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Donor Alert: A Sliver of Liver…

I have never read columns as entertaining as those penned by the late Erma Bombeck, who survived by cancer surgery, only to be claimed by kidney disease at age 69. Her battle was valiant as she underwent five years of dialysis before ultimately failing to survive transplant surgery that came too late. (Never mind she refused to be moved up on the list, instead insisting on waiting her turn.)

“The Cowboys' Christmas Ball”/Anson Pioneer Hall (1885)

Every December since 1885, Anson,Texas swells for a threeday ‘sworray’ more commonly called “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball.” It was originally held in the Morning Star Hotel by the founder of the event, Lenora Barrett and ran annually until a city ordinance ordered ’no dancing in Anson,’ in 1933. Mostly, the City Council had members of the Church of Christ, who did not allow dancing and they voted for this ordinance to prevent any dancing in Anson. This prevailed until 1940 when a group of Ansonites united to get the ordinance amended, altered and repealed which would allow dancing to continue at the annual ’sworray’ at the newly built Pioneer Hall.