One Christmas in Old Tascosa
Contributors: Red Steagall (Foreword); Judy Wise (Illustrator)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: October 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9780896725881
Subjects: Depressions; Personal Memoirs; Biography/Autobiography; 20th century; Texas; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Old-time music; History; Christmas; Regional Subjects - South; United States - 20th Century/Depression; 1929; Tascosa
Description: "Illustrated Christmas memoir. Quintille Speck-Firman Garmany, who was seven in 1931, recalls her Christmas pageant that year in Old Tascosa's one-room schoolhouse, how the Depression and Dust Bowl affected her and her classmates' lives, and how an unpredicted blizzard introducted her to Frenchie McCormick. Two historical photographs. Song lyrics"--Provided by publisher.