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Article: Television Inventor's Arizona Relatives Recall Quirks.
- Article from:
- The Tribune (Mesa, AZ)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2002
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Byline: Ed Taylor
Sep. 7--Some 30 years ago, Joe Farnsworth read a story in a third- grade class at Mesa Edison School about how a man named Philo T. Farnsworth had invented electronic television.
That set him to wondering if there was any family relationship.
Joe went home and asked his father, Mesa businessman Ross Farnsworth, if there was any connection. Indeed, there was. Ross' father (and Joe's grandfather), who also was named Joe, was a first cousin of Philo. They were members of a different branch, but they were still the same family.
"I was shocked," Joe recalls when he learned of the relationship. "I had not heard anything of ...
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... ... Hubbard is still out there recording, still making albums that compare favorably with the work of such Texas tale-spinners as Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen and the late Townes Van Zandt. Especially Van Zandt, whose parched voice and ironic detachment occasionally ...
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