Photograph of a living history reenactor dressed as a Civil War era soldier reporting to his superior in Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is standing on the left while his superior officer is sitting at a desk on the right. Behind the officer at the desk, a festival visitor is peeking inside through a window.

Photograph of Cindy Findley, from Edwards County, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a patterned shirt, and leather chaps, she is standing and speaking into a microphone. A painted backdrop of a wooden porch is partially visible behind her. Iris Dunn is seated behind Findley on the left.

Photograph of Iris Dunn, from Bee County, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a tea length skirt with ruffle eyelet trim, she is standing and speaking into a microphone. A painted backdrop of a wooden porch is partially visible behind her, as are two rocking chairs.

Photograph of Ace Reid, Guich Koock, and Paul Patterson telling stories onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Reid is on the left sitting in a tall wooden chair, while Koock is in the center sitting on a square hay bale. Patterson is on the right sitting in a rocking chair. All three men are wearing boots and cowboy hats.

Photograph of Ace Reid and Guich Koock telling stories onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Reid is on the left sitting in a tall wooden chair, while Koock is on the right sitting on a square hay bale. They are both wearing boots and cowboy hats and holding microphones.

Photograph of Bea Garrison, from Utopia, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a pioneer dress, a bonnet, and wire frame glasses, she is sitting in a rocking chair and is speaking into a microphone.

Photograph of Ed Bell, from Indianola, telling a story onstage with the help of a young audience member at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an admiral's cap, he is sitting in a rocking chair on the left and holding a microphone. A young girl wearing a plaid shirt and jeans is sitting in a rocking chair on the right and is speaking into a microphone. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.

Photograph of Ed Bell, from Indianola, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an admiral's cap, he is sitting in a rocking chair and holding a microphone. A painted backdrop of a wooden house front is partially visible behind him.

Photograph of Bea Garrison, from Utopia, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a long gingham skirt and sitting in a rocking chair on the right, she is facing a young girl with pigtails who is sitting on a square hay bale on the left. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.

Photograph of a woman demonstrating Origami at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing sunglasses and a shirt with floral detail, she is sitting a table, folding a small piece of paper.

Photograph of Sandy Grasso in the boot and shoe repair booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Antique boots and shoes are displayed on the table in front of her. On a shoe stand to the right, an antique Edwardian boot with a button flap is displayed. In the background, cobbler tools are displayed on pegboard.

Photograph of Bill Sallee telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two young girls with pigtails are sitting on the edge of the stage in front of him; the one on the left is holding a small wooden box. Sallee is sitting in a rocking chair, holding a microphone in one hand and a cowbell in the other. He has curly, bushy hair and is wearing glasses.

Photograph of festival visitors dancing to the music of a Tejano band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers are in the foreground while the band is onstage in the middle ground. Two trumpet players are in the center of the stage, flanked by a a couple of keyboard players.

Photograph of a Living History reenactor at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed in a blue Civil War era military uniform, he is loading his rifle while standing in front of two other soldier reenactors.

Photograph of three Living History reenactors at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed in blue Civil War era military uniforms, they are holding the barrels of their rifles while the stocks rest on the ground.

Photograph of a man and a woman in Civil War era costumes participating in the Living History reenactment at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man is wearing a military uniform: a wide brimmed hat, a dark belted coat with gold buttons and a bandanna around his neck. The woman is wearing a navy patterned dress with a white apron.

Photograph of Living History reenactors at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed in Civil War era clothing and military uniforms, they are sitting on wooden benches and chairs on the porch of Frontier Fort, an antique stone-built house.

Photograph of Steve Hartz from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a t-shirt and overalls, he is holding a violin like a guitar as he plucks it. He has brown curly hair and a beard.

Photograph of a boy fishing with a homemade fishing pole at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a t-shirt and jeans, the boy is holding a stick with fishing line attached to the end. He is fishing in a large metal tub, filled with water.

Photograph of a man demonstrating fish hook making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a striped tank top he is sitting on the right, holding a wooden stick. Standing beside him in the center, a little boy wearing a cap is attaching a string to a finished hook.

Photograph of a woman sitting with a beige lamb in her lap at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The lamb is from Swift Sheep Farm in Kingsbury, Texas. The woman, sitting in a lawn chair, is wearing a cap bearing the logo of the farm. She is talking to a man who is squatting on the ground on the right.

Photograph of Sandy Booth in a blue bonnet and a pioneer dress weaving on a table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of the Brazoria Militia reenactors showing Texas life in 1832.

Photograph of the sheep from Swift Sheep Farm in Kingsbury, Texas at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a shirtless boy wearing jeans is leaning over a sheep, laying his head on its back. On the other side of the sheep, a man in a cap is sitting in a lawn chair. Behind them is a pen containing many sheep.

Photograph of Debbie Morelock, from Brownwood, making a broom at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a blue gingham dress and a mob cap, she is sitting in a chair, working on a straw broom. Long bunches of straw are laying on the grass around her.