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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, 29, 30, 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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