Southwestern Collection

The Board of Directors of the Texas State Historical Association has unanimously voted to hold the 2021 Annual Meeting online instead of in-person in Fort Worth, March 4–6. This decision was made primary to protect the health of our members; while we have all hoped that the impact of Covid-19 would diminish, health experts agree that the risk of large indoor gatherings will remain very high next March. Because of that, many members indicated they would not attend, and canceling now conserves financial resources that would have been paid to our host hotel. We also have an exciting online alternative that combines using Zoom and OpenWater, a meeting platform. Further updates will be available via email, social media, and tshaonline.org.

The cover of the program for the 1985 Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Fort Worth.

In Memoriam

Lloyd May "Cissy" Stewart Lale, president of the Texas State Historical Association in 1996–97, died in Fort Worth on May 4, 2020. She was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 15, 1924. She moved with her family to Cleburne in 1930, where she worked on the school's newspaper. After she graduated from high school on 1941, she attended the University of Texas in Austin, where she was a staff reporter for the Daily Texan. After graduating from UT in 1945, she embarked on a long career in journalism, working first for the Marshall News Messenger (1945–47). Later she worked for the Cleburne Times Review (1947–49) and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1949–87). Cissy's husband, Max (1916–2006), also served as president of the TSHA (1991–92), and remarkably both also served terms as president of the East Texas Historical Association.

New Award

The Texas State Historical Association has a new award available. The Lynna Kay Shuffield Memorial Award in Texas Jewish History is given annually to recognize an excellent work of scholarship in the field of Texas Jewish history. Eligible winners of the award include any graduate student or lay historian who has published a book, authored chapters in published books, authored articles published in scholarly journals, or published a post-graduate thesis or dissertation on a topic in the field of Texas Jewish history. For more information, visit https://www.tshaonline.org/awards/lynna-kay-shuffield-memorial-award.

Clippings

From now until January 23, 2021, Paul Chaplo's exhibit, Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country will show at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) in Canyon, Texas. The one-person exhibit will showcase his personal aerial photography of the high plains of the Llano Estacado, with a focus on the rugged escarpments and breaks in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The exhibit will be on the second floor in PPHM's Bivins Gallery and will feature approximately thirty-eight large format color photographs taken during Chaplo's aerial expeditions over nearly 40,000 square miles of land.

The work covers a large area from Horsehead Crossing north along the Mescalero Escarpment to the Canadian River Canyon and west to the Antelope Hills, Oklahoma, including Castle Gap, Casa Amarillas, Fort Bascom site, Alibates Flint Quarries, Palo Duro Canyon, and many more dramatic landscapes and historic sites. For more information, please visit https://www.panhandleplains.org/.

Dust Jackets

In 2018, San Antonio celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary, and several book publications marked the occasion. One that readers of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly might have missed is SAN ANTONIO: 300th Anniversary of its Birth, a collection of essays edited by Jorge Luis García Ruiz. Among the book's seven articles is Frank de la Teja's "Cattle Society and Cattle Drives in Spanish San Antonio." The book can be ordered online at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1705381359/ref=rdr_ext_tmb.

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