Dr. Walter Buenger, former chair of the History Department at Texas A&M University College Station, and former president of the Texas State Historical Association, will speak at Omaha's historic Concord church†Friday, Oct. 24†after a dinner starting at 6:00 p.m.† Concord is ten miles east of Mount Pleasant.
?Buenger is the foremost authority of our region?s history,? according to Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director at Northeast Texas Community College.† Buenger?s††2001 book,†The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression,†was awarded the Coral H. Tullis Award, given annually to a book that focuses on Texas.
Yox notes that†The Path†was ?a product of Èlan, and arduous research. To single out eleven lightly researched northeastern counties in Texas as the subject, and then to weave fifty years of social and economic commentary together into a story about progress was a bold step in itself.† Buenger also captured the area?s detachment from the ?retrograde cotton economies of the South?, and its growing re-identification with Texas and its progressive economy.?
Dr. Melissa Weinbrenner, who received her Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M, will introduce Dr. Buenger. Both Dr. Buenger?s†The Path to the Modern South,†and Dr. Weinbrenner?s recent work on Mount Pleasant will be on hand for sale after Dr. Buenger?s lecture.† The event is sponsored by the State of Texas Walter Prescott Webb Society, the student auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association.† 2014 marks the first year that this state-wide association of college and university students will be meeting in Mount Pleasant.
The cost for the meal and lecture are $25, and $15 for students.† You can send a check to Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director, †PO Box 1307, Mount Pleasant, Texas 75456 to receive tickets or contact him at 903-434-8229 or†ayox@ntcc.edu†to reserve a place.
