UTPA curators archive Conjunto artifacts

  
 

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Curatorial Assistants Mary Kathryn Slayton and Michael Mena from the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) Border Studies Archive in Edinburg are shown Thursday helping archive the artifacts of the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum in San Benito. (Staff photos by Francisco E. Jimenez)

 

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com

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The Assistant Curator and curatorial assistants from the Border Studies Archive in the Library at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) in Edinburg are in the process of helping the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame & Museum clean, organize, and preserve thousands of valuable artifacts stored in the archives of the San Benito History Museum.

“Besides being the Conjunto Hall of Fame and Museum, part of our mission is to be a resource center where anybody can go when they want to know about the history of Conjunto,” said Texas Conjunto Hall of Fame and Museum President Rey Avila. “Our main concern is that we would have the information and records in another place, and that was the perfect place. We now have two facilities to utilize.”

Avila was referring to the UTPA Border Studies Archive, located at the campus library.

For more on this story, pick up a copy of the May 11 edition of the San Benito News. Or view our E-Edition by clicking here.

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