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 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 a man standing next to a bear carving at the Texas Folklife Festival. Below the carving is a sign that says, "Wildlife Prints." The man is to the right of it, wearing a peach shirt and a straw cowboy hat. In the image, the bear has just killed a deer and is looming over it in a mountainous landscape.

Photograph of Jack F. (Spot) Baird and Dick Potter adding Jimenez peppers to a yam pie at Gilmer Yamboree at the Texas Folklife Festival. Baird is in the middle putting the peppers on the pie; Potter is on the right slicing the peppers. Both of them are wearing overalls and the same floral print shirt. Baird is wearing a safari style hat; Potter is wearing a straw cowboy hat. Daisy Potter "The Possum Queen" is on the left, wearing a sash denoting her title and pointing to the jar of peppers.

Photograph of O. T. Baker at smokehouse speaking to festival visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is holding the jawbone of some animal and is standing in front of a wooden shack that has a couple of cow skulls hanging on it. A sign on the shack says, "O. T. Baker, Smokehouse, Austin."

Photograph of a woman helping festival visitors at the Institute of Texan Cultures Information and Souvenirs booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dark-haired woman is behind the booth, across from three festival visitors who are visible from behind. Hats, festival t-shirts, and buttons are hanging up all over the booth. Small signs are displaying price information for each item.

Photograph of the Institute of Texan Cultures Information and Souvenirs booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The square booth has t-shirts and hats hanging up inside of it. Two visitors are standing on one side talking to one of the four booth workers. At the top on each side is a sign that reads, "Kiosk, Souvenirs & Information."

Photograph of Daisy Potter, "The Possum Queen," being escorted by Raul Jimenez, president of Jimenez Food Products, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Potter is wearing a pioneer dress, a sash denoting her title, and is carrying an open parasol. The couple is walking between two tables filled with yam pies in Gilmer Yamboree.

Photograph of Daisy Potter, "The Possum Queen," presenting a yam pie topped with Jimenez peppers to Raul Jimenez, president of Jimenez Food Products, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Potter is wearing a pioneer dress, a sash denoting her title, and a homemade crown with the image of a possum on it. She is standing in the center, handing the pie to Jimenez on the left. Jack F. (Spot) Baird is on the right, speaking into a microphone.

Photograph of Daisy Potter, "The Possum Queen," feeding a yam pie to a visitor's dog at the Texas Folklife Festival. Potter is wearing a pioneer dress, a sash denoting her title, and a homemade crown with the image of a possum on it. She is kneeling to the left of a large black and white spotted dog presenting it with a small piece of pie on a napkin.

Photograph of Brooks D. Baker, from Deer Park, at Hominy Making School at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is holding a handful of raw hominy he scooped up from a ceramic jar in front of him. He is wearing brow-line glasses, a plaid shirt and plaid pants. Next to the ceramic jar is a bottle of lye and a container of Morton salt.

Photograph of a woman doing Calligraphy at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting at a drafting table writing a word with a thick felt-tip pen. On the table there is a sign that reads, "Your name lettered." She is wearing a white, peasant-style blouse and has short, dark hair.

Photograph of a woman demonstrating how to make cascarones at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in a booth decorated with red, green and white garland, and several different piñatas. Rows of colorful cascarones (confetti-filled eggs) with tiny cone-shaped party hats are lined up on the table in front of the woman. Two signs, one for cascarones and one for piñatas, are hanging across the top of the booth.

Photograph of a girl sitting on a see-saw in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. The see-saw is made of a raw branch of wood and a flat panel with a handle. Only her end is visible. She is wearing a large red hat with a wide brim and a yellow patterned dress repeating the word, "Love."

Letter from Mary Davis to Barbara Lawrence stating that she has enclosed computer discs with data used to create last year's yearbook for 1995-1996. She hopes that her material will help with the creation of the new yearbook for this year.

Photograph of The Now Singers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are four members visible, one man and three women, all standing next to each other and singing into their own microphone. The man is on the left wearing a white shirt and jeans, singing with his eyes closed. The woman to the right of him is wearing a floral jumpsuit. The two other women are wearing blouses and cropped pants. Behind them is a banner that says, "The Now Singers," and has an image of a cross. A canopy of greenery is hanging overhead.

Photograph of the Duckens Family Singers at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of nineteen African-American family members, men and women, are posing for the photograph on the grass in front of a wooden building. Some of them are kneeling down in the front but most of them are standing. Each member is either wearing a blue t-shirt that says, "Duckens Family", or just a plain blue shirt. Most of them are smiling.

Photograph of Bruce Montague, roping expert from Bandera, doing a roping demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on the left, swinging his lasso around as he gets ready to lasso a group of children standing on the right. Montague is wearing a cowboy hat, western shirt, dark pants, and black boots. Several spectators are gathered in the background. A sign posted to a tree says, "Bruce Montague, Roping Expert, Bandera."

Photograph of Bruce Montague, roping expert from Bandera, lassoing a group of children at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on the left, holding the rope with which he has lassoed a group of five young children who are on the right. Montague is wearing a cowboy hat, western shirt, dark pants, and black boots. Several spectators are gathered in the background. A sign posted to a tree says, "Bruce Montague, Roping Expert, Bandera."

Photograph of Tony Fill Fenoglio, coordinator of the Montague Texas Italian Bocce Club games, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He has medium-length wavy hair and a gray goatee. He is wearing sunglasses, a Texas Folklife Festival t-shirt, a red bandana tied around his neck, and a denim cap with no brim. The cap is covered with badges and patches, one of which says, "Texas-Italian Bocce Club." A patch on his shirt says, "Hello! I'm Fenoglio."

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