Snake farm

A snake farm is a facility that houses and breeds a wide variety of snakes, often for the purpose of research and the collection of venom for the creation of antivenom. Many snake farms are primarily tourist attractions. Notable snake farms exist in the United States, Thailand, and China.

Snake farms in the United States

Snake farms in China

Deqing Snake Culture Museum has been developed as a local tourist attraction.

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Ray Wylie Hubbard (born November 13, 1946) is a Texas country singer and songwriter.

Early life

Hubbard was born in the town of Soper, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in south Dallas, Texas in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin Murphey. Hubbard graduated in 1965 and enrolled in college, at the University of North Texas, as an English major. He spent the summers in Red River, New Mexico playing folk music.

Musical career

1970s

During his time in New Mexico, Hubbard wrote "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother", made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker's 1973 recording. Bolstered by the success of the song, he was signed by Warner Bros. Records and he then put together a band of friends and locals and in 1976 released Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Cowboy Twinkies. Unbeknownst to Hubbard, after he had finished recording his version of the album, producer Michael Brovsky took the sparse yet heartfelt recordings and decided to "Nashville-ize" the sound by adding larger overdub mixes than necessary and female backup singers to what should have been a more intimate sound as first envisioned. The end result was "a botched sound" that Hubbard disapproved of vehemently, but despite his attempts to block it, it was still released.