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Camp Howze Museum

Jan Seale

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Jan Seale
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Photo of 2012 Texas Poet Laureaute Jan Seale, who lived in Gainesville as a kid and would tag along to Camp Howze with her father who served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gainesville in the 1940s. In her 2021 poem, "Camp Howze, Texas 1944," Seale recounts an early memory of being at the camp while her father held a religious ceremony for soldiers.
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Photo provided by Jan Seale
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Jan Seale
Texas Poet Laureate
poetry
Historical Memory
WWII Literature
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Jan Seale