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| YOU ARE INVITED in most of our languages, but we have some Google doesn't even have yet |
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Some ancestors getting ready to come
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| Karankawan will lead Parade of Ancestors Port Lavaca, Texas March 17, 2012 (click image) |
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| Camels brought to Texas in 1855 by Juan Gonzales and Jose Mendez, ancestor of Joe Pena (click image) |
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| Bettina von Arnim, poet, collected fairy tales with Grimm brothers and earliest data on working conditions of Silesian weavers. Free Thinkers named their Texas settlement Bettina (click image) |
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| Sgt. Wm. H. Barnes, U.S.C.T. Medal of Honor recipient 1866, portrayed by Michael Clay (click image) |
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Birdwatchers know Calhoun County
claims the greatest diversity of birds
anywhere.
Now a sociologist tells us we also
have the greatest diversity of
humans: more languages, ancestries,
and occupations in a smaller population
(county:21,381; town:11,694) than
most anywhere.
Since we have real industrial plants,
real farms, real ranches, real oyster-
men, real shrimpers,and really big
ships in and out, we are, according
to same sociologist, the least --
if not the last small coastal town
on the whole Atlantic seaboard that
isn't -- dependent on tourists and
second home owners, and hence
we are the most "authentic" small
coastal town on the Atlantic seaboard.
A trait which, contradictory as it may
seem, attracts tourists and second
home owners avoiding tourists and
second home owners. If you have
found your way to our site, created
by an authentic 73 year old returning
Texan, we have decided to invite you,
beginning this year and every third
Saturday in March hereafter, to join our
All Calhoun County's Cultures and Cuisines
Parade of Ancestors on Main Street
in Port Lavaca, Texas.
March 17 from 11 AM to 4 PM.
Please come as your favorite ancestor,
or favorite adopted ancestor or a
culture or historic character you just like.
This year's 3rd Saturday in March Parade
of Ancestors' falls on St. Patrick's Day,
but don't come as Lady Gregory and
William Butler Yeats. Carolyn Yeats Kuban
and her husband Bo are coming as them,
even 'tho he's mostly Czech,. But we can
use more young Karankawans. They wore
only tatoos. 
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| Planning Committee for March 17 (click image) |
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Pictured above are some of the Planning Committee for the All Calhoun Cultures and Cuisines Parade of Ancestors at the February 27, 2012 meeting. Seated, L to R: Mayor Jack Whitlow, Sister Mary Josephine, Mrs. Betty Hicks, Mrs Sabrina Harris, Mr. Robert Ojeda, Mrs. Tina Wu, Mr. Sam Sensabaugh, Mrs. Rose Pena, Mrs. Yung Wei Sensabaugh, Mrs. Earlene Hamilton, Mrs. Myrtle Montier, Mrs. Frances Hartzog, and Rev. Howdy Hartzog, former County Judge. Standing L to R are Mr. Joe Mireles, City Councilman Jim Ward, Mr. Joe Pena, retired Chief of Police, Lisa Lai, Carla Jackson, Michael Clay, and Fabian Balboa. See who we are coming as.
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