History and Culture of The Hill Country and South Texas plains

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History and Culture of The Hill Country and South
Texas plains

• By
• Garrett Jackson
• Hali Brewer
• Emily Milliet

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Folklore

• Passed by word of mouth or demonstration
• -Cotton eyed Joe is a traditional Texas dance.

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festivals

• The first Kerrville Folk Festival was held June 1
  through 3, 1972, in the 1,200-seat Kerrville
  Municipal Auditorium 2,800 fans from all over
  Texas and as far away as Colorado attended the
  thirteen-performer event. The festivals at
  Kerrville were a direct outgrowth of the Austin
  Zilker Park KHFI-FM Summer Music festivals
  (1964-68), the Chequered Flag folk music club on
  Lavaca Street in Austin (1967-70), and the eight
  Longhorn Jazz festivals (1966-73), as well as the
  "live" and recorded programs of Austin folk
  artists.

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The Alamo!

• This is the Alamo.
• The Bexar fell on March 6, 1835.
• In 1836 the land known as Alamo Heights was
  included as public land in the original survey of
  the city San Antonio.

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Hill Country - History

• Between 1840 and 1850 significant numbers of
  settlers, mostly southern mountaineers, had been
  attracted to the Hill Country
• The initial settlement of the remaining Hill
  Country counties occurred in the decade before
  the outbreak of the Civil War

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Hill Country - History

• By 1870 the population of Gillespie County was 86
  percent German, Comal 79 percent, Kendall 62
  percent, and Mason 56 percent

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Stephen Austin

• Brown Austin, was born in 1828. After his
  father's death on August 1829, the child was
  taken into the home of his aunt, Mrs. Emily
  Margaret Austin Perry.

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Stephen F. Austin, Jr., died at the home of Col.
W. G . Hill on February 2 1837

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Sam Houston!

• Sam Houston, one of the most illustrious
  political figures of Texas, was born on March 2,
  1793,
• On January 22, 1829, he married nineteen-year-old
  Eliza Allen of Gallatin, Tennessee.

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Emily Edwards!

• Emily Edwards, artist, historian, teacher, and
  cofounder of the San Antonio Conservation
  Society, was born in San Antonio on October 7,
  1888,
• Her mother died in 1895.
• In 1905 she moved to Chicago, where she stayed
  with relatives and attended the Art Institute art

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Festivals!

• Festivals in Texas, always featuring music or at
  least garnished by it, reflect a tradition of
  community cooperation and celebration that began
  at least as early as the arrival of permanent
  settlers their traditions with them
• Early European Texans of all faiths, occupations,
  and ethnic backgrounds brought.

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Fredericksburg - Oktoberfest

• OKTOBERFEST is a colorful, festive celebration
  of Fredericksburg, Texas' German heritage.
• OKTOBERFEST has become an annual tradition around
  the world.

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Austin - Festival
Annual spring event in Austin with several events
including tours of local wineries, cooking
seminars, and a rare wine auction.
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Laredo-Festivals!
Displays of sparkling gowns, photos and other
memorabilia tell the story of Laredo's
Washington's Birthday Celebration, now more than
a century old.
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San Antonio-Festival

• FIESTA SAN ANTONIO. Fiesta San Antonio,
  previously called Fiesta San Jacinto, is a
  ten-day festival held every spring in San
  Antonio. It originated in the 1891 flower parade
  conceived by Ellen Maury Slayden, wife of
  Congressman James L. Slayden, as an April 21
  salute to the heroes of the battles of the Alamo
  and San Jacinto.