Patsy Cline's career really only lasted three years — and the complete recorded output from that career lasts two hours and ten minutes — but her importance is out of proportion to those numbers.
In 1973 Patsy was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time.A bell tower has been erected in her memory at the Shenandoah Memorial Park, where Patsy Cline is interred. Several Highways, including the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway, Route 522, and Patsy Cline Boulevard in Winchester, have been named in her honor.
July 20, 2010: Diane Tribitt interviews Susie McEntire!
Oh, You Cowgirl!
By: Shirley Morris © 2008
Some remember her as "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" The greatest cowgirl of all. Others remember her for the outrageous clothes she designed and wore, bringing beauty and femininity to a tough, masculine sport and way of life. Some mourn her for her hard end... the way she died. Alone, in a horrible Wyoming blizzard in 1933.
Paul Pumpian majored in TV Writing And Production at the University of North Carolinaand went on to write for dozens of TV variety shows, industrial films and radio commercials. He’s penned 3 National Magazine short stories; a comedy album and has written material for Friar’s Roasts, Golden Boot Awards and numerous stand-up comedians. For 23 years, he was a steady contributor to the “Blondie” comic strip.
He has owned, bred, raced and shown a number of World and National Champion Appaloosa horses.
Pumpian’s years of research into the American West and the Mexican Revolutionary period of 1911-1918 led to the writing of “Compadres” where his fictional characters blend with historical personalities and events.
Three outstanding recipients have been selected to receive the National Day of the Cowboy Organization’s 2009 Cowboy Keeper Award.
Dakota Livesay, Publisher of Chronicle of the Old West; Margo Metegrano, the extraordinary force behind the Bar-D Cowboy Poetry website, and The Texas Trail of Fame Organization, are each recognized with a 2009 Cowboy Keeper Award, presented by the National Day of the Cowboy 501(c)(3) Organization and its Board of Directors.
The Cowboy Keeper Award is bestowed upon individuals and organizations that make a substantial contribution to the preservation of pioneer heritage and cowboy culture. The award was conceived in support of the organization’s mission to increase awareness for the Day of the Cowboy; a day of heritage celebration proclaimed by Congress, state legislatures, and governors each July since 2005.
