January 7, 2011
“Texas dance halls are about family, history, romance and a way of life,” says Patrick Sparks of Texas Dance Hall Preservation Inc., a nonprofit group. “And if you’ve never danced in one, you are really missing out.”
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Anthony Brittin, professor emeritus of music at Texas Tech University, has written a memoir about his summer adventures working with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho as a college student and primarily about hitchhiking across the country to get to and from his job, which was more common back then than it is today.