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| Written by Aric Brown | |
| Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | |
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THE AMARILLO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2010 Audrey Cannady Massingill, Editor MEETING Monday, March 1, 2010 Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. Amarillo Public Library, Downtown Meeting Room on the Second Floor Visitors are always welcome. OUR PROGRAM WILL BE THE DUST BOWL by Dr. Clay Robinson MEETING Monday, March 1, 2010 Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. Amarillo Public Library, Downtown Meeting Room on the Second Floor Visitors are always welcome. OUR PROGRAM WILL BE THE DUST BOWL by Dr. Clay Robinson Dr. Robinson, also known as Dr. Dirt, hosts “Dr. Dirt: K-12 Activities” and “Dr. Dirt: Homeowner Question & Answer” websites, responding to more than fifty questions every year from all over the world. His web site is at: http://www.wtamu.edu/~crobinson/car1.html A couple of years ago, Dr. Robinson was featured in the History Channel documentary, “Black Blizzard,” in which scientists and special effects experts recreated the dust storms of the 1930s. IN THE MONTHS TO COME April 5, 2010 – Kellie Sanders will speak to us on the Higgins Tornado. May 3, 2010 – Installation of new officers and, tentatively, Dr. Jean Stuntz and Claudia Stuart will give the program on African- Americans in Amarillo. HERE’S WHAT AMARILLO PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS FOR YOU! To encourage genealogists to visit and make more use of our books and other materials, the Library staff presents another list in our “Just a Few” segment to suggest books available on certain topics or states. We want to bring to your attention some very useful, but not always familiar resources that can be found on the genealogy bookshelves. If you haven’t visited the renovated library downtown, we encourage you to do so. The second floor (where the genealogy collection is still located) is now designated a research area. You will find it to be a quiet place, very conducive to spread your pedigree sheets out and pull those books off the shelves and do some serious genealogy! Along those lines the Reference/Special Collections Department wants to entice you genealogists by listing “just a few” NEW books that have been processed since the Department was closed.
976.667 HI
978.166 HI
976.744 HI
977.299 LA
977.361 HI
976.4549 HI
The Ancestry Library Edition has been connected to THREE computers. They are just waiting for you to pursue those ancestors! There are no printers yet, but we have been assured there will be soon. See you soon! * * * * FEBRUARY MEETING Due to the weather our February meeting was cancelled, but we hope Dr. Stuntz will be able to give her program at our May meeting. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY A lot of members still have not paid their dues for 2010. Please, use the membership form on the back of this newsletter and take care of this today. If we do not have enough paying members, we will not be able to continue to print and mail these newsletters. Nor will we be able to fund the October Conference, which is the highlight of our society’s year. _____________________________________________________________________________________ To Continue: THE HOUSE I GREW UP IN by Myrtle Jones Our new house was so cramped that we moved a nice chicken house north of the house (where a building had burned but the foundation was still there) and set it in there. That was our bunkhouse where my grandfather, Clint and the hired hands slept. In August 1945 I found my grandfather dead in this bunkhouse. My dad’s cousin and her husband and kids had come for a visit. Grandpa and Elmer went on a toot. Hamilton County was dry but we were close to the Colorado line where it was wet. So while they were pheasant hunting they made it over to Buckeye, Colorado, and bought some liqueur and had a good time. The next day Edith, Elmer and the family took off for Wichita. When Grampa didn’t get up that morning, Mother sent me to the bunkhouse about 5 P.M. I couldn’t wake him up. That evening when the hired hands went to bed after supper, they found him. Our new house was so cramped that we moved a nice chicken house north of the house (where a building had burned but the foundation was still there) and set it in there. That was our bunkhouse where my grandfather, Clint and the hired hands slept. In August 1945 I found my grandfather dead in this bunkhouse. My dad’s cousin and her husband and kids had come for a visit. Grandpa and Elmer went on a toot. Hamilton County was dry but we were close to the Colorado line where it was wet. So while they were pheasant hunting they made it over to Buckeye, Colorado, and bought some liqueur and had a good time. The next day Edith, Elmer and the family took off for Wichita. When Grampa didn’t get up that morning, Mother sent me to the bunkhouse about 5 P.M. I couldn’t wake him up. That evening when the hired hands went to bed after supper, they found him. In 1948 my parents added onto the house and put the fence around the place. Dad liked a good fence. I know when we first moved up there we had already bought the big pasture from Ed Scott (this is Kenneth and Keith’s grandfather) at the Valley State Bank. As I was told, this land was Hiram Ebb Nickerson’s and he lost it in his divorce (funny I didn’t know his name was Hiram until I read these census), but Dad didn’t like Ebb’s fence between them and built a new fence leaving a lane to move the cattle. Ebb promptly took his fence down, so Dad lost that land between them. Claud built the fence on the north side of the road going east into town. Some of this land belonged to the Salvation Army, and we rented it. Dad also built the cement fence on the west of the corral. The long barn on the north was there. It was sandstone, so Dad plastered it. Dad put the building on the east up. The building south of the corral (if it is still there; seems like it blew away) was built by Clint & Veryl when they had sheep. Now there was a nice pond right south of the house and the windmill tower and Dad built a well house there by the tower. There were trees shading the pond and Mother would siphon water for her garden which was west of the pond. I was supposed to water the garden, but I never could get that water started! (spoiled kid) My mother turned an old separator by hand in the well house. She fed the blue milk to the hogs and sold the cream. I couldn’t turn that separator either, but I did bring the cows in. Ha. TO BE CONTINUED
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Dr. Clay Robinson completed a B.S. in general agriculture and an M.S. in agriculture, plant science at West Texas A&M University at Canyon. He then earned his Ph.D. in soil science at Iowa State. He is currently Professor of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Science at W.T.. | < Prev | Next > |
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