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18 Local Co-op News Get the latest information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative. 29 Texas History Prohibited by City Ordnance By Martha Deeringer

31 Recipes Desserts Made With Candy 35 Focus on Texas Photo Contest: Stepping Out 36 Around Texas List of Local Events 38 Hit the Road Midland’s Manor of Oil and Culture By E. Dan Klepper

Before co-ops brought ONLINE electricity, rural homes were lit by kerosene lamps. TexasCoopPower.com Find these stories online if they don’t appear in your edition of the magazine. FEATURES Texas USA The Power of Your Cooperative Around the world, Alvin’s Deluge: It Reigns By E.R. Bills 8 the co-op ethos strengthens communities By Gene Fowler Observations My Way J. Frank Dobie Rides Again The writing of “Mr. Texas” By John Taliaferro 12 characterizes the state as it assumed a Western identity By Lonn Taylor NEXT MONTH Songwriting With Soldiers How singer Darden Smith learned to put his creative energy to work for veterans. 29 35

31 38 HISTORIC IMAGE: NRECA. GUITAR: BERTYS30 | DOLLAR PHOTO CLUB ON THE COVER Pedernales EC linemen and NRECA International bring electricity to Côteaux, Haiti. Photo courtesy NRECA

TEXAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS: David Marricle, Chair, Muleshoe; Mark Tamplin, Vice Chair, Kirbyville; Bryan Lightfoot, Secretary-Treasurer, Bartlett; Mike R. Hagy, Tipton, Oklahoma; William F. Hetherington, Bandera; Mark Rollans, Hondo; Anne Vaden, Corinth • PRESIDENT/CEO: Mike Williams, Austin • COMMUNICATIONS & MEMBER SERVICES COMMITTEE: Jerry Boze, Kaufman; Rick Haile, McGregor; Greg Henley, Tahoka; Billy Marricle, Bellville; Mark McClain, Roby; Blaine Warzecha, Victoria; Kathy Wood, Marshall • MAGAZINE STAFF: Martin Bevins, Vice President, Communications & Member Services; Charles J. Lohrmann, Editor; Tom Widlowski, Associate Editor; Karen Nejtek, Production Manager; Andy Doughty, Creative Manager; Grace Arsiaga, Print Production Specialist; Chris Carlson, Communications & Member Services Assistant; Anna Ginsberg, Food Editor; Suzanne Halko, Copy Editor; Randall Maxwell, Videographer/ Photographer; Jane Sharpe, Graphic Designer; Ellen Stader, Copy Editor; Karen Taylor, Communications & Member Services Assistant; Shannon Oelrich, Proofreader

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LOCAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE EDITION Windmill History Smartphone Traveler Spicy Foods Muleshoe’s Cranes Yes, We Did Can JULY 2015 I found your article on the past I remember my mother telling how the government and present use of windmills in sent people into Houston County during the Depres- Texas very interesting [“Drawing sion to teach others how to can with cans [“Yes, You Power From Thin Air,” June 2015]. I previously had only a very vague Can!” July 2015]. Mother was still canning when understanding as to the key purpose she was in her 80s and 90s, but her choice for yes, they played in the history of the canning was glass jars. YOU CAN! state. The part of the article that She was canning pear preserves the morning A new twist on an old-fashioned pursuit addresses the recent resurgence of of her heart attack at age 85. She lived to be 104. windmills for power generation also Mother was Verna Harrison Duren and was one sparked my interest. of the first co-op members when it came through SAM MAGUIRE | AUSTIN this area. VIRGINIA DUREN SHERER | BELOTT | HOUSTON COUNTY EC Who’s Your Granddaddy? Your article, “Granddaddy of Them All” [July 2015], reminded me of how that oil discovery changed lives and in church. At every service of the to be home. Her comment was, “Oh, Thank you for publishing an excel- communities. We cannot forget what Church of Christ, the 12th-largest I am addicted to the West Texas sky!” lent article, “Right With the World” it meant to our nation in wartime. religious organization in the country, KAY SMITH | SAN ANGELO AND PAINT ROCK [August 2015]. Generations have pro- The “Big Inch” pipeline was one can hear and participate in a CONCHO VALLEY EC vided food, trained children and just created by the federal government cappella four-part harmony using a enjoyed God’s blessings at camp. to supply fuel for our armed services. variety of hymn books, all written in Right With the World? I grinned from ear to ear when My father worked on the pipeline shape notes and many published in The photograph on the cover of your Mike Leggett wrote about Little at its very inception in Kilgore. The the 21st century. August 2015 issue is a sad reminder Debbie breakfast pies, holding little 24-inch pipeline ran more than 1,500 SUNNY STEPHENS | POTEET of how adults teach children in ones’ hands in the dark and “things miles to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, KARNES EC Texas that using guns to kill nature’s that go bump in the night.” and on to New Jersey. creatures at will is trophy sport. Unfortunately, we don’t hear After the war, the Big Inch was Big Texas Skies The story implies that as long as enough about traditions like these sold to the highest bidder. Texas Loved the photo and story, “Texas these people who kill are content anymore, and it’s really too bad. investors bought the pipeline to Skies” [August 2015]. It reminded with themselves, they care not about DAVID HULSLANDER | LUCAS transport natural gas to the East. me of when my West Texas-raised the creatures they kill. GRAYSON-COLLIN EC They called it “Texas Eastern,” and daughter moved back home after a MARTY JONES | ALLEN it is still in use today. And it all time in New Jersey and was joyful COSERV ELECTRIC began in Kilgore. GET MORE TCP AT TOM TERRY TexasCoopPower.com CHEROKEE COUNTY EC Sign up for our E-Newsletter for monthly updates, prize drawings Shaping Notes and more! “In Harmony and in Shape” [August 2015] described a cappella singing, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! in harmony, using shape notes. This ONLINE: TexasCoopPower.com/share is widely known as “sol-fa” and was EMAIL: [email protected] the method used by Julie Andrews’ MAIL: Editor, Texas Co-op Power, 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, character to teach the Von Trapp Austin, TX 78701 children to sing in the 1960s film Please include your town and electric co-op. The Sound of Music. Letters may be edited for clarity and length. My husband and I, and millions of other singers, learned to sing and read music in this fashion as children Texas Co-op Power Magazine

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HAPPENINGS Official Boonville Days Nods to Brazos County History State Artists

Boonville was the first county seat of Brazos County, probably named in honor of Mordecai Boon Sr., nephew of Daniel Boone, according to the Texas State Histori- cal Association. After the Civil War, the town slowly disappeared once the county H seat was moved to nearby Bryan. Lost for decades, Boonville’s exact location was rediscovered in 1976. Did you know Texas For 10 years, the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in Bryan has been has a state poet laureate— San Antonio’s Carmen Tafolla? commemorating local history with Boonville Days, October 10 this year. The In conjunction with the heritage fair features a chuck wagon cook-off and demonstrations of 19th-century Texas Commission on the Arts, skills, crafts, art, and music and dance. The day kicks off with the Buffalo Stampede, the Legislature biennially a half marathon and 5-kilometer run. appoints a state poet laureate, musician, two-dimensional artist and 3-D artist for the cur- INFO: brazosvalleymuseum.org, (979) 776-2195 rent year and a person in each category for the following year. In addition to Tafolla, the honorees for 2015 are: Jimmie Vaughan, musician; Vincent Valdez, two-dimensional artist; and Margo Sawyer, 3-D artist. The 2016 honorees are: Laurie Ann Guerrero, poet laureate; Joe Ely, musician; Dornith Doherty, two-dimensional artist; and Dario Robleto, 3-D artist. Texas state artists are rec- ognized for their contributions to the state and the advance- ment of their respective art forms. The governor, lieu- tenant governor and speaker of the House of Representa- tives appoint a committee that Find more happenings all selects the artists. across the state at TexasCoopPower .com

Electric Cooperative in Roby holds a member appreciation day and Cooperative Month and open house—October 15 this year. Members who stopped by last year received an energy-efficiency kit that included a power strip, a night- That “Small Extra Touch” light, several LED bulbs, a water-saving showerhead, a fridge/freezer thermometer, silicone caulk and a refrigerator coil brush. “Last year, we had the opportunity to visit one-on-one with October is Cooperative Month, an excellent opportunity to shine around 240 of our members, which we wouldn’t have had the oppor- the light on electric co-ops, which are member-owned and com- tunity to do otherwise,” says Sarah McLen, key accounts executive at mitted to demonstrating concern for the community. Big Country EC. “It’s just a small extra touch that sets us apart from

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6 Texas Co-op Power October 2015 TexasCoopPower.com Legislature ENERGY UPDATE Honors Texas Texas Blows Other Youth Tour States Away Texas has 14,200 megawatts of wind-generating Texas Electric Cooperatives’ celebration of capacity, more than twice the installed capacity of any 50 years of participation in the Govern- other state, according to a report released at the end ment-in-Action Youth Tour included the of April by the American Wind Energy Association. adoption of House Resolution 2553, which One MW is enough to power about 200 homes during congratulated member cooperatives and periods of peak demand, according to the Electric the program for sending thousands of high Reliability Council of Texas, the grid operator for most school students to Washington, D.C. of the state. State Rep. Brooks Landgraf of Odessa, More than 8,500 wind turbines operate in Texas, gener- below, sponsored the resolution. He was ating 10.6 percent of the state’s electricity generation mix in 2014. Most joined at the lectern by 10 representatives utility-grade wind turbines have an expected operating lifespan of more than 20 years. who have electric co-ops in their districts More wind turbine facts: The towers for wind turbines are typically 260–320 feet tall. and who supported Landgraf in presenting Blades, made of composites of wood, fiberglass, resin and carbon, can be up to 260 feet the resolution on the House floor May 20. long and weight 6–10 tons each. Tip speeds can reach 200 mph. (Watch it at tinyurl.com/ytresolution.) Landgraf attended Youth Tour as an Odessa Permian High School student in 1998, one of 3,844 Texans who have made the trip since 1965. “I’m proud to say I’m FOLLOWING UP one of them,” he said. “In fact, that was one of my first experiences with public service.” “Rep. Landgraf and the others who Crumley on the Family Tree joined him showed their support not only for the Youth Tour but for electric co-ops generally,” said Eric Craven, TEC’s senior vice president of government relations and legal affairs. Youth Tour 2015 was in June, when 125 Texas teens spent a week in Washington, visiting many historic sites and meeting with their congressional representatives.

WEB EXTRAS at TexasCoopPower.com • Tinyurl.com/ytresolution: Watch Landgraf present the House resolution. • TexasYouthTour.com • Facebook.com/texasyouthtouralumni Nell Clover has been a genealogist for about 50 years, connecting branches on her family tree. Her latest discovery jumped off our magazine pages. “The Old Indian Doctor,” the March 2015 Texas History feature, included a photograph of Dr. Benjamin Thomas Crumley—Doc Crumley—from probably the late 1800s. Clover, a member of Cherokee County Electric Coopera- tive, has a family photo hanging in her house, and she now knows the man standing second from the left is Doc Crumley. Clover’s husband was Clarence Harvey Clover. His great-grandparents were John and Cassie Alexander. Cassie’s sister Lulu was married to Doc Crumley. “There’s no question it’s the same man,” Clover says. Until she saw the story, Crumley was just another name in one of her many notebooks.

TexasCoopPower.com October 2015 Texas Co-op Power 7 AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE AND AROUND THE WORLD, THE CO-OP ETHOS IN APRIL 1939, Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson described the co-op model: “These cooperatives are owned by the folks who will get their electric power from them,” explained the future president. “Before, it has been impossible for rural residents to have the same advantages city folks enjoy because the cost of getting electricity to them has been prohibitive. Forming a cooperative, they are able to borrow money from the REA at low interest rates and buy power at cost.” In Texas and all across America, the lights came on in the countryside. “I’ll live longer, now that I can enjoy some of the comforts that electricity brings,” 103-year-old Charlotte Francis Knight of Shelby County told the press in 1939. Born just weeks after Texas became an independent nation, Knight marveled at the wonders delivered by Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative of San Augustine: “One of the main reasons I wish I were younger is that I could then enjoy electricity longer.” In 2015, some 42 million Americans receive their kilowatt magic from rural electric co-ops; 99 percent of U.S. farms are connected to the cooperative grid. In the mid-1930s, however, 90 percent of rural homes still lacked electricity. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration by executive order in 1935, and, a year later, Con- gress passed the Rural Electrification Act. Most of today’s 900 rural electric co-ops were started with loans from the REA. In 2015, the cooperative model turns on the lights in several countries around the world, thanks to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s international programs. “Today’s co- op community doesn’t always remember what it was like when the lights came on in rural America more than 75 years ago,” explains NRECA International Foundation Executive Director Marc Breslaw, “but that’s what we’re doing with our international programs.” NRECA International reaches more than 110 million people through more than 200 co-ops. The electric co-op in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, is the largest in the world. These programs are not the first instance of cooperative values crossing international boundaries. The cooperative model is generally traced back to 1844, when the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England, established guidelines that have evolved into the Seven Cooperative Principles: Open and Volun- tary Membership; Democratic Member Control; Members’ Eco- nomic Participation; Autonomy and Independence; Education, Training and Information; Cooperation Among Cooperatives; and Concern for Community These principles inspired the United Nations to declare 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting cooperatives’ role in reducing poverty, creating jobs and socially integrating the world population. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated at the time, “Cooperatives are a The Haitian village of Côteaux reminder to the international com- has co-op electricity thanks munity that it is possible to pursue

STRENGTHENS COMMUNITIES NRECA to NRECA International. both economic viability and social

October 2015 Texas Co-op Power 9 10 Texas Co-op Power October 2015 TexasCoopPower.com responsibility.” At that time, it was estimated that nearly 1 billion viding for the organization of cooperative, non-profit, membership people were member-owners of co-ops.The contemporary co-op corporations for the purpose of engaging in rural electrification.” model is not just for rural distribution of electricity. Well-known Bartlett Electric Cooperative became the first REA-funded companies that employ the cooperative model include Blue Dia- rural co-op in the nation to turn on the lights—in 1936. Texas mond Almonds, Welch’s, Ace Hardware, Land O’Lakes, Sunkist Electric Cooperatives was formed in 1941 as a coalition of rural and REI. electric co-ops. Today, TEC has 75 member co-ops serving 3 mil- In Texas, the co-op spirit was in the air as early as 1843 when lion Texans. Henri Castro, the founder of Castroville, wrote about a plan to “Our duty is to Main Street, not Wall Street,” proclaims the establish an agricultural cooperative in his colony west of San website of the Nueces Electric Cooperative in Robstown, a sen- Antonio. That co-op appears to have faltered before it took root, timent shared by co-ops from the Piney Woods to the High Plains. but according to the Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council, The statement reflects cooperatives’ deep sense of community, Texas today is home to more than 200 agricultural, finance, elec- manifested in volunteer programs such as Operation Round Up, tric, farm credit and telephone cooperatives. which rounds electric bills up to the nearest dollar, with the addi- Plains Cotton Cooperative Association in Lubbock, with tional money used to support community needs. Many TEC 15,000 members in four states, helps growers get their product member co-ops, including Medina Electric Cooperative, offer to market at the best price. John Johnson, the association’s pub- free presentations on safety and energy efficiency. lic relations manager, has seen a lot of changes in his 31 years. Scholarships, blood drives, food drives and other programs “We’re always looking for ways to improve,” he says. “Now we’ve illustrate the fulfillment of the Seventh Cooperative Principle, developed software accounting programs for gins and modular Concern for Community. One program, the Government-in- tracking systems that help ginners know where the cotton is Action Youth Tour, gives selected co-op high school students at any given time.” an experience they remember for the rest of their lives. The stu-

But time-tested cooperative traditions, Johnson adds, don’t dents spend an educational week in Washington, D.C., meeting change: “All of our net margins are paid back to members in the with their congressional representatives and visiting sites such form of dividends or stock allocations.” as the Smithsonian Institution, Capitol Hill, the Library of Con- The Tip-Of-Texas Agriculture Producers Farmers’ Coopera- gress, Arlington National Cemetery and many other landmarks. tive Society of Cameron County, with 16 members, demonstrates Daniel Sanders of Navasota went on the Youth Tour in 2008, the benefits of the cooperative model for a smaller group. “We which led to an invitation to attend the National Rural Electric share information about bugs and other issues,” says Adrian de Cooperative Association’s annual meeting in 2009. There, he was los Santos, former secretary of the co-op. “And we have more inspired by learning about the NRECA’s international outreach marketing and supply-buying power by forming a co-op.” to bring electric power to underdeveloped parts of the world. The small group is also open to new ideas. When a novice Back in Navasota, Sanders worked as a lineman for Mid-South farmer named Bill Crawford called de los Santos two years ago Synergy while he finished college, and when an NRECA Inter- looking for organic sugarcane, the only area grower (other than national position opened up in summer 2013, it wasn’t long before the large operations growing cane for sugar mills) was Nam he was on a plane. Nguyen, who sold his cane to Vietnamese restaurants in Houston. “I get to be part of the first Haitian co-op being formed,” “Bill got a group of farmers interested in bottling the juice,” de Sanders says. “I want to increase the quality of life for other peo- los Santos says. “It’s a growing niche market. People from India ple. The Jacqueziel community received electricity for the first and Pakistan are used to drinking sugarcane juice, but everyone time when we turned on the lights in September 2013. There who tries it likes it.” were people clapping and dancing, and crying—I knew then that The tremendous changes brought to rural Texas by New Deal this is the best job ever.” electrification in the 1930s and 1940s supported the Texas agri- Gene Fowler is an Austin writer who specializes in history. cultural economy. Though some associations in Texas cities referred to themselves as “electric cooperatives” before 1937, the WEB EXTRAS at TexasCoopPower.com Learn about co-op special projects 45th Texas Legislature that year prohibited such designation by and watch videos showing how NRECA International electrification projects entities other than those allowed by House Bill 599, “An Act pro- change lives.

Clockwise, from top left: Rural electrification created jobs at co-ops. NRECA International helps train electrical workers in Haiti. Co-ops brought electricity to rural American after Congress passed the Rural Electrification Act in 1936. It was an exciting day when classrooms got lightbulbs for the first time. A Victoria Electric Cooperative crew stands by a delivery of new poles. Mid-South Synergy’s Daniel Sanders uses a coloring book to

BOTTOM LEFT: VICTORIA EC, ALL OTHERS: NRECA NRECA ALL OTHERS: EC, VICTORIA LEFT: BOTTOM teach a Haitian boy in Caracol about electricity and safety. A Pedernales Electric Cooperative lineman works in Haiti.

TexasCoopPower.com October 2015 Texas Co-op Power 11 J. Frank Dobie emerged as Texas’ spokesman because his writings reflected his ability to get ranchers and cowboys to tell their stories. A celebration of Dobie’s writing—called Dobie Dichos— takes place in Oakville. The event, November 6 this year, is part of George West Storyfest.

12 Texas Co-op Power October 2015 TexasCoopPower.com J. FRANK DOBIE RIDES AGAIN

The folklorist writing of “Mr. Texas” characterizes the state as it assumed a Western identity

BY LONN TAYLOR

is hard for me to write dispassionately about a thousand times more for experience than for me.” J. Frank Dobie’s books because the first adult book If I had to classify Dobie as a writer, I would have to put him I ever read was his Legends of Texas, first published with the regionalists, a group of American writers who flourished in 1924. My grandmother gave it to me when I was in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s and extolled the virtue of regional 7 years old, and I devoured it. It was the first book I differences over mass culture and rural life over industrialism. Ihad Tever read that referred to people I knew about. They included Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Lewis Mumford, Dobie’s uncle, Jim Dobie, who figures in several of the legends, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Mary Austin, John once courted my grandmother’s little sister. Judge W.P. McLean, G. Neihardt, Bernard DeVoto, Zora Neale Hurston, Oliver La who hunted for Moro’s gold, was a family friend in Fort Worth. Farge and Mari Sandoz. That book made the connection between life and literature for Many of these writers forged links to the emerging academic me. I moved on to other Dobie books, and my first adolescent study of folklore and drew on material gathered by folklorists writing efforts were bad imitations of Dobie’s tale-telling. such as B.A. Botkin and Dobie’s friend John A. Lomax; some con- Although I occasionally saw Dobie on the Drag near the sidered themselves folklorists. A few were utopians, attempting Universtiy of Texas in Austin, I never had the courage to walk up to formulate a culture based on American roots as an alternative to him and introduce myself. By many accounts, he was a nice man, to what they perceived as an alien European culture being dis- although Américo Paredes cruelly parodied him as the patron- seminated from New York. All were antimodernists, wistfully izing blowhard K. Hank Harvey in his George Washington Gómez, clinging to an image of an older and apparently simpler America, a novel written in the 1930s but not published until 1990, long the “sunny slopes of long ago” that Lomax and Dobie used to after Dobie’s death. Stephen Harrigan paints an unflattering toast, the “old rock” that Dobie’s cattlemen heroes were cut from. picture of him as Vance Martindale, a callow and ambitious Eng- But Dobie was different from most of his fellow regionalists. lish professor, in his novel Remembering Ben Clayton. In his 2009 They expressed themselves in fiction, poetry or, in the case of biography, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind, Steven L. Davis Mumford and DeVoto, essays and historical narratives, often traces Dobie’s intellectual development but says little about his based on folk sources. Dobie, as far as I know, never attempted a personal life except that in 1919, when his wife, Bertha, was struck novel or published a poem. What Dobie excelled at was turning with the Spanish influenza, Dobie chose to remain with the peace- oral narratives into short written pieces. He had an ability to get time Army in France, where he was enrolled in the Sorbonne, people to talk, a sharp ear for cadence and language, and an rather than apply for a transfer home to be with her. Davis quotes uncanny ability to create a stage for his narrator. Most of his 20

AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER | AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTER | AUSTIN HISTORY AUSTIN a letter that she wrote Dobie but never mailed, saying that he “cares books are, in fact, strings of finely crafted anecdotes derived from

TexasCoopPower.com October 2015 Texas Co-op Power 13 Dobie visits with an elderly man. A manuscript of Dobie’s The Alamo Enters into Immortality, circa 1936, is among the collection of his papers at the Briscoe Center for American History.

Dobie’s focus on oral tradition stemmed from his conviction that the narratives of old-timers had a value in themselves and did not need to be adapted into fiction or poetry to have communicative power.

interviews with stove-up cowboys, prospectors and desert rats. identity and assuming a new and dynamic one as part of the Dobie’s focus on oral tradition stemmed from his conviction West, and Dobie wrote about ranchers and cowboys. When the that the narratives of old-timers had a value in themselves and centennial celebration came, Dobie was smack in the middle of did not need to be adapted into fiction or poetry to have com- it. He served on the Advisory Board of Texas Historians that XAS AT AUSTIN AT XAS municative power. Literary historian Robert L. Dorman writes reported to the Commission of Control for Texas Centennial that Dobie saw their unadorned and unmediated words as artistic Celebrations, got into a public dispute with the sculptor Pompeo creations that contained truths about “the mind, the metaphor, Coppini about the Alamo Cenotaph, published The Flavor of and the mores of the common people” that escaped academic Texas, and emerged as “Mr. Texas,” the state’s best-known historians. Dorman says Dobie disdained the “Ph.D.s who could spokesman. When the national spotlight shined on Texas, it illu- write historical learned monographs on ‘Utah Carl’ and ‘Little minated J. Frank Dobie. Joe Wrangler’ ” that would be full of “ethnological palaver” and Dobie’s reputation declined after his death, reaching its nadir would obscure the experience of hearing the singer or narrator in Larry McMurtry’s ill-tempered 1981 denunciation of his books “vivid and alive.” as “a congealed mass of virtually undifferentiated anecdotage: Dobie’s A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929) so closely paral- endlessly repetitious, thematically empty, structureless, and leled the handwritten narrative of its subject, a retired cowboy carelessly written.” named John D. Young, that many years after it was published, it I don’t think he was as bad as all that. It’s true that he never became the object of litigation among Young’s heirs, the Dobie wrote anything to equal Cather’s O Pioneers! or Faulkner’s estate and the University of Texas, and it was reissued in 1998 with Absalom, Absalom!, but his books did make Texans, with their both Young’s and Dobie’s names on the title page as co-authors. inherited cultural inferiority complex, realize that their native soil was fertile with literary inspiration, and they gave ordinary people a place in history long before “people’s history” became uch of Dobie’s popularity stemmed from being in fashionable. Most of all, he knew how to tell a good story. the right place at the right time. The oil-rich state Lonn Taylor, widely published author and former historian at the Smith- of Texas was attracting national attention in the sonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, lives in Fort Davis. early 1930s, preparing for the 1936 centennial cele- M bration by shedding its southern former Confederate WEB EXTRAS at TexasCoopPower.com UT Press gives Dobie books new life. OF TE | THE UNIVERISTY AMERICAN HISTORY CENTER FOR THE DOLPH BRISCOE MANUSCRIPT: PUBLIC LIBRARY. CENTER | AUSTIN HISTORY AUSTIN 14 Texas Co-op Power October 2015 TexasCoopPower.com ® IT’S AGGIE ® TEXAS A&M AGGIES TIME! COLLECTOR’S WATCH

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By Kathy Warbelow hen a friend recruited Shane Kernell to a hospital in the Texas Panhandle about a decade ago, he jumped at the chance. W “I knew the guy and wanted to work for him,” said Kernell, whose experience had been only in urban hospitals. “A hospital is a hospital, right? Little did I know. The challenges are vastly different — not even close.” Kernell quickly got an education in rural health care. Stagnant or falling rural populations, high rates of uninsured patients and cuts in reimbursements under Med- icaid and Medicare — the federal insurance programs for low-income people and SERIES: How growth those over 65 — mean many is shaping hospitals struggle to keep Central Texas’ future their doors open. It’s diffi cult to recruit doctors to rural areas, he said, where pay is lower, hours longer and career opportunities for spouses limited. In mid-2013, Kernell became CEO of St. Mark’s Medi- cal Center in La Grange. He considers himself lucky: The 10-year-old, 65-bed, 100,000-square-foot hospital draws patients from an area of about 50,000 residents — primarily Lee and Fayette counties, but also Bastrop and other surrounding areas. The 25 staff doctors include two orthopedic specialists, an obstetrician and a pediatrician. A nonfi nancial relation-

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A patient’s view of the new CAT scan machine at Bluebonnet’s Board of Directors will meet at 9 a.m. Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital in Luling, complete Oct. 20, at Bluebonnet’s Headquarters, 155 Electric with a smiling Mike Wheeler, CT technologist Ave., (formerly 650 Texas Hwy. 21 East), Bastrop. and X-ray tech. The lovely mountain scene at Find the agenda and last-minute updates Oct. 16 at the top is part of the machine, something to bluebonnet.coop. Hover your cursor over ‘next board help patients relax during a procedure. The meeting’ on our home page. hospital covers a 523-square-mile area and provides $12 million in charity care a year. CONTACT US Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative P.O. Box 729 ship with St. David’s HealthCare, the Austin-based medical Bastrop, TX 78602 network, means St. Mark’s can send patients who need ad- Member services: 800-842-7708, Monday through vanced care to one of St. David’s larger urban hospitals. Friday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. “We’re not typical,” Kernell said. He compared running Email: [email protected] a rural hospital to fl ying a fi ghter jet with no squadron to provide protection. OUTAGES The 14 counties in Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s ser- Call 800-949-4414 if you have a power outage. Keep vice area include independent hospitals such as St. Mark’s up with outages 24/7 at bluebonnet.coop. Hover and others that are part of larger hospital systems, such as your cursor over ‘outage report’ on our home page. You can also send us a text message: To get started, text the 25-bed Scott & White Hospital BBOUTAGE to 85700 and follow the prompts. Save in Taylor. But there are also areas that number in your contacts, perhaps as “Bluebonnet with limited access to primary care Outages.” If your power goes out, text OUT to that doctors and advanced emergency number. If you have our free mobile app for Android or iPhone, you can report an outage on your smartphone. care. There are only two pediatricians in ONLINE Caldwell County, which has about 41,000 residents, and about 11,000 Like us on Facebook! of them are younger than 19, accord- Follow us on Twitter! ing to the Texas State Data Center. Shane Kernell, CEO Connect with us on LinkedIn! of St. Mark’s Medical Burleson County, with about 17,500 Center in La Grange residents, has only three primary See our videos on YouTube! care doctors, and no pediatricians or ob-gyns, according to ABOUT THIS ISSUE the Texas Medical Board. The shortage of doctors is a national issue. Rural areas Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative produced the blue- bordered pages 18-25 in this issue of the magazine have 17 percent of the nation’s population, but only 10 per- with content that is of speciﬁ c interest or relevance cent of its doctors, according to the National Rural Health to Bluebonnet members. The rest of the magazine’s Association. content is distributed statewide to any member of an electric cooperative in Texas. For information about the “Texas is not seeing many new physicians going into ru- magazine, contact Janet Wilson at 512-750-5483 or Continued on next page email [email protected]. bluebonnet.coop bluebonnet.coop October 2015 BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE Texas Co-op Power 19

BLUEBONNET MAG OCT 2015.indd 17 9/8/15 5:57 PM ‘We don’t have enough doctors, period, in Texas, and when rural and urban areas compete, rural areas generally lose.’ DON MCBEATH, Director of government relations for the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals

Continued from previous page ral areas, especially primary care,” said Don Mc- Nurse Jennifer Torres plugs the Luling hospital’s Care-a-Van mobile health clinic into a power Beath, director of government relations for the outlet after driving it to Prairie Lea. Every weekday, the clinic travels to schools, churches Texas Organization of Rural and Community and community centers in the Caldwell County area to provide inexpensive, basic care for Hospitals. kids, including immunizations, medicine, lab tests and check-ups. Physician assistant Tiffany “Rural doctors are getting older, and there’s McDonald-Marsh, right, examines a child during the stop. no backfi ll to replace them,” he said. A medical school graduate with debt of $100,000 or more is likely to go to an urban area to make more money. Primary care doctors in area counties “We don’t have enough doctors, period, in Texas, and when rural and urban areas compete, rural ar- A big challenge for rural health care is the County Primary care Population eas generally lose,” McBeath said. shortage of primary care doctors, including physicians per doctor family physicians, pediatricians and ob-gyns. With a shortage of primary care doctors, rural hos- Austin 7 4,490 pitals often are the front line of care for the counties The federal government defi nes a shortage as Bastrop 26 3,214 they serve. St. Mark’s, for example, runs a weekday any area with a population-to-physician ratio Burleson 3 6,074 satellite clinic in Flatonia southwest of La Grange, higher than 3,500-to-1, or a ratio of 3,000-to-1 period, about 65 rural hospitals closed. This year Caldwell 16 2,638 staffed by a family medicine nurse practitioner and if the area has a high demand for primary care alone, at least three Texas hospitals have closed an orthopedic clinic near the hospital. But economic services. Colorado 17 1,270 their in-patient services and remain open only as challenges have forced a growing number of rural Fayette 12 2,164 emergency facilities. McBeath said it’s possible Five of the 14 counties served by Bluebonnet hospitals to close, McBeath said. Gonzales 12 1,739 that 10 or 12 more rural hospitals will close within The 15-bed Lakeside Hospital in Bastrop Electric Cooperative exceed the 3,000-to-1 Guadalupe 48 3,135 a year. struggled fi nancially before closing in 2010. The standard, and nine have a ratio higher than The shutdowns affect more than health care. nearest alternative was Seton Smithville Regional the statewide average. Hays 109 1,731 They have an economic impact as well, because lo- Hospital, about 15 miles way. In mid-2012, St. Lee 5 3,524 The fi gures do not refl ect where doctors are cal hospitals often are among the largest employers David’s HealthCare took over the vacant Bastrop located within a county, but doctors tend to Milam 10 2,555 in their communities, Kernell of St. Mark’s said. facility and runs it as a stand-alone emergency work in urban or suburban areas, where there Travis 1,094 1,023 care center, with outpatient services only. are more patients. Patients with more serious injuries are sent to its Washington 28 1,261 A career devoted to St. David’s South Austin hospital. The data is from the Texas Medical Board, as Williamson 389 1,280 rural health care Cuts in federal Medicare reimbursement rates of September 2014. State of Texas 19,277 1,409 several years ago hit rural hospitals hard, because Martin Weiner is a classic country doctor who they operate in areas with older populations. They for 35 years delivered babies, set broken arms and took another hard hit in 2011, when the Texas visited elderly patients in nursing homes. At 73, Legislature cut nearly $35 million in Medicaid re- he closed his Luling practice earlier this year to imbursements to rural hospitals — rates that were travel with his wife and spend more time with his already not enough to cover the cost of providing six children and 13 grandchildren. care. Legislators restored about $29 million of that Weiner came to rural health care via an unusual in the 2013 session, but the cuts were too much for route. In the 1970s, he worked for Hewlett-Pack- some hospitals, McBeath said. ard in Silicon Valley, researching light-emitting The reimbursement cuts were the fi nal blow for diodes, the technology used in LED lighting. But some hospitals. Since the start of 2013, at least 13 the work didn’t satisfy him. Texas rural hospitals have closed, McBeath said, “The corporate life was just not for me,” Weiner leaving 168 across the state. Nationwide in that said. “People will have slightly brighter light bulbs. Is that what I want to do with my life?” Weiner’s real passion was to be a country doc- Dr. Martin Weiner, right, represents a tor. So he went to medical school, got a degree in vanishing breed: independent primary care 1979 and looked for jobs near San Antonio, where doctors in rural areas. He recently retired his wife, Phyllis, was starting graduate school in after a decades-long career as a family psychology. He saw an ad for a position in Luling, physician and an ER doctor in Luling. The came to town for the interview and got the posi- difficulties of running a private practice — tion at then city-owned Edgar B. Davis Hospital. complete with insurance hassles, federal Weiner had a family practice, with his offi ce on mandates and soaring costs of drugs and lab the hospital grounds, and worked part-time in the tests — made his work increasingly difficult. emergency room. The better-paying ER work off-

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BLUEBONNET MAG OCT 2015.indd 18 9/8/15 5:57 PM Nurse Jennifer Torres plugs the Luling hospital’s Care-a-Van mobile health clinic into a power outlet after driving it to Prairie Lea. Every weekday, the clinic travels to schools, churches and community centers in the Caldwell County area to provide inexpensive, basic care for kids, including immunizations, medicine, lab tests and check-ups. Physician assistant Tiffany McDonald-Marsh, right, examines a child during the stop.

period, about 65 rural hospitals closed. This year tients and the community. But the growing com- alone, at least three Texas hospitals have closed plications of running an independent practice frus- their in-patient services and remain open only as trated him. It was such a hassle to deal with private emergency facilities. McBeath said it’s possible insurance companies that Weiner eventually ac- that 10 or 12 more rural hospitals will close within cepted only Medicaid and Medicare. He preferred a year. to keep patient charts on paper, but federal man- The shutdowns affect more than health care. dates require doctors to switch to electronic medi- They have an economic impact as well, because local records — another issue that would take time cal hospitals often are among the largest employers away from face-to-face time with patients. The sky- in their communities, Kernell of St. Mark’s said. rocketing costs of drugs and laboratory tests were a heavy burden for his lower-income patients. A career devoted to Last December, Weiner started telling his patients he was retiring and helped them make ap- rural health care pointments with Dr. Jamilla Stone, a family practitioner in Luling who grew up in the area. Martin Weiner is a classic country doctor who for 35 years delivered babies, set broken arms and Amid doctor shortfall, visited elderly patients in nursing homes. At 73, he closed his Luling practice earlier this year to hospital steps in travel with his wife and spend more time with his six children and 13 grandchildren. Independent primary care doctors like Martin Weiner came to rural health care via an unusual Weiner are a thing of the past in rural areas, said route. In the 1970s, he worked for Hewlett-Pack- Resources were scarce when Apryl Haynes Apryl Haynes, chief operating officer and head ard in Silicon Valley, researching light-emitting started working as a volunteer at the Edgar of nursing at the Luling hospital. She started her diodes, the technology used in LED lighting. But B. Davis Hospital in 1988, and the issue medical career there after high school as a volun- the work didn’t satisfy him. remains. Today, Haynes is the CEO of the teer emergency medical technician, and followed “The corporate life was just not for me,” Weiner Seton hospital. Weiner on calls for cardiac emergencies. said. “People will have slightly brighter light “I fell in love with health care,” she said, and bulbs. Is that what I want to do with my life?” set the lower income as a primary care doctor. earned degrees in nursing and health adminis- Weiner’s real passion was to be a country doc- There were other tradeoffs that reflect the dif- tration. “Resources were very slim” when she tor. So he went to medical school, got a degree in ficulty of recruiting doctors to rural areas. His wife started at the hospital in 1988, she said. “Thirty- 1979 and looked for jobs near San Antonio, where gave up her career — a sacrifice not many dual- three years later, we are dealing with some of the his wife, Phyllis, was starting graduate school in career couples would accept. It was hard to find a same issues,” along with new complications such psychology. He saw an ad for a position in Luling, house that fit his family’s needs, although Weiner as the federal Affordable Care Act and low Med- came to town for the interview and got the posi- said they eventually moved into “a McMansion icaid reimbursements. tion at then city-owned Edgar B. Davis Hospital. that we got very inexpensively.” The Weiners sent The hospital is the health care safety net for a Weiner had a family practice, with his office on three of their children to private schools to get the county that covers 523 square miles. It provides the hospital grounds, and worked part-time in the quality of education they wanted. emergency room. The better-paying ER work off- Weiner loved the close bond he formed with pa- Continued on next page bluebonnet.coop bluebonnet.coop AugustOctober 2015 2015 BLUEBONNET BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE COOPERATIVE Texas Texas Co-op Co-op Power Power 20A 21

BLUEBONNET MAG OCT 2015.indd 19 9/8/15 5:57 PM How the health insurance law has affected rural counties

The federal A ordable Care Act resulted in County Uninsured Uninsured a signiﬁ cant drop in the number of Texans 2013 2014 without health insurance, including in rural areas. For example, the percentage Austin 19% 14% of residents with health insurance in Bastrop 21% 14% Gonzales County grew by 11 percentage Burleson 22% 15% points from 2013 to 2014. Caldwell 26% 18% However, some plans may have high co- Colorado 24% 16% pays or deductibles, and do not fully cover Fayette 19% 13% patients’ health care needs. Gonzales 29% 18% The chart is based on data from Enroll Guadalupe 17% 12% America, a Washington, D.C.-based Hays 18% 13% coalition of health care providers, faith Lee 19% 14% organizations and small businesses that works to increase the number of people Milam 24% 16% receiving health care through the federal Travis 19% 13% law. Washington 19% 14% The ﬁ gures — the most current available Williamson 13% 10% — are estimates based on previous State of Texas 22% 17% enrollment data and analysis from surveys. United States 16% 11%

Continued from previous page There’s a sliding-scale fee, with the maximum to provide more sophisticated — and profi table may take too long by ambulance. In those cases, charge of $20 for patients with no insurance. — emergency services. Most rural hospitals are an air ambulance may be the only option. $12 million in charity care a year in Caldwell The hospital also provides a free diabetes edu- Level IV trauma centers, the second lowest rating In La Grange, St. Mark’s has a trauma services County. Many of the hospital’s patients earn too cation program for adult patients. But some unin- in a system that refl ects the level of care the facil- relationship with St. David’s HealthCare. Kernell much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to sured patients with diabetes skip medications or ity can provide. In acute cases, such as a massive used the example of a patient with congestive afford private insurance, Haynes said, adding that use a lower dose to make their prescriptions last heart attack or stroke, Level IV hospitals provide heart failure who urgently needs advanced treat- most work for small businesses or in service jobs longer, Haynes said. Then they show up in her basic life-support services but must transfer pa- ment. “We can airlift that patient” to the appropri- that don’t include health coverage. The hospital emergency room “really sick.” tients to a larger facility that can provide advanced ate St. David’s facility in Austin, he said. offered to help people fi nd coverage under the Af- procedures. Travis County’s StarFlight EMS service can fordable Care Act, but fewer than 10 of the 100 Flying trauma patients In Central Texas, the only Level I trauma cen- respond to calls in 11 Bluebonnet Cooperative- people who used the help bought coverage. For ters — the highest rating — are University Medi- area counties. Private companies such as Air Evac the rest, it was cheaper to pay the law’s fi ne for go- to city hospitals cal Center Brackenridge and Dell Children’s and PHI Air Medical also provide service in the ing without coverage, which varies but is at least Medical Center in Austin. The 60-bed Scott & region. PHI provides ambulance services in situa- $95 for an individual per year. Rural hospitals face additional hurdles when it White Hospital in Brenham, which has a Level III tions such as when someone suffers a major heart The 25-bed hospital operates the only mam- comes to emergency care. ERs must be open 24/7, rating, serves patients from Bluebonnet’s service attack or stroke, when it’s crucial to get the patient mography center in the county and sends its Care- but a rural hospital may get two emergency pa- area, including Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Lee, to a hospital quickly. a-Van mobile health unit to schools, churches and tients one day, none the next and 10 the day after Fayette and Washington counties. Phil Ward, who manages the PHI base in Cedar community centers fi ve days a week to provide that, said McBeath, of the hospital association. But in rural emergencies, getting to a hospital Creek southeast of Austin, said emergency room basic childhood care, such as immunizations, “How do you staff for that?” he asked, adding that may be 30 miles away is challenging. doctors, paramedics or other fi rst responders decide medicines and lab tests, and well-child checkups. that many rural hospitals lose money on emergen- In many areas, EMS services rely on volunteers whether it’s necessary to airlift a patient. Remote “There are a lot more kids than two pediatri- cy room operations. and may lack advanced life support equipment. areas or rush-hour traffi c waste valuable minutes. cians can see,” Haynes said. In addition, rural hospitals don’t have capacity Getting to patients and taking them to a hospital “If a patient walks into the ER with a severe heart

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BLUEBONNET MAG OCT 2015.indd 20 9/8/15 5:57 PM to provide more sophisticated — and profitable may take too long by ambulance. In those cases, attack, they call us to (quickly transport) them di- Private companies such as PHI Air Medical — emergency services. Most rural hospitals are an air ambulance may be the only option. rectly” to a larger Austin hospital where doctors can transport those in immediate need to urban Level IV trauma centers, the second lowest rating In La Grange, St. Mark’s has a trauma services perform needed emergency procedures. areas with top-level trauma centers. Above in a system that reflects the level of care the facil- relationship with St. David’s HealthCare. Kernell Each helicopter crew includes a pilot, a flight from left, flight paramedic Phil Ward, flight ity can provide. In acute cases, such as a massive used the example of a patient with congestive paramedic and a flight nurse as well as advanced nurse Michael Riffle and the pilot, Capt. Mark heart attack or stroke, Level IV hospitals provide heart failure who urgently needs advanced treat- life-support equipment. The company primarily Mueller, near their yellow helicopter. The com- basic life-support services but must transfer pa- ment. “We can airlift that patient” to the appropri- serves Bastrop and surrounding counties, but also pany serves Bastrop and surrounding coun- tients to a larger facility that can provide advanced ate St. David’s facility in Austin, he said. responds to calls along the Interstate 10 corridor, ties, including along Interstate 10. procedures. Travis County’s StarFlight EMS service can Ward said. In Central Texas, the only Level I trauma cen- respond to calls in 11 Bluebonnet Cooperative- ters — the highest rating — are University Medi- area counties. Private companies such as Air Evac ness by urban legislators, for whom rural health cal Center Brackenridge and Dell Children’s and PHI Air Medical also provide service in the Rural care needs care is a low-priority issue, is a must. Medical Center in Austin. The 60-bed Scott & region. PHI provides ambulance services in situa- attention, awareness “Urban elected officials feel this is not really an White Hospital in Brenham, which has a Level III tions such as when someone suffers a major heart issue for their constituents,” McBeath said. “We rating, serves patients from Bluebonnet’s service attack or stroke, when it’s crucial to get the patient There is no easy fix for the rural health care try to remind them that the food and fuel and fiber area, including Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Lee, to a hospital quickly. crisis, said McBeath, from the rural hospital or- your constituents depend on all come from rural Fayette and Washington counties. Phil Ward, who manages the PHI base in Cedar ganization. Restoring Medicare and Medicaid re- Texas. Urban areas depend on rural areas to sur- But in rural emergencies, getting to a hospital Creek southeast of Austin, said emergency room imbursement levels would help stabilize hospitals vive.” n that may be 30 miles away is challenging. doctors, paramedics or other first responders decide financially. Expanding the number of physician In many areas, EMS services rely on volunteers whether it’s necessary to airlift a patient. Remote residency slots in rural areas also would help, be- This is the second in an occasional series about and may lack advanced life support equipment. areas or rush-hour traffic waste valuable minutes. cause doctors tend to establish their practices close projected growth and its challenges and opportu- Getting to patients and taking them to a hospital “If a patient walks into the ER with a severe heart to where they do their residencies. Greater aware- nities in Bluebonnet’s region. bluebonnet.coop bluebonnet.coop October 2015 BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE Texas Co-op Power 23

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BLUEBONNET MAG OCT 2015.indd 22 9/8/15 5:57 PM MEMBER SERVICES pin, which you’ll probably see all around the area during October. Bluebonnet members may pick up a free pink ribbon pin in October at any one of our member & service centers in Bastrop, Brenham, Giddings, Lockhart and Manor. Q My motto: “Early detection is the best protec- A tion for women and men.” Breast cancer doesn’t care whether you are female or male. Find I noticed that Bluebonnet’s member resources about breast cancer at nationalbreast- Q:service buildings had pink lights last cancer.org, breastcancer.org and komen.org. October and that you do other things for Breast such as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which In keeping with the pink theme, members Cancer Awareness Month. It’s a cause that is we are doing again this year. In addition to illumi- who have an online account at bluebonnet.coop dear to my heart. Will you be supporting it again nating our fi ve member service centers with pink or on our mobile app for smartphones as of Oct. this year? lights, our linemen are wearing pink hard hats, 31 will be entered in a drawing for a chance to the Bluebonnet service trucks are displaying pink win a pink YETI cooler. For more information, I’m glad you asked. As a breast cancer ribbon magnets and all Bluebonnet employees go to our homepage at bluebonnet.coop. A:survivor, October is a special month for were given a pink T-shirt and a pink metal ribbon me, too. The community is very important — Carmen Uballe, to Bluebonnet and is, in fact, one member service of our six Foundation Values representative — Safety, Courage, Respect, Reliability, Community and Love — that shape our business decisions. We give back to our neighbors through community service projects and by supporting worthy causes

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Here’s a sweet recipe from cookbook author Rosie Daykin. Inspired by the bars she sells at her Vancouver bakery, Rosie’s recipe uses a British candy called Smarties, similar to American M&M’s. You can use walnuts instead of candy for a healthier version, or use Halloween-colored M&M’s for a spooky treat. ANNA GINSBERG, FOOD EDITOR

Smartie Pants Bars

1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks) 3 cups bittersweet chocolate chips 6 large eggs 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup Smarties or M&M’s, or 2 cups walnut halves

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by- 13-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper, overlapping at two opposite edges to form “handles.” 2. In a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the butter and chocolate chips, whisking to combine. 3. Transfer mixture to a large bowl and whisk together with eggs, sugar and vanilla. Add the flour and salt, and whisk to combine. 4. Pour mixture into the pan and sprinkle evenly with Smarties, M&M’s or walnuts. 5. Bake 25–30 minutes or until the brownie has puffed up and cracked. This is a very fudgy brownie; it will ultimately fall after being removed from the oven, creating a dense bar. 6. Remove from oven and allow the slab to cool completely. Run a small knife along the two edges of the pan without the parchment handles. Grasping the handles, carefully remove the slab from the pan, transfer to cutting board, and cut into approximately 2-by-2-inch bars.

Servings: 24. Serving size: 1 brownie. Per serving: 341 calories, 4.43 g protein, 19.33 g fat, 33.95 g carbohydrates, 3.27 g dietary fiber, 121 mg sodium, 23.62 g sugars, 67 mg cholesterol

Butter Baked Goods by Rosie Daykin (Knopf, 2015),

JANIS NICOLAY | KNOPF NICOLAY JANIS excerpted with permission

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TexasCoopPower.com October 2015 Texas Co-op Power 35 Around Texas Get Going > This is just a sampling of the events and festivals around

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Museum of the Southwest welcomes visitors to estate of 1930s oil tycoon Fred Turner Jr.

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The Texas oil boom of the 1950s transformed Midland into a bustling community. More than 250 oil companies established offices in the city, which grew from 10,000 in 1940 to more than 62,000 by 1960. That growth raised the skyline and made it visible for miles. But it wasn’t the first time Midland and its architecture benefited from an oil boom. Less than a mile from the city center, the Museum of the Southwest occu- pies the house and grounds of one of the most important landmarks in the region. The Fred and Juliette Turner House, now part of the museum’s 5-acre compound Jim Wightman and his mother, Catherine Potts, admire Isidore- that includes a fine art collection, a plan- Jules Bonheur’s bronze bull. etarium and a children’s museum, was constructed in 1936, courtesy of riches made after the oil boom of the 1920s. tures. Rest in the shadow of Joe Barrington’s Blakemore Planetarium where the Spitz The house was built by Fred Turner Jr., 9-foot-tall welded steer (known as Rusty). SciDome uses video technology to project a native of Coleman County who made his Or try wrapping your arms around Panzon a changing array of eye-dazzling programs fortune acquiring unsurveyed lands that (“chubby” in Spanish), artist Dan Oster- overhead, including Dawn of the Space belonged to the state’s public free school miller’s child-friendly interpretation of a Age. Adjacent to the dome theater, ex- fund. The land was sitting on top of one fat, happy bear. Then give the kids a chance plore cosmic phenomena such as the of the richest oil reserves in the world. In to ride Galapagos Tortoise, a bronze cast- plasma globe—or, as inventor Nikola Tesla a move that befit his newly acquired status ing of the island creature. called it, the “inert gas discharge tube.” as oil baron, Turner hired well-known Dal- Inside, the museum highlights its col- Star parties take place once a month and las architect Anton F. Korn Jr. to design lection of more than 40,000 works of art are sponsored by the West Texas Astron- and build his dream home on 12 contigu- and archeological items, with exhibits omers, who set up viewing telescopes on ous lots. Korn’s design, an eclectic resi- located in the first floor of the Turner the planetarium grounds. dence of brick masonry, draws from his House and in an addition designed by the Plan on dinner at the Wall Street Bar expertise in blending elements of the firm Ford, Powell & Carson. In the home’s & Grill, a downtown Midland classic that Colonial, Tudor and Mediterranean styles original formal sunroom, you’ll find the offers comfortable, turn-of-the-century popular during the period. bronze bull sculpted by Isidore-Jules décor, including a mahogany bar and the Turner and his wife occupied the home Bonheur mounted above the Moroccan original pressed-tin ceiling throughout the until their deaths in the early 1960s. The green tile floor. 100-year-old building. Try a “Gold Brick,” family trust then sold the home to Mid- The collection includes art by John the grill’s signature ice cream dessert. It’s land County, which conveyed a lease to James Audubon and paintings by mem- no substitute for a wildcatter lifestyle, but the Museum of the Southwest. Although bers of the Taos Society of Artists. In addi- once you finish off the chocolate goodness, modified over the years with additions to tion to the permanent collection, the you’ll feel like a million bucks. accommodate the museum’s growing col- museum hosts changing exhibitions of E. Dan Klepper is a photographer, author and lection, the original architecture remains guest artists year-round. Next door, the artist who lives in Marathon. intact, and the home is now listed on the Durham Children’s Museum features National Register of Historic Places. interactive displays designed to create a WEB EXTRAS at TexasCoopPower.com Today, you’ll find much of the museum’s learning experience. . You'll find more sights from the museum

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