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Cotton, History And A Passion For Giving Back “It is not about us, it is about the industry and agriculture in general. We are not trying to promote ourselves. We are glad we are in a position to give,” said Dan Taylor, a cotton producer and current president of the FiberMax Center for Discovery (FCFD) board of directors. “Cotton has fed and clothed many people on the High Plains of Texas and we need to remember the past,” Linda Taylor said. Together, Dan and Linda are the sponsors of the new Cotton Heritage Center currently under construction at the FiberMax Center for Discovery in Lubbock. This new wing will tell the story of cotton production with an emphasis on the history of cotton ginning. It will house the 1875 Goodman Gin, an entire 1912 Lummus gin line out of Brookshire, Texas, in addition to Dan and Linda’s collection of unique cotton artifacts. The Taylor’s love and appreciation for the cotton industry has grown over their time on the High Plains. Dan grew up in Blum, Texas, on a cotton farm, and had never set foot in Lubbock until he arrived for college at Texas Tech. He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do, but after hand-harvesting cotton from childhood till he graduated high school, he knew he didn’t want to work with cotton.
West Texas Cotton Farming It was at Tech that he met Linda Featherston who grew up on a ranch in Goldthwaite, Texas, where they did a little farming, but never grew cotton in her lifetime. Dan jokes that Linda thought wool and mohair was the fiber of choice until she moved to West Texas. When Dan graduated with an agricultural education degree in 1964, he married Linda and started teaching agriculture science at Lubbock-Cooper. He bought a used 1953 Super M Farmall and started a 6-acre
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