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-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth H. Thiers
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Sent: 10/26/2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting Texas facts

In my younger years I bought a very interesting book from a barn sale in
Ohio.  I have a Lutheran prayer book written in German using Gothic
script, no copyright mark.  It's one of my prized posessions.  The
printing was done in St. Louis.

Beth T.
>
> From: "BG Greer, PhD" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2002/10/24 Thu PM 03:54:35 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Interesting Texas facts
>
> As an anthropology major you would be interested in some of the small
towns,
> like Kenedy, New Braunfels and other towns. New Braunfels townspeople
did not
> speak English until after WWII. It was 100% German, which lead to some
> interesting interactions during WWII. Today, some of those towns are
still
> VERY provincial, including Midland which Laura Bush just "loves".
>
> Bobby
>
> >I mean, after all the KKK is still pretty strong in rural
> >areas in the Sandhills part of the state.  I used to see handmade KKK
signs
> >along the back roads near my old college when I was a student there.
> >
> >Kat
>