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival. The young girl is smiling and wearing a traditional Mexican dress decorated with lace and ribbon around the neckline. The dress is blue with purple, pink and yellow ribbons. She is also wearing a colorful braided yarn headband.

Photograph of two Mexican folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A young boy and girl, dressed in traditional Mexican clothing, are dancing together onstage. The girl is wearing a red and green dress with decorative bead work and embroidery. She is wearing red, green, and white earrings and a red, green, and white bow on her head. The boy is wearing a red suit with white trim, and a red sombrero. Another boy dancer in the group is partially visible behind the girl.

Photograph of the Spanish folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of young girls are dancing onstage wearing big colorful skirts and cropped blouses with big sleeves that tie at the chest. They are twirling their skirts with one hand and waving their other hand in the air. Some spectators are visible offstage in the background.

Photograph of one of the Mexican folk dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival. The young girl is smiling and wearing a long purple and orange floral-patterned skirt with a matching cropped top. She is also wearing a green sash around her neck, purple earrings, and a purple flower in her ponytail.

Photograph of an Argentine folk dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is smiling and raising a stick up in the air. She is wearing a woven headband, a white shirt, a black vest with silver studs, and a red silk scarf. Her face is speckled with glitter.

Photograph of Dick Potter and Jack F. (Spot) Baird educating visitors about possums in the Gilmer Yamboree booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Baird is holding a diagram that illustrates the various cuts of possum meat. Potter is pointing these out to the crowd and talking about them via microphone. Most of the cuts are similar to that of beef but that names have been changed slightly in a comical way. Both men are wearing overalls, floral patterned shirts, and beige hats. Some festival visitors are visible in the background on the left.

Photograph of Dick Potter and Jack F. (Spot) Baird with a boiled possum in the Gilmer Yamboree booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Potter is holding the possum while Baird speaks to the crowd through a microphone. Both men are wearing overalls, floral patterned shirts, and beige hats. Some festival visitors are visible in the background on the left.

Photograph of Dick Potter holding a pot of baked possum in the Gilmer Yamboree booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The pot contains a whole possum atop several yams. Potter is wearing glasses, a straw cowboy hat, overalls, and a floral-patterned shirt.

Photograph of John Henry (Bones) Nobles, from Beaumont, with Peter Breaz, lead singer for Hickory, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Breaz is on the left and has his arm around Nobles. He is holding a microphone and pointing it towards Nobles. Nobles wears an African tribal shirt and a leopard-print beret, while Breaz wears a white shirt with red and green suspenders.

Photograph of John Henry (Bones) Nobles, from Beaumont, with a fan at the Texas Folklife Festival. Nobles is on the right wearing an African tribal shirt and a leopard-print beret. He has a long gray mustache and goatee. The fan, on the left, is an older woman with graying hair and a navy blue shirt.

Photograph of John Henry (Bones) Nobles, from Beaumont, playing rib bones of a cow at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing an African-inspired tribal shirt, a leopard-print beret and has a long gray mustache and goatee. He is shaking the bones in his right hand.

Photograph of John Henry (Bones) Nobles, from Beaumont, playing the rib bones of a cow at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing an African-inspired tribal shirt, and a leopard-print beret. He is standing in front of two microphones as he shakes the bones in his right hand.

Photograph of John Collins dressed as Judge Roy Bean at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a button up shirt with a black leather vest, a red bandana, a thick white beard and a black cowboy hat with a tall round crown. He is holding a rifle across his chest.

Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing traditional tribal clothing: a woven headband and arm band, a loin cloth, and a large purple, orange, and white feathered headdress that extends all the way down his back. He is also wearing modern aviator sunglasses.

Photograph of the Ukrainian Folk Dancers of Houston posing for a group photo at the Texas Folklife Festival. The men are seated in front with their arms crossed at their chests and legs straight out in front of them. They are wearing white shirts with patterned panels on the fronts extending down from the collars. They are also wearing loose blue pants, red sashes around their waists, and black boots. The women are standing behind the men, wearing wreaths of colorful flowers on their heads, white blouses with patterned sleeves, and long vests of either red, black or blue. They are each wearing red beaded necklaces. Another man is standing behind the women, dressed like the other men.