100 Year Celebration - Entry Ticket

523 S. Mulberry St.,Luling TX 78648

06 August, 2022

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Celebrating 100 Years 🥳 … By 1921, despite expert advice from geologists that the Luling area was devoid of oil, Edgar B. Davis set in to work. He found himself drilling one dry hole after another, the remnants of his rubber fortune dwindling month by month, duster by duster. Davis was unfazed. His belief in providence was unshakeable, and according to his biographer Froh he also found solace in some words the Lord sent his way—Rudyard Kipling’s “If,” and especially these lines, which Davis believed were written for him and nobody else: ‘If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ Davis held on to the bitter end. By August 1922, he was in the red and on the verge of bankruptcy. Evidently his belief in divine providence was infectious, because he persuaded his office staff and roughnecks alike to keep working for him just a little bit longer, even if he couldn’t pay them. On August, their loyalty was redeemed when Davis’s lucky seventh well—Rios #1, began producing. Soon enough the gushers would come as well. The field’s output would eventually be measured in the hundreds of millions of barrels. Davis’s extravagant gratitude to the workers who stood by him in the dark times and to the town where he earned his latest and greatest fortune was that of a Huge Community BBQ Picnic. Never before or since has Luling seen such a party as the giant bash wildcatter Edgar Byram Davis hosted on June 5, 1926. Everyone from the surrounding three counties (Guadalupe, Gonzales, and Caldwell) was invited to the picnic, which sprawled out over one hundred acres of San Marcos River frontage. We are celebrating 100 Years this August and we want to tip our hats to Edgar B. By throwing our own Community Picnic. So mark your calendars and join us!! August 6th, 7pm-11pm at the Luling Foundation Farm. Hosted by the Luling Oil Museum and The Luling Foundation Farm. Read more about Edgar B. Davis by clicking the link below: https://www.texasmonthly.com/.../edgar-byram-davis.../