Preserving a Texas-Czech Family Legacy
Fort Worth Public Library - Southwest Regional 4001 Library Ln, Fort Worth, TX, United StatesInterested in preserving your family history for both your own kin and researchers? Then this program is for you! Dawn Orsak will join us to discuss the history of her ancestors, the Morkovsky family, and self-publishing A.J. Morkovsky’s autobiography. Orsak will review how she acquired the family papers and other items, as well as the... Read more »
Images and Stories from TCU’s First 100 Years, 1873-1973
Fort Worth Public Library - Southwest Regional 4001 Library Ln, Fort Worth, TX, United StatesIn honor of TCU’s sesquicentennial this year, TCU’s own Dr. Gene Allen Smith and PhD Candidate Jackson W. Pearson will discuss the first 100 years of the university’s history. Many interesting tidbits can be found throughout its past, including an on-campus plane crash during a football game, and the enrolment of African American soldiers as... Read more »
“Aztec Pottery Reported Missing”: The 2001 Antiquities Heist at TCU
Palko Hall 3000 Bellaire Drive North, Fort Worth, TX, United StatesDid you know that TCU houses over one hundred pre-Columbian artifacts? And that a former university employee stole over 100 of them? Join us as Dr. Alex Hidalgo and students from his graduate-level class provide the in-depth story of the theft, including which artifacts were never recovered and what could have happened to them. They... Read more »