Upcoming Events
At the Eastland County Museum, Our Lives, Our Stories: America’s Greatest Generation chronicles the remarkable span of history lived by Americans born in the 1910s and ’20s. Featuring photographs, oral histories, and artifacts like a wicker baby scale and a 1940s home kitchen, the exhibit explores American life starting with the Great Depression and continuing through World War II and the Baby Boom. The exhibit runs January 28–March 16 in Eastland before moving to Lubbock’s Silent Wings Museum, where it shows April 6–May 25. 254/965-6190.
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In the days before refrigeration, wintertime in Texas provided the cold temperatures required to safely prepare meat for the year to come. Nash Farm in Grapevine, a 5.2-acre farm dating to 1859, recalls this aspect of our culinary heritage with a hog butchering and curing workshop January 17–18. Day one of the hands-on class covers basics like scraping hair from the hide and butchering various cuts. Day two covers rendering lard, making sausage, curing meat, and how the smokehouse works. Participants must be at least 16 years old and may register for one or both days. 817/410-3185.
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What better place than the zoo to watch Sergei Prokofiev’s timeless composition Peter and the Wolf? The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and InterActive Theater Company will stage the performance at 2, 3, and 4 p.m. January 18 at the Houston Zoo’s Brown Education Center. Written to inspire children’s interest in classical music and instruments, the show features a story narrator with chamber orchestra and actors portraying Peter, the wolf, and other characters. Fittingly, the story concludes with the wolf spared from hunters and escorted to the zoo. Call 713/533-6500.
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Long known as the “home of the grapefruit,” Mission has celebrated its agricultural roots since 1932 with the annual Texas Citrus Fiesta. Highlights include the Product Costume contest on January 17, in which costumes must be decorated with citrus or citrus-based coloring, and the Parade of Oranges on January 31, which has a contest category that requires floats to be at least 85 percent covered in locally grown citrus. There’s also a vaquero cook-off, carnival, arts and crafts fair, and coronation of various citrus “royalty.” Call 956/585-9724.
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El Paso Pro-Musica’s annual Chamber Music Festival spans the entire month of January, regularly garnering national and international critical acclaim for bringing artistic excellence to the border region.
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On January 1st Bandera County Cowgirls celebrate their cowgirl history as they gather for a panoramic photo in the arena at the Hill Country State Natural Area at noon. Following the photo, demonstrations of showmanship, dressage, and speed events will be held in the arena which will also feature storytellers and singer/songwriters.
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The 12th annual Jefferson Quilt Show, Quilts on the Bayou, sponsored by the Jefferson Regional Quilt Alliance and the Jeffersonian Institute, will be held January 23–25, 2015 in the Cypress Valley Education Center located at 120 East Austin Street in Jefferson. Quilts on the Bayou is a viewers’-choice open show with prizes and ribbons awarded. Entries are encouraged from all quilters.
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Photos: (from top) Farewell to Marines by the Semper Fidelis Club, St. Paul, MN. Photograph, 1942, Collection Minnesota Historical Society; Courtesy Grapevine CVB; Courtesy River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Will van Overbeek.
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