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Museum Staff. "Earl Tracy: Healer or Con Artist?" In The Midst Of, Cokato Historical Society (February, 2023) vol. 43 no. 1. In the 1930s, people from all across the nation flocked to Cokato to be healed by a man named Earl Tracy. Although many would claim he was a good man and a talented healer, others saw him a womanizer and a con artist.
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Mike Worcester. "Dispatches from Texas: Earl Tracy--The Musical," In The Midst Of, Cokato Historical Society (December, 2000) vol. 20 no. 4. As the house lights slowly dimmed in the Richard Slocumb Theatre on the campus of San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, the crowd quickly hushed. A feeling of anticipation crackled in the humid October air—that something magical was about to happen.
A lone spotlight illuminated a stone archway. After what seemed like an eternity—though in reality was only a couple seconds—a solitary figure strode in to the light. Dressed in a black suit coat and pants, crisply starched white shirt, and fedora, he lingered for a moment, drawing the audience’s attention to his presence. Then he began to speak. “My name’s Earl Tracy,” he said. “Maybe you’ve heard of me.” And so for the next 2½ hours, we watched and listened as a group of Texans—a cast that ranged in age from preteens to senior citizens—told the story of a man whose activities created a myriad of emotions amongst the people of his hometown. The words, the songs, the dance sequences, the visuals, and the evocative monologues of the man who portrayed Earl, made all of us realize that his life was a journey few of us could have imagined. Mike Worcester "The Black Eagle Comes To Cokato." In The Midst Of, Cokato Historical Society (February, 2017) vol. 37 no. 1. Each fall, from 1903 through 1915, the Cokato Street Fair took place. We have written about those before. We also have two files of images from those events. One of those images came to us in July 1996. It was an undated postcard view of a speaker at one of the fairs. The image, seen be-low, showed how community events in those days functioned. The caption reads: “SPEECH, BY, SEN. M.E. CLAPP, “COKATO FAIR” COKATO MINN.”
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