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 Boyhood Home of John A. Lomax Posted by:  jackrock
N 31° 56.907 W 097° 40.266
14R E 625596 N 3535492
Saw this one near Meridian along state highway 144. It's located in an easy on/off picnic area.
Waymark Code: WM811V
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2010
Views: 10
Marker Number: 481
Marker Text:
1/4 mile west to boyhood home of
John A. Lomax
(1867 - 1948)
Only a log kitchen now marks the homesite of John Lomax, one of the foremost collectors of American folksongs. Here, on part of the Chisholm Trail, young Lomax heard cowboys crooning and yodeling to restless herds; Negro servants taught him jig tunes, chants, work songs, and calls; and on winter nights his family sang songs and swapped stories around a blazing fire.
Lomax began to write down this music while still a boy; and when he left Bosque County at age 20, he carried with him a roll of cowboy ballads -- the nucleus of his lifelong work.
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