This Heritage Voices episode features Ms. Betty Kimble and Mr. Howard Clark from Denton, Texas. In Episode 99 with Dr. Maria Franklin, Dr. Alex Menaker, and Doug Boyd, we started talking about the Bolivar Archaeological Project and the excavation of Mr. Tom Cook’s blacksmith shop. For the 100th episode of the Heritage Voices podcast (!), Jessica chats with Ms. Betty Kimble and Mr. Howard Clark who are direct descendants of Mr. Tom Cook. We talk about what it was like learning more about their family history through this project, seeing the artifacts from their ancestor found during the archaeology study, participating in and conducting oral history interviews, and how they have been sharing with the community about this important history. Their family story highlights so many different eras of American history. On that front, we were particularly lucky to have Ms. Betty Kimble share her work in the 1960s working with other mothers on desegregation through the Denton’s Women’s Interracial Fellowship.

Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Ms. Betty Kimble’s story in Desegregating Denton
• Article about Mr. Howard Clark’s 30 years with the Lewisville Police Department
• Excellent video about the Bolivar Archaeological Project
• Texas Department of Transportation Webpage about the Bolivar Archaeological Project
• Easy to read article about Mr. Tom Cook’s Legacy
• At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology of the Nineteenth-Century Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas (Article in Advances in Archaeological Practice)
• Presentation to the North Texas Archaeological Society about the Chisolm Trail and Bolivar Archaeological Project
• The Denton County Office of History and Culture
• Quakertown House Museum (DCOHC)
• I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty

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