Austin Archives Newsletter

All members receive one copy of the current AHCA newsletter containing:

• News about the Austin History Center

• News about the Austin History Center Association

• Wonderful photos from the AHC’s collections

• The ever-popular “Gone From Austin” column

• “From the Archivist” of the AHC

In 2001, the AHCA published a special edition of Austin Archives titled A Few Austin Stories: Excerpts from Oral History Interviews. Part of a larger oral history transcription and preservation project partially funded with a grant from the Bill and Bettye Nowlin Fund of the Austin Community Foundation, this publication is illustrated with historic photographs from the Austin History Center and includes excerpts of selected oral histories included in the project as follows:

• Jeff Friedman & Kinky Friedman: Austin as “Music City Centro”

• W. Astor Kirk: Desegregating the Austin Public Library

• Esther Berg Stuart: Nursing Smallpox in 1917

• Janet Fish: Remembering the Great Depression & Goodall Wooten

• Richard Niles Graham: Woodlawn, the “Hoodoo House”

• Consuela Medina: Treating Polio at Brackenridge

New members receive one complimentary copy as a membership benefit. Copies may be purchased copies online, in the Austin History Center Reading Room, or by for calling(512)974-7383.