The Trustees of the
Max and Minnie Tomerlin
Voelcker Fund
invite you to celebrate
the publication of
Last Farm Standing on
Buttermilk Hill:
Voelcker Roots Run
Deep in Hardberger Park
by Gayle Brennan Spencer
5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
November 16, 2010
Music Max and Minnie would
love provided by the Lone Star Swingbillies
The Twig Book Shop at
Pearl Brewery, 200 East Grayson
60 percent of the proceeds
from books purchased during this celebration will benefit the
Phil Hardberger Park
Conservancy
Banks M. Smith, Trustee, Max and Minnie
Tomerlin Voelcker Fund: "Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker
tenaciously clung to most of their former dairy farm as San Antonio
expanded northward to encircle it. Last Farm Standing on
Buttermilk Hill uncovers the couple's deep historical roots in the
land and reveals a story of San Antonio's rural heritage almost lost as
the city continues to grow."
The Honorable Phil Hardberger, Former
Mayor of San Antonio and President of Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy:
"Last Farm Standing on Buttermilk Hill unfolds a portrait of two
farmers - Max and Minnie Voelcker - whose stubbornness in the face of
development spared the towering oaks that now shade walkers, joggers and
bikers enjoying paths winding underneath them in the largest park to be
opened in San Antonio since the 1800s."
Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of
Environmental Analysis at Pomona College of Claremont, California, and
author of Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South
Texas: "Few San Antonians remember Buttermilk Hill, but Gayle
Spencer has recovered its significance through an intimate portrait of the
dairy-farm families who once inhabited the rolling North Side terrain.
Only the Voelckers held out against encroaching sprawl, and the result is
Hardberger Park, a verdant vestige of the city's bucolic past."
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