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Phone:______Email:______If you sign up for a membership with the Texas Heritage Museum today, you may also sponsor a brick at a special low price of $75. Using the space below, tell us what you want your brick to say. Please limit to 11 characters per line and three lines per brick. If you decide to purchase more than one brick, please attach additional information to this form. Those wanting to buy a brick without a membership may do so at the regular price of $100. Letter from the Director I am proud to inform you that the Texas Heritage engraved bricks in the walkway. If you have not Yes, I would like to sponsor a brick. Please make check or money order payable to Texas Heritage Museum staff completed a two-day site visit by purchased an engraved brick, please considering Museum. For your convenience we also accept VISA, the National Museum Assessment Program Grant doing so to honor a loved one. ______MASTERCARD, DISCOVER & AMERICAN EXPRESS. through the American Association of Museums. We are actively seeking new ways to improve the NAME ON CARD______The Texas Heritage Museum was one of only six ______CARD TYPE______fulfillment of the museum’s mission. Together we museums in Texas and 111 museums nationally are enhancing your EXPIRATION DATE______to be awarded this grant. The site visit provides ______experience – the Texas CARD NUMBER______a confidential process of self study, peer review Heritage Museum and implementation supported through the Experience. American Association of Museums toward museum accreditation. Thank you for your support of the Texas I am also pleased to announce that the Texas Heritage Museum at Texas Heritage Museum Heritage Museum membership is growing, and we Hill College! Hill College Campus are currently at forty-two memberships. If you have 112 Lamar Drive not joined, please consider becoming a friend of the Sincerely, Hillsboro, TX 76645 [email protected] Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College. John Versluis (254) 582-2555 The museum’s Medal of Honor memorial to Native- Director Born Texans’ memorial engraved brick project has Texas Heritage Museum John Versluis The Texas Heritage been successful. Currently, we have placed 73 Director Museum’s mission is to explore Texas and Texans during wartime and how those experiences affect November Book Signing to be Held at THM us today. The public is invited to a River region of Johnson, book-signing forum at the Texas Hill, and McLennan counties, Heritage Museum, there will also be artifacts on Texas Heritage Museum is proud to help with historic preservation and 11 a.m., Sat., Nov. 22. Various display from both Navarro and education by being a member of the Wichita-related items will be Limestone counties from part following organizations: exhibited, including author’s of a collection belonging to research materials, photographs Kenny Meadows of Grandview. of Wichita people, structures Representatives of the Wichita from the National Archives and and Affiliated Tribes in the National Anthropological Anadarko, Oklahoma, will Archives and numerous other be present. Hors d’oeuvres sources. In addition to the will be served following the Indian artifacts from the Brazos presentation. (full story inside) Scholarships Hill College Press Releases New Book Other Happenings at the Museum Texas Heritage Museum Awarded Kitikiti’sh: The Wichita Indians Celebrating National Indian On a side note, the Center has We are proud to and Associated Tribes in Texas, Heritage Month at THM received some interesting copies Hill College announce that we have 1757-1859 by Earl H. Elam (453 November is National American and originals of Civil War letters. 112 Lamar Dr. two recipients of the pp., 26 illus., notes, bibliography, Indian Heritage Month. In Everyone is invited to come out to Hillsboro, TX 76645 Texas Gun Collectors index), the most recent Hill College celebration of this month, and as visit and browse. (254) 582-2555 Ext. 295 Association-Harold Press publication, is available for a complement to Dr. Elam’s new [email protected] circulation at $30 (plus tax for Texas book on the Wichita Tribe in North 29th Annual THM Symposium B. Simpson Memorial Ft. Worth purchasers). It is available in the Central Texas, the museum will The 2009 symposium will focus on Endowment Scholarship Dallas Texas Heritage Museum gift shop or display Native American artifacts Texas and Texans during World War this semester! This I-35 provides $500 annually by mail. To mail orders, add $4.00 and photographs in its temporary II. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Hi l l s b o r o for shipping and handling and send Wichita Indians 1898 gallery. There will be a members- Archie McDonald, regents professor Corsicana for Hill College students Whitney Mexia to: Hill College Press, Texas Heritage with an interest in history only opening for this exhibit on Nov. of history, Stephen F. Austin State Museum, Hill College, 112 Lamar lived in villages of dome-shaped University and executive director, and is renewable for 5, at 6 p.m., at the museum. The Drive, Hillsboro, TX 76645. The grass houses, hunted buffalo and grew East Texas Historical Association; I-35 Exit 368 one year. It also gives exhibit will be open to the public book is based on more than 40 years large crops of corn, melons, squash other speakers as follows: Dr. Hillsboro, TX recipients the opportunity Nov. 6 - Dec. 12. of research and writing on Wichita and beans. Together with buffalo, Kelly E. Crager, Head, Oral to work part-time at history by the author. these items were subsistence food for History Project, The Vietnam Museum Hours the museum, helping Holiday Shopping at THM themselves and trade items to other With the holidays quickly Archives at Texas Tech University; Mon. - Thurs. 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. to accession artifacts, A Little History about the Indians. Their long-standing villages approaching, please stop by our Bob Bowman, author, journalist, Fri. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. develop exhibits and Wichitas and Associated Tribes in North Central Texas between the THM Gift Shop where you can be publisher and public speaker of June - Aug. Sat. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. update our computer (galleries only) The people in historic times known as mid-18th and mid-19th centuries were sure to Lufkin, Tex.; Dr. Joe Cheavens, database. We are thrilled Wichita, Waco, Tawakoni, Taovayas, along the Red River in the Spanish find a little History Professor at Hill College; to be partners with the and Yscanis, all spoke the same Fort area of Texas. They were also something David B. Gracy, Governor Bill Contacts Texas Gun Collectors language, had similar cultures, and located near the Sabine River for anyone Daniel chair in Archival Enterprise Association for a second John Versluis considered where Lake Tawakoni was later on your in the School of Information at the Director year. The recipients themselves to established and along the Brazos River list. You University of Texas at Austin. The [email protected] are Johnny Moreno of be one people. from the area of present Lake Whitney will find symposium will be held on Sat., Kendall Milton Hillsboro and Victoria The Kichai to below the city of Waco. A large mugs, April 4, 2009. More information Curator/Archivist [email protected] Doskocil of Grandview. (Keechi) were complex also existed for many years stuffed THM Gift Shop regarding the symposium will be Congratulations, and a distinct on the outskirts of the community animals, old time toys, bingo games, available in the next newsletter. Dr. Earl Elam welcome aboard! of Tehuacana in Limestone County. Historian/Editor tribe, but they dog tags, and picture frames, not to [email protected] were closely Other sites sometimes occupied were mention books on cooking, historical Renovation is Complete associated with on branches of the Trinity River near Anita Tufts Texas courthouses, military The Texas Heritage Museum Archivist/Librarian the Wichita the forks of the Brazos River in present engagements, and even some books recently completed renovation in its [email protected] confederation. Young County, and on the Wichita for kids. All visitors will receive a Weapons Gallery. Thanks to the hard All of them Assadowa 1872 River at Wichita Falls. 15% discount on all items, starting work of our Maintenance Manager New Numbers Nov. 3 through Dec. 12, 2008. Frank Williams, we now have many Museum members will receive 15% of our guns back on display and Hill College will be What is Next for the Hill College Press? off in addition to their standard 10% behind a receiving a new phone system including new A forthcoming work of Hill College as well as the writings of participants discount. protective Johnny Moreno plexiglass phone numbers starting Press, planned for completion in and public records. Gracy holds mid-November. 2009, is a book called Sunrise! the Governor Bill Daniel chair in Fall Cleaning Underway enclosure. The main Please check our web Governor Bill Daniel and the Second Archival Enterprise in the School of at the HRC site for our new contact focus Liberation of Guam by David B. Information at the University of Texas Time and dust are flying in the information. Gracy II, a well-known Texas author. at Austin. Daniel’s wife was Vara library as preparation for a massive of this maneuver of book shifting and gallery is It is the story of the administration Faye Martin, a native of Hillsboro, Newly Renovated Weapons Gallery In the Know of governmental affairs on Guam Tex., and for whom the performing shelf rearrangement is underway. World War I and large weapons, but we hope Did you know that 908 by Daniel after he was appointed arts facility on the Hill College When this war against misplaced people visited the museum to continue working on updating governor of the territory by President campus in Hillsboro is named. Bill books is over, orderliness will once this past quarter, and 53 display cases in this section to reflect Victoria Doskocil John F. Kennedy. The work is based Daniel’s brother, Price Daniel, was again reign supreme, and the library people used the Historical on personal contacts with Daniel and governor of Texas, 1957-1963. will be an accessible and beautiful other Texas conflicts as needed. Research Center? others who were involved at the time, arrangement of tomes of military history.