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“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 »
TCU Literary Legend Rediscovered: Philip Atlee and The Inheritors
Fort Worth Public Library - Southwest Regional 4001 Library Ln, Fort Worth, TX, United StatesDid you know that a novel published in late 1940 rocked the movers and shakers of Cowtown? The Inheritors by Philip Atlee (a pseudonym) was a thinly-veiled work of fiction... Read more »
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road
Fort Worth Public Library - Southwest Regional 4001 Library Ln, Fort Worth, TX, United StatesUS Route 66, called “America’s Mother Road” by John Steinbeck, carried countless travelers from Chicago to Los Angeles, through its midway point in Texas, during its fifty-year history. Join us... Read more »