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Lunch Break Special

Tuesday, July 7
Noon at the museum
Dr. Thomas Baker
"Eating Up Route 66L The Foodways of Roadside Dining in the Texas Panhandle"


Dr. Baker's presentation is an offshoot of two book projects he is working on for the University of Oklahoma Press. One book is a heritage tourism guide to the 175 miles of Route 66 across the Texas Panhandle. The other is a cookbook and stufy of the foodways of roadside dining on Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica.

Dr. Baker earned his Ph. D. in history at Texas Tech University. He currently teaches at Tarleton University. He is the W.K. Gordon Endowed Chair in Industrial History of "texas and Driector of the W.K. Gordon Center at Tarleton. He has taught at Texas Tech, Wroclaw Polytechnic University in Poland, the the University of North Texas. He has been curator at several musuems: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; the Fort Worth Museum of Science and history; Governor Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village at Baylor University; and the Director of Texas Hietage Museum in Hillsboro. He has authored 25 books.

You are welcome to bring your own lunch. If you would like to order a sandwich, please call the Museum by 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 2. Admission is free to members, otherwise regular admission charge of $5 for adults, $3 senior citizens and $1 for students.

Sponsors for this month are Dr. John Hanners and Steve Ramsey.

June 26-27 - Audie Murphy Days

July 14-18 - Camp Shenendoah Summer Camp for 4-6 year olds

July 21-25 - Camp Shenendoah Summer Camp for 7-10 year olds

 

Current Exhibits

Bits of the Orient

Bill and Gail Rolston are sharing their Netsuke collection with museum visitors during the month of June.

Netsuke are miniature carvings made of ivory, coral, wood, tortoiseshell, pottery, or gemstones. They were designed as toggles for silk cords that held various kinds of pouches and containers on the sashes worn by Japanese men in traditional dress.

The subject matter for Netsuke included history and legends, gods and saints, ghosts and goblins, animals (real and imaginary), people, customs, and more.

These tiny carvings are no longer used, since Japan has adopted Western dress, including pockets to store the items once held in the sash pouches. They are more alive than ever as collectors' items.

Come appreciate these fine examples of miniature sculpture.

 

 

The Audie Murphy
American Cotton Museum 

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P.O. Box 347
Greenville, Texas 75403
(903) 454-1990 or (903) 450-4502
 

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Greenville, Texas 75403
903-450-4502
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