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Pictured are (back, from left) James Kearney, Weldon Koenig, Neale Rabensburg, Rodney Koenig, Judy Pate, Rox Ann Johnson, Larry Jackson, Dudley Dobie, Norman Reynolds, (front) Leonard Schulze, Wendy McCredie, Mary Koenig, Carolyn Heinsohn, Virginia Leech, Marie Watts, Sally Reynolds, Bill Bishop, (seated) Annette Citzler, Arnold Romberg. Not pictured: Babette Fraser Hale.
Twenty Fayette County residents met in La Grange on Feb. 18 and resolved to revive a local literary society which has been dormant since 1859.
The Prairie Blume Society was initiated in 1857 by Johannes C. N. Romberg, who was called the German poet laureate of Texas. It met monthly for three years, to hear and critique poems and stories written by mostly young Fayette County German-speaking…
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