Texas Co-Op Power • May 2021
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Folk music The hero oF reader phoTos: in the Field cinco de mAyo hiStoric texAS For electric cooperAtive memberS m Ay 2 0 2 1 Spinning Yarns Fiber of friendship for San Angelo cooperative comes straight off the hoof contents May 2021 04 currents The latest buzz 06 tcp talk Readers respond 18 co-op news Information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative 29 Footnotes in texas history The Hero of Cinco de Mayo By W.F. Strong 30 tcp Kitchen Potluck Dishes By Megan Myers 34 hit the road Used Cars 08 By Chet Garner 37 Focus on texas 12 Photo Contest: Serendipity Listening Historic Texas Spinners to Texas Members of a San Angelo How folklorists saved 38 observations cooperative spin wool from the soundtrack of the Universal Appeal their own flock. Lone Star State. By E. Dan Klepper By Brenda Kissko By Gene Fowler Photos by Kristin Tyler On tHe COver Colorful skeins of yarn created by the Serendipity Spinners. AbOve Peggy tharp, ruth Jordan and Sandy Pederson of the spinning club. Photos by Kristin Tyler texASCOOPPOwer.COM MAy 2021 TEXAS COOP POWER 3 Currents A Preponderance of Orthographers have proven masterful at spelling words that seemingly young texAnS come from a jostled Scrabble board. They have pretty much owned the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. Three of the eight co-champions in 2019 came from Texas. Sohum Sukhatankar of Dallas dazzled with his winning word, pendeloque. FiniSh thiS Abhijay Kodali of Flower Mound spelled palama. And Rohan Raja of Dallas aced odylic. Sentence They followed in the footsteps of 2018 champion Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, who hoisted the trophy after spelling koinonia. THIS MeMoRIAL Nihar Janga of Austin shared the title in 2016 after spelling Gesellschaft. DAy, I HonoR ... The COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 bee. The tell us how you would finish 2021 finals are scheduled for July 8. that sentence. email your short responses to letters@texas May 5 CoopPower.com or comment on our Facebook post. Include your co-op and town. below are some nAtionAl of the responses to our March AStronAut prompt: the song that got me through a year of pandemic is … andAy etymology dictionary cites If We Make It Through December 1880 as the earliest use of the by Merle Haggard. word “astronaut.” That’s when InOCenCIA MArtInez MAgIC vALLey eC english writer percy Greg coined M e r C e d e S it for a fictional spaceship. Texas Sun by Khruangbin and Leon bridges. MeLAnIe burrIS n u e C e S e C P O r t L A n d Still Not Dead by willie nelson. F d H e r M A n HAMILtOn COunty eC b I g vA L L e y We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger. SAnJAy SHAH C O S e r v C A r r O L Lt O n This Little Light of Mine. Peggy HOwArd vICtOrIA eC v I C t O r I A Don’t Let Me Down by the beatles. Jerry CHAndLer PedernALeS eC CAnyOn LAKe to see more responses, read Currents online. AStrOnAut: deLPIxeL | SHutterStOCK.COM. LIbrAry: COurteSy LbJ PreSIdentIAL LIbrAry. CHeeSe: OvydybOretS | dreAMStIMe.COM. dAnCe HALL: dAve SHAFer 4 TEXAS COOP POWER MAy 2021 texASCOOPPOwer.COM “Motherhood is the greatest Contests and More on texAScooppower.com thing and the $500 recipe conteSt Cheese hardest thing.” FocuS on texAS photoS rust and decay —ricki lake recommended reAding Double Exposure (July 2018) revisits a couple’s pose at Cadillac ranch. lbJ Archives at 50 the LbJ Presidential Library at the university of texas at Austin turns 50 on May 22. It was the first presidential library to be located on a college campus and the first anywhere in texas. the First Five presidential libraries Opened June 30, 1941 Franklin d. roosevelt Hyde Park, new york July 6, 1957 harry S. truman Independence, Missouri May 1, 1962 dwight d. eisenhower Abilene, Kansas August 10, 1962 herbert hoover twin SiSterS west branch, Iowa dAnce hAll May 22, 1971 neAr blAnco lyndon b. Johnson Austin, texas Care To Dance? donated $262,520 to assist texAS dAnce hAll preServAtion 32 historic dance halls with expenses in 2020. Dance halls across the state were shut down for most of 2020, unable to hold dances, weddings, festivals and fundraisers be- cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1,000 dance halls, built mostly by European immi- grants, once dotted parts of Texas. Today, fewer than 400 remain. Read Hail the Halls from February 2019 to learn more. lbJ preSidentiAl librAry texASCOOPPOwer.COM MAy 2021 TEXAS COOP POWER 5 TCP Talk Flower power “Your March cover started my day with a happy smile. You all knocked it out of the ballpark with photos of Texas flowers in breathtaking colors.” audneTTe cody larGenT F ay e T T e e c e m o r y rOb greebOn Family roots A Flyer’s Fate bread and butter Some of the more interesting pass-along Col. Carl Crane, my grand- As a youngster in Boerne in plants [Putting Down Roots, February Salsa was great father, and William Ocker the 1950s, one of my treats 2021] were introduced by Lorenzo de during the snow- were pioneers in instrumen- was simple well-buttered Zavala when he was a minister to France pocalypse [Tacos, tation flying [Flying Blind, bread, and the butter was when Texas was a republic. Roses were March 2021]. Spicy January 2021]. Had Crane from either Falfurrias or the food and soups for a gift from France and planted by Adina not pursued this solution, Comfort Creamery, depend- cold days and nights de Zavala, his granddaughter, in their always seem to go I might not be here. ing on whether my parents Lynchburg homestead, eventually good together. The story goes that he was shopped in San Antonio or shared and spread into surrounding dAvId nOrtOn flying a congressman’s son at our local Boerne grocery communities. These roses are still found vIA FACebOOK in bad weather in Ohio when [A Name That Sticks, Febru- in some of our older cemeteries. he became disoriented and ary 2021]. Back then the but- almost crashed. Neon lights ter was better than the bread. Mike Shoup of a hotel that he saw at the bluebonnet eC last minute allowed Crane to dell Hood Independence get his bearings and correct Pedernales eC his plane’s direction, saving wimberley their lives. Lisa Mittel write to uS Southwest texas eC [email protected] San Antonio editor, texas Co-op Power 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor Austin, tx 78701 please include your electric co-op and town. Letters may be edited for clarity and length. CHIArA verCeSI texas Co-op Power texAS electric cooperAtiveS boArd oF directorS texas co-op power volume 77, number 11 (uSPS 540-560). Texas Co-op Power is published chair robert Loth III, Fredericksburg • vice chair gary raybon, el Campo monthly by texas electric Cooperatives (teC). Periodical postage paid at Austin, tx, and at additional Secretary-treasurer Kelly Lankford, San Angelo • board members greg Henley, tahoka offices. teC is the statewide association representing 75 electric cooperatives.Texas Co-op Power’s website is texasCoopPower.com. 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The The obverse of the high-quality mint strike features Texas’ iconic lone star in the foreground. The smooth engraving of the star is framed by a textured topographical outline of the state of Texas.