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August 8, 2009 Melissa Sturdivant: The Management and Supression of Oak Wilt
July 11, 2009 Chautauqua Lecture: Obersvations from Camp Victory, Baghdad
June 13, 2009
May 9, 2009
Chautauqua Lecture: Best of Chautauqua
April 25, 2009 Erinshire Music Festival
April 11, 2009 Chautauqua Lecture: Poetry is not
a Four-Letter Word
March 28, 2009 4th Annual Texas Forts Trail
Vintage Base Ball Tournament
March 14, 2009 Chautauqua Lecture: The Art of Hand Weaving
February 14, 2009 Chautauqua Lecture: Emerging Christianity
January 10, 2009 Chautauqua Lecture: Plants Across the Frontier
December 13, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Christmas on the Frontier
November 8, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Campaign 2008: What Really Happened?
November 1, 2008 Dinner with History: Biscuits O’Bryan
October 11, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Jewish Historiography in the Hellenistic Period
September 13, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Don Frazier on his book Fire in the Cane Field
August 9, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Al Pickett tells the greatest Texas sports stories that you’ve never heard (until now!)
July 12, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Victorian Underpinings
June 14, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: A Nation Divided: Life and Times of the Civil War Soldier
June 9 - 12, 2008 Summer Writing Camp
May 10, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: A Sense of Place:  The Anglo-American Cultural Exchange and the Development of Community in Wartime England, 1942-1945
April 19, 2008 Erinshire Music Festival
April 12, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Stephen Hardin on his book Texian Macabre
March 8, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: The Global State of Women, 2008
February 9, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: “Don’t Let the Stars
Get in Your Eyes
January 12, 2008 Chautauqua Lecture: Book Publishing for Dummies
December 16, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: H.K. Edgerton and the Walk Across Dixie
December 8, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: The Geography of Abilene City
November 17, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Ghost Tour
November 10, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Born in Blood
October 13, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Exploring the Paranormal
September 8, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: C.S. Lewis
August 11, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture:
The Civil War Battle of Corint
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July 14, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Bastille Day
June 11-15, 2007 Summer Writing Camp
For students entering 9th to 12th grade
June 9, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Presidential Corruption
May 5, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: What if ... and Why?
May 4, 2007 A Dinner with Mark Twain
April 14, 2007 Chautauqua Lecture: Halls of Honor
March 31, 2007 Forts Trail Base Ball Tournament
and Book Signing
March 10, 2007
Chautauqua Lecture: Christian Responses
to Religious Diversity
February 10, 2007
Chautauqua Lecture:
Doing History

December 9, 2006
Chautauqua Lecture:
Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs:
American Ingenuity in World War II
November 11, 2006 Chautauqua Lecture:
The First Thanksgiving

September 29, 2006 50th Anniversary Celebration
March 31-April 2, 2006 Images in Time: Artists’ Photo Shoot
October 28-31, 2005 Halloween Nights:
The Ghostly Frontier

April 30, 2005 Annual Fundraiser
April 8-1, 2005
ALHFAM Mountain/Plains
Regional Conference

December 11, 2004
Christmas at the Gap
September 25-26, 2004
An Evening with Meriwether Lewis
September 25-26, 2004
Barbecue Dinner Theatre
September 25, 26, 2004 120th Anniversary of the Moving of the County Seat from Buffalo Gap to Abilene
September 25, 26, 2004 Will Rogers at the Village

July - October 2003
The Hot Summer of 1925: The Scopes “Monkey Trial” as viewed from Taylor County — A special exhibition in the Contonwood School
April 5, 2003
Buffalo Hunt
July 4, 2002
Fourth of July Celebration
May 25, 2002 Rolls Royce Auto Club Visit
February 18, 2002 Dinner With Davy Crockett
 



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