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Article: TEXAS FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL FOUNDER LEAVES LEGACY OF CULTURE, FOLKLORE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 24, 2006
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The University of Texas at San Antonio issued the following news release:
Nearly four decades ago, O.T. Baker, former field and research director and project manager at UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, headed a delegation to co-sponsor the Festival of American Folklife with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
A few years later, in 1972, Baker founded the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio with 2,000 food and arts and crafts vendors and music and dance performers.
Baker died Saturday, Jan. 21 at age 95.
Jo Ann Andera, ITC director of festivals, said Baker was the visionary behind the Texas Folklife Festival, which now boasts 10,000 participants representing more than 40 ...