TGDP presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Austin TX: “Social networks and language change in New Braunfels German: a case study.” (Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas)
TGDP presentation at the winter meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Austin TX: “Is Texas German a creole?” (Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas)
First meeting of the Texas German outreach group at UT Austin. Discussion of plans to develop instructional materials for K-12 to teach knowledge about Texas German history, culture, and language to school children across Texas.
TGDP presentation by Jim Kearney:January 24, 2017, Columbus, TX, Nesbitt Memorial Library, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
TGDP presentation by Jim Kearney:January 5, 2017, Columbus, TX, United Daughters of the Confederacy talk, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
New TGDP publication by Jim Kearney:“European Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century.” In: Migration to New Worlds (London and New York: Adam Mathew publishing, 2017).
New TGDP publication by Jim Kearney:Book review in Yearbook of German-American Studies of Frederick Weygold; Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians by Christian Feest and C. Ronald Corum. (Altenstadt, Germany: ZKF Publishers, 2017)