Another year has passed and its time once again for the famous
Summer Academy for Minority Scholars at
Texas State University in San Marcos. So far we have been to the
Institute for Texan Culture in San Antonio, taken a tour of 4 different religious sites in Austin, and participated in a
necrogeography tour of the San Marcos area, visiting 3 old cemeteries. One of the burial grounds was that of slaves from the Kyle area; most of those graves were unmarked, but clearly distinguishable by sunken places in the ground.
The 30 students and their teachers are preparing PowerPoints about the many different cultural groups that settled Texas, including the Wends, Irish, Czechs, Vietnamese, and my group, the
Lebanese.
Tomorrow morning we'll do our presentations and depart for home. Some groups have as far to drive as
Los Fresnos, and another is from
Buda, 20 minutes away. All of us plan on returning next year.
Barsana Dham, Driftwood
Uhland Cemetery
Log cabin, Institute for Texan Culture
Synagogue, Austin
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