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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
time, or a work whose subject matter substantially concerns Texas. Each
entry should include the entrant's address and phone number. Winners
and finalists will be notified during March 2000. Banquet announce-
ments and newspaper articles cover the winners; no other notifications
will be sent. For more information, contact Don Graham by e-mail at
dgbb@mail.utexas.edu or visit the TIL website (http://www.English.
swt.edu/css/TIL/index).
The John Nance Garner House and Museum dedication ceremony was
held on November 20, 1999. The museum is dedicated to documenting
the remarkable life and career of Texas native son John Nance "Cactus
Jack" Garner (1869-1967), the most powerful vice-president in U.S. histo-
ry and the second most powerful politician in the United States during
the Great Depression. Speaker of the House of Representatives during the
last two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency (1931-1933) and vice presi-
dent during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first two terms (1933-1941), Garner
was a dominant national political figure who played a critical role in the
passage of most of the federal legislation aimed at alleviating or ending
the most severe economic crisis in U.S. history.
Garner and his wife, Ettie, lived in the two-story brick home on 333
North Park Street in Uvalde until her death in 1948. In 1952, Garner
donated the house to the City of Uvalde as a memorial to his late wife.
Since 1973 it has been the Garner Museum's mission to preserve and
exhibit photographs, cartoons, documents, paintings, sculpture, and
artifacts documenting Garner's life and career and to educate the public
about one of the most important and colorful political figures in Texas
and American history. On November 20, 1999, the City of Uvalde trans-
ferred ownership of the Garner House and Museum to the University of
Texas at Austin to become a division of the University's Center for
American History.
The Center for American History's Winedale Division, located near
Round Top, Texas, will host its Winedale Spring Festival and Texas
Crafts Exhibition on March 18-19, 2000. The festival will feature both
contemporary and traditional crafts, as well as music, ethnic food
demonstrations, and an all-day Texas barbecue. The juried show of con-
temporary crafts showcases the work of more than forty Texas artists in
glass, jewelry, ceramic, fiber, metal, wood, and mixed media, and tradi-
tional craft demonstrations will include basket making, broom making,
corn shuckery, knotting, lace making, tinsmithing, soap making, caning,
spinning and weaving, quilting, rug hooking, blacksmithing, and goose
plucking. Music performances on two stages will be presented through-
out both days of the festival. For additional information, please tele-
phone Winedale at 409/278-3530.January
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