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World’s Longest Name and Texas Renaissance Festival Mudeaters (1984) - The Tyrrell Historical Library Collection
Tyrrell Historical Library
Sound | 1984 | Color | English

Categories:
1980s
Beaumont
Jefferson County
Grimes County
PM Magazine
Festivals and Pageants
The Tyrrell Historical Library Collection
Texas Locations:
Grimes County
Jefferson County
Beaumont
This footage includes two 1984 segments for PM Magazine. The first introduces viewers to the local baby that holds the record for longest name. In the second segment, host Maryanne Walser watches the Mud Show at the Texas Renaissance Festival. First performed in 1980, the show continues to be an attraction at the annual East Texas festival. PM Magazine was a local news and entertainment television program broadcast on Beaumont’s KFDM-TV in from late 1970s to the mid-1980s. This segment aired on October 16, 1984.
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