
A Great Annual Meeting
We want to thank both our speakers, Donaly Brice and Fletcher Clark for our Annual Meeting presentations. Did you know that Susanna was wounded in the leg at the Alamo? That was just one little known fact I learned from Brice’s talk. We also heard the premier performance of Clark’s song “The Ballad of Susanna Dickinson” with touching lyrics that capture her search for “a Good Man in Texas – one who deserves a Good Wife.” The ballad lyrics reflect Susanna’s life story and can

Historian Presents Susanna Dickinson Little Known Facts
Texas historian Donaly E. Brice, author of The Great Comanche Raid and Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado, and The Governor’s Hounds, and a resident of Lockhart, will share some little known facts about his town’s former resident Susanna Dickinson, the only white adult survivor of the Alamo, at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the O. Henry and Dickinson Museums. Presentation will be followed by “The Ballad of Susanna Dickinson” performed bysongwriter-musici