Photograph of Miss Texas USA cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing loose striped pants, a black tank top, and a sash denoting her title. An older man wearing a shirt and tie is standing to the left of her.
Photograph of two Philippine dancers performing the Maglalatik dance onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men are shirtless, wearing rolled up pants and coconut halves secured to their shoulders, thighs and hips. One man is crouched down while the other is leapfrogging over him.
Photograph of two Philippine dancers performing the Maglalatik dance onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men are shirtless, wearing rolled up pants and coconut halves secured to their shoulders, thighs and hips.
Photograph of a Philippine Dance Ensemble performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The men are wearing rolled up pants and loose shirts. Two women are wearing long white dresses with big sleeves while two other women are wearing white blouses and striped skirts. One man is kneeling down, arranging plates on the stage. Another man is stepping on the plates and holding a glass in each hand.
Photograph of a Philippine Dance Ensemble performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man wearing rolled up pants is stepping on plates while balancing a glass cup on his head. A female dancer is to the left, wearing a long white dress with big, puffy sleeves. Two other male dancers are visible.
Photograph of a young Irish dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a short skirt, and a cropped jacket with lace trim, she is dancing with her hands at her side. She has curly blond hair. Other dancers are visible onstage behind her.
Photograph of two young girls performing an Irish dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing short skirts, cropped jackets, and laced up dance shoes, they are dancing side by side. The girl on the left is holding the hand of the girl on the right, leading her around to the front.
Photograph of two women performing an Irish dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing knee-length skirts, cropped jackets with lace trim, and dark pantyhose, they are dancing side by side with their hands joined and raised between them.
Photograph of Bruce Montague demonstrating trick roping at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a striped shirt, jeans, and boots, he is trick roping with two lassos: one around his right ankle and a larger one around his hips.
Photograph of Bruce Montague lassoing a small boy at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed as a cowboy the boy is standing on a circular platform. His arms, chest and legs are constrained, each with a different loop of the rope. In the right foreground, Montague is leaning forward to toss another lasso around the boy.
Photograph of a man cooking bratwurst in the Swiss booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a traditional Swiss cap and shirt, he is using tongs to rotate the bratwursts on a flat top grill. Festival visitors are visible outside the booth.
Photograph of a man serving food in the Perini Ranch Chuck Wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt, he is serving a female festival visitor with a smile on his face. Behind him, a female visitor is standing next to a beer tap.
Photograph of Jack F. "Spot" Baird, Professor of Possumology at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a safari hat, a patterned shirt, and overalls, he is holding up a tattered umbrella. An antique camera is hanging around his neck. In place of a flash, a candle is attached to the top of it.
Photograph of Steve Hartz, from Old Time String Shop, playing violin with a member of Lone Star Fiddlers outside of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing overalls, Hartz is on the left while Kirk Hunter, wearing a poet shirt and a straw hat, is on the right. They are sitting in an area surrounded by tables of stringed instruments containing guitars, banjos, and mandolins.
Photograph of the Lone Star Fiddlers playing an impromptu session on the porch of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all wearing cowboy hats and light-colored shirts. In the foreground is a guitarist and an acoustic bassist. In the background, a violinist and another guitarist is visible.
Photograph of Bruce Montague demonstrating trick roping at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Curled up into a ball, he is laying on his back on a circular platform while he lassos around himself.
Photograph of the Lone Star Fiddlers playing an impromptu session on the porch of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all wearing cowboy hats and light-colored shirts. From the left is an acoustic bassist, a violinist, and a guitarist.
Photograph of Paul Patterson, Allen Damron, Guich Koock, and Ace Reid telling stories onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Patterson is on the left sitting in a tall wooden chair, while Damron and Koock are in the center sitting on a square hay bale. Damron is playing a guitar while Koock holds a microphone up to his face. Reid is on the right, sitting in a rocking chair. Everyone except Damron is wearing a cowboy hat and boots. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.
Photograph of Allen Damron and Guich Koock on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are sitting on a square hay bale, Damron on the left and Koock on the right. Damron is playing guitar while Koock holds a microphone to his mouth.
Photograph of several festival visitors berm sliding at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Scattered about on a steep hill, they are using panels of cardboard to slide down. In front of the hill is a broad walkway where several visitors are milling about.
Photograph of a man cooking barbecue in the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a straw hat and an apron, he is tending to the meat on the grill. In the foreground, large cuts of cooked meat are on cooling on a rack.
Photograph of the Wence Shimek Polka Band, from Lavaca County, performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Starting from the left there is a clarinet player named Louis (denoted on his music stand), a guitarist, Wence singing at center stage, a drummer in the background, and another guitarist on the right. All members are male except for the guitarist on the right. The back of the music stand in front of her reads, "Helen." A sign on the right reads, "Wence Shimek and the All Star Sounds."
Photograph of a couple dancing to the music of Wence Shimek Polka Band, from Lavaca County, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Both of them are wearing plaid shirts and dark pants, and the man is wearing a cowboy hat. The band is partially visible onstage in the background.
Photograph of Nancy Lou Webster, from Elgin, making treenware at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing black frame glasses, she is sitting at a work surface with a piece of wood held in a vise. Using a hammer and chisel, she is shaping the piece of wood.
Photograph of Debbie Morelock, broom maker from Brownwood, carving a broomstick at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a mob cap and a pioneer dress, she is stripping bark off of the thin stick.
Photograph of Kevin Fitzpatrick demonstrating trick roping at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a black cowboy hat, jeans, and boots, he is trick roping while standing on a circular platform. In the left foreground, a blonde girl is watching. In the background, some people are watching from a covered porch.
Photograph of Marty Tuttle giving honey samples in the beekeeper's booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is squeezing a small amount of honey from a plastic container onto a plastic spoon. Several jars of honey are on the table in front of her. Tuttle has short, dark, curly hair, and is wearing a button up shirt with ric rac on the collar.
Photograph of Ace Reid, cartoonist and humorist from Kerrville, on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a plaid shirt, he is speaking into a microphone which he is holding.
Photograph of Ace Reid, cartoonist and humorist from Kerrville, on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a plaid shirt, he is speaking into a microphone which he is holding. Behind him a rocking chair and a small hay bale is visible.
Photograph of Ace Reid and Paul Patterson on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Patterson is standing on the right and speaking into a microphone while Reid is sitting on the left. They are both wearing cowboy hats. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.
Photograph of Bill Corkery telling a story on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is sitting on a hay bale, wearing a cowboy hat and speaking into a microphone. In the left foreground, two young audience members are sitting on the edge of the stage. The backdrop of the stage is painted to look like a wooden house front.
Photograph of a female drummer for the Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cap that says, "Indian Power," she is sitting in a chair and playing a Native American drum with furry mallets.
Photograph of the Czech Folk Dancers of West at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a woman in traditional Czech clothing are dancing together. The man is raising his arm to twirl the woman around. She is wearing a dress covered with sheer, light-colored fabric. Her blouse has large, puffy sleeves and she is wearing a crown of flowers. The man is wearing an ornately embroidered vest over a light-colored tunic that has big, loose sleeves. A crowd of spectators is visible in the background.
Photograph of Cindy Findley, from Edwards County, telling a story onstage at the opening ceremonies of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and chaps, she is standing in front of a tall wooden chair. Behind her on the right is emcee, Rosemary Davis. She is wearing a long skirt and a wide-brimmed sun hat.
Photograph of Cindy Findley telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a patterned shirt, and leather chaps, she is standing at the center of a small stage in front of a tall chair, a square hay bale, and a painted backdrop of a house front. Sitting in a rocking chair on the right side of the stage is emcee, Rosemary Davis, wearing a long white dress and a wide-brimmed sun hat.
Photograph of young Irish dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The three girls are wearing short skirts, long-sleeved shirts, and dark vests. They are dancing with their hands at their side and their right legs pointed out in front of them.
Photograph of a man competing in the State Tobacco Spitting Contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a baseball cap and aviator sunglasses, he is placing a finger on each side of his mouth and forcefully spitting to achieve the highest distance possible.
Photograph of a man competing in the State Tobacco Spitting Contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a paper "Red Man" bib, he is forcefully spitting to achieve the highest distance possible.
Photograph of living history reenactors dressed as Civil War era soldiers sitting around a table in Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. One man on the far side of the table is not in costume. The door to the room, on the left, is open to the outside.
Photograph of a man competing in the State Tobacco Spitting Contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cap and a button up shirt, he is forcefully spitting to achieve the highest distance possible.
Photograph of a man clearing spit from the competition area at the State Tobacco Spitting Contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing shorts and a t-shirt, the blond man is wiping the tarp with a sponge mop. Several spectators are standing beside the competition area.
Photograph of David Howell, of Brazoria Militia, giving gunsmith lessons at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is crouched over a vice that is holding a gun stock, which he is carving.
Photograph of Jodie Aves, from Fredericksburg, demonstrating a spinning wheel at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an apron with an image of a spinning wheel, she is sitting next to two young boys, showing them the raw fiber that will be spun into yarn.
Photograph of a man serving food in the Perini Ranch Chuck Wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a button up shirt, he is holding a small styrofoam bowl of food and is smiling at the camera. Plastic cups are stacked up on the counter in front of him.
Photograph of a band practicing under a tree at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the right, a woman wearing a long calico skirt and a sun hat is playing a guitar. To the left is a man playing washtub bass, another guitarist, and a fiddler wearing a poet shirt. Instrument cases are open on the ground next to the tree trunk on the left.
Photograph of a boy playing with a handmade wooden toy at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is pulling on two strings, to which is attached a wooden pulley that moves up and down as he moves the strings.
Photograph of a cowboy kissing a woman as part of the free cowboy kisses at Perini Ranch Chuck Wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Standing on the left, he is wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt as he embraces the woman. She has shoulder length hair and is wearing a sleeveless shirt. Above them a sign reads, "Cowboy Kisses, 0 Coupons."
Photograph of a man and a boy making cornmeal hoe cakes in the Cisco Civic League booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two are each holding a hoe over a pile of hot coals to cook small cakes on the flat metal part of the tool. The man is on the right wearing overalls, a straw hat, and glasses. The boy is to the left of the coal pile.
Photograph of Mike Mosel demonstrating his handmade toys, from The Village Woodsmith in San Marcos, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the right, a girl is holding a wooden figure with loose, moveable legs. Mosel, on the left, is bouncing a wooden paddle below the figure's feet, making its legs "dance."
Photograph of Rita Lawson in the Welsh food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a traditional Welsh costume and a hat with a tall crown, she is serving welsh cookies.
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