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The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™
presents:

Saturday, August 9, 2008
11:00 AM-12:30 PM in the Village Gallery
Admission: $5 (includes all day admission to the Village
and free use of a sound wand for the day)
For more information, call: (325) 572-3365

Longtime sports writer and broadcaster Al Pickett comes to the Village in August to share with you Texas sports history that even sports afcionados will find new. Pickett, a contributor to many sports magazines and former sports editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, is a name familiar to sports fans throughout the Big Country. His 2004 book, Team of the Century, published by State House Press, recounted the famous Abilene High School football teams of the 1950s. More recently, he is the author of The Greatest Texas Sports Stories You’ve Never Heard, also a State House imprint. This is your chance to hear the stories and get an autograph from the expert himself, Al Pickett!

Books will be available to purchase.

Our ongoing Chautauqua Learning Series is based on the Chautauqua movement which spread throughout the rural United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It provided educational lectures and entertainment for average Americans before the advent of mass media like radio and television. The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™ is proud to continue the spirit of that tradition in the unique setting of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village.

The Grady McWhiney Research Foundation would like to say Thank You to our honored suporters for helping us make the Chautauqua experience available to our community: The Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Judd White ~ CBS Insurance LLP, and Red Steagall.