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BUILDING A CITY AND OFF TO WORK WE GO RECEPTION
Textile Gallery and Furniture Gallery
April 5, 2007
5:30-7:30
PIONEER SPIRIT AWARD DINNER
Amarillo Globe News Center
April 11, 2007
The Pioneer Spirit Award recognizes individuals, families, businesses or organizations that exemplify the pioneer character. Recipients are those who have not only worked to preserve the past for future generations, but have worked to assume a better presence for their fellow citizens of th Panhandle and the state of Texas. The 2007 event will honor this year’s Pioneer Spirit Award recipient, Genevieve Caldwell.
Cost: $75 per person
Reservations required. Call Amy David at 806-651-2233 or email adavid@pphm.wtamu.edu.
Who's Who in Your Family Tree II
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
April 14, 2007
1:00-4:00
Another installment of the popular "Who's Who" program. Noted author and WTAMU Artist in Residence Jodi Thomas will lead a seminar on how to make your family stories come alive through creative writing and storytelling. Learn to release and expand your creative side while sharing your family history. Program cost includes a copy of one of Jodi's books.
Cost: $10 PPHM members/$15 non-members - includes museum admission. Reservations required. Call Amy David at 806-651-2233 or email adavid@pphm.wtamu.edu.
EXPANSION OF FIREARMS EXHIBIT
Administrative Wing
Mid-April 2007
WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD
April 17 – 20, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 1:30 – 3:30 pm
This program is available for Pre-school students 3 – 5 years old and/or Kindergarten students who attend public schools, private schools, and Day Care centers and children of stay-at-home mothers. Registration is a MUST. Children can register for all four days or just for one day. The program will be approximately one hour per group each day. Each day will have a theme: Cowboy Day, Pioneer Day, Indian Day, and Fossil Day. The kids will do hands-on activities, taste unique foods, listen to storytellers, see Indian dancing, work like a pioneer, and learn about dinosaurs, etc. Admission cost for those participating will be free during their activity session.
Call Millie Vanover at 806-651-2249 to register
AUTOMOTIVATED
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
April 21, 2007
10:00-11:30 am
Dennita Sewell, Fashion Design Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum, will explain how streamlined silhouettes in fashion evolved with the new, aerodynamically designed automobiles of the 1930s. In science, streamlining is the use of forms to reduce air resistance and increase efficiency in moving forms. Streamlined design is characterized by rounded, tapered, shapes with a horizontal emphasis often marked with three parallel “speed” lines or “flow” lines.
$5 for PPHM members; $10 for nonmembers. Reservations required. Call (806)651-2258 or email ecunningham@pphm.wtamu.eduecunningham@pphm.wtamu.edu.
WESTERN WRITERS CONFERENCE
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
Thursday, April 26, 2007
7:00-9:00 pm
PPHM will host the public reading portion of the 2007 Western Writers Conference, organized by Dr. Alex Hunt, Assistant Professor of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages at WT.
Essayist and scholar Terrell Dixon of Houston will give a talk titled "City Wilds: An Environmental Ethic for the Twenty-First Century Texas" and poet Marian Haddad of San Antonio will read her work in a presentation called “Celebrating the Geography of Home.”
Terrell Dixon is a professor of English at the University of Houston. At present, he is writing a book on the connections between the Texas oil business, the Enron scandal, and the Alaska-North Slope oil reserves of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Marian Haddad is a Syrian-American poet who was born in El Paso and currently lives in San Antonio. She is currently at work on several new book projects, one of which concerns US-Arab relations in the post-9/11 world.
Complimentary Admission. Refreshments served.
MOTHER/DAUGHTER TEA
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
April 28, 2007
1:00-3:30 pm
Mothers and daughters of all ages are invited to an afternoon Panhandle Victorian Tea It is not a true tea without hats - and there will be lots of hats! Jo Crump, PPHM Auxiliary member, will discuss and display a portion of her hat collection she started in 1943. Currently, Jo has over 170 hats in her collection.
Each mother and daughter will then spend time decorating their own straw hats to be worn during tea time. Roxanne Skipworth, historical re-enactor, will serve an authentic Panhandle Victorian Tea.
You can register for the Mother/Daughter Tea before April 20, 2007, by calling Millie Vanover at 806-651-2249 or by email mvanover@pphm.wtamu.edu.
Cost for the program will be $7.50 per preson. Admission to the museum is free for participants.
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