The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, July 1978 - April, 1979 Page: 426
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
We enjoyed that only ten years or so ago with San Antonio's HemisFair,
and we still glory in the nation's largest, grandest, gaudiest state fair.
We may need, a few more museums and statues, because many Texans
take special pride in such tangible monuments. But what we really
need is a renaissance, a new birth, a coming to life again of Texas
studies. The sesquicentennial of the Texas Revolution approaches. For
the purposes of planning and coordinating a suitable remembrance,
1986 is close at hand. Soon, very soon, a sesquicentennial commission
must be about the work. The Texas which stimulated such intense
pride in past generations is in need of care. Its natural places, its differ-
ences, its spirit, need revisiting. Symposia, public discussion, preserva-
tion, restudy-these should become the goals of a new remembrance
of an old theme: Texas.
If the appropriate officials, especially the governor and the legislature,
catch the remembrance spirit soon enough, Texans will be able to take
pride in a sesquicentennial that is thrice golden.
An early cotton gin. Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Courtesy Library,
University of Texas at Austin.426
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