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Cover story on Skinny Pierce.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Buddy Allen, Eddy Arnold, Frenchie Burke, Johnny Bush, Carol Cisneros, Patsy Coleman, Wanda Conn, Hondo Crouch, Joe Ely, Barbara Fairchild, Freddy Fender, Kent Finlay, Chulas Fronteras, Carroll Gilley, Gary Gray, Ron Hanna, Bob Harrington, Chris Holzhaus, Bill Hutson, Jerry Jeff, Waylon Jennings, Joe Lubbock, Darrell McCall, Huey Meaux, Augie Meyers, Cathy Morgan, Willie Nelson, Gary P. Nunn, Robert Payne, Guero Polkas, Douglas Quintet, Dub Robinson, Doug Sahm, Lana Seekatz, Gary Stewart, Andy Stone, Randy Toman, Ernest Tubb, Jerry Waddel, Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Guitar Watson.

Bee Spears, Bassist for Willie Nelson, holding a rooster and his bass guitar on stage at the grand opening of the Austin Opry House. Image published on page 6 of the August 1977 issue of Action Magazine, available at https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/4560.

Cropped photograph of music promoter, Larry Trader taken at the July 1977 opening of the Austin Opry House. Image published on page 6 of the August 1977 issue of Action Magazine, available at https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/4560.

Paul English chatting with an unidentified woman at the grand opening of Willie Nelson's Austin Opry House. Image published on page 7 of the August 1977 issue of Action Magazine, available at https://dc.library.txstate.edu/node/4560.

Cover story on Marc Benno

From 1999-2001, NASA partnered with History students at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) to conduct interviews with former employees who lived in the Central Texas area. Interviewees include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs.