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HERITAGE PROGRAMS
VOLUME I City of College Station Parks and Recreation Department September 5, 2011
"Allenfarm – Four Generations"
Bill Terrell, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011
Sponsor: College Station Parks& Recreation Senior Programs
"Unique Brazos Valley Architecture"
Jim Singleton, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
Sponsor: Texas Trading Post, Linda & Russ Harvell
College Station Conference Center, Room 127
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., $5/pp Reserve now!
979.764.3491 or aboykin@cstx.gov
No Program in December.
PHOTOS AROUND TOWN
In case you haven’t noticed, photos from our Project
HOLD archives are popping up all over town. The
Original Fried Pie Shop on University Drive is the
most recent business to use our photos to decorate
their store. The new Half-Price Books on University
Drive is also sporting some of our photos. In addition,
Kristen Distributing is using a few of our photos in a
new promotional poster. It just goes to show you that
everything old IS new again!
COMING this FALL at the Conference Center
SAVE THE DATES!
October 19, 2012
October 19-20, 2013
CELEBRATE
WITH US!
Heritage Programs POB 9960 College Station, TX 77842 1300 George Bush Drive aboykin@cstx.gov 979.764.3491
75th Anniversary
Celebration
LETTER FROM A FAN
July 21 - Today's History Luncheon was delightful in every
way. Robert Borden's presentation was expectedly
informative and overall hospitality flowed freely. I am so
pleased to be a part of a city which supports such programs
contributing to the quality of life for its citizens. Your role,
Anne, is essential to its success. Thank you for the superior
and dedicated work you do in creating and managing. You
are appreciated, Janet Quiram, retired history teacher
Hello, my name is Barbara S. (Dunning) Lewis. My
Grandfather: Henry Wadsworth Taylor Dunning
was a student at Texas A & M in 1901. I came
across 3 letters that my Grandfather wrote home to
his parents. Two of the letters were about just
everyday things but the other one contained these
details:
My Grandfather was telling his parents that the
President of A & M had just died and that the train
with his body would be coming.....that everyone was
in mourning and they were all going to the train
station to await the arrival of the President:
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, President July 1,
1898-December 2, 1901. He writes about several
details about the approaching funeral and also
states that they expect that the Governor of Texas
(at that time) was also expected to be in attendance.
I would be happy to send a copy of this letter for the
Texas A & M archives but I am afraid that it will
be lost or otherwise end up on a closet shelf
somewhere.
Please advise and thanks.
Barbara S. Lewis, University of Arkansas
(Note: Click on the title of this story to see the letter in the
Project HOLD archives.)
A LETTER
FROM 1901 "A Short History of the Laws and
Legal Community of Brazos Valley"
The Honorable W.T. “Tom” McDonald, Jr.
Wednesday, September 21
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Reserve now! 979.764.3491
Sponsor: Crestview Home Health
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster
President of AMC 1898-1901
NEW Brazos County Courthouse OLD Brazos County
c. 1955 Courthouse, c. 1892
President of AMC 1898-1901