Long before they flew over the theme park by that name, six actual flags flew over Texas. Four U.S. States have the good fortune to border Texas. The four states that border Texas are Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. One of the main activities Zavala students have planned for this week is the Bean and Corn Dish Dinner which will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the West of the Pecos Museum. The public will have an opportunity to experience Texas cuisine from the early 1800's.
Dinner includes beans, a variety of corn dishes, corn breads, desserts, coffee and tea.
Students will be auctioning off an assortment of box desserts. The New Mexico Department of Tourism has stockpiled nearly 800 events into its new 1997 New Mexico Vacation Guide. Weighing 2.1 ounces less than the 1996 annual, thanks to lighter paper and fewer pages, the 184-page guide also salutes 1997 as the second year New Mexico will be celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail. The back of the latest guide's state highway map is a four-color SFT brochure of New Mexico's 36 trail sites and attractions. The insert is timely, since the city of Clayton in northeast New Mexico cohosts an SFT Symposium in September.