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The Galveston Storm from Many Different Perspectives

Clear Lake City – County Freeman Branch Library’s TGIF program this week is The 1900 Hurricane in Words & Pictures presented by Andrew Coleman, Historian, Digital Projects and Interpretations for the Galveston Historical Foundation. The event will be held in the Community Room of Freeman Branch Library located at 16616 Diana Lane. Friday, October 9. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

On Saturday, Lisa May, Director of Archives & Records for the Archdiocese of Galveston – Houston will give a talk on the 1900 Storm’s impact on area churches and the storm’s destruction of St. Mary’s Orphanage where ninety children and ten of their Sisters of Charity caregivers perished.  La Porte Community Library, 600 South Broadway. Saturday, October 10. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday Highlight Programs

Galveston, Oh, Galveston: Wednesday morning at Lone Star College – CyFair Branch Library, Ann will talk about the extensive research she did to give The Promise both its factual accuracy and period detail, as well as about how the 1900 Storm forever changed Galveston and Houston. The event will be held in the Library’s meeting room 101, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. 

Author Talk in Pasadena & Through a Night of Horrors: the 1900 Galveston Storm at Spring Branch Memorial

Look up ‘peripatetic’ in the dictionary and you may find a picture of Ann Weisgarber. Then again, you may not, because, if it’s anything like the flesh and blood Ann, it will probably be visiting another page of the dictionary—perhaps over in the W’s at ‘wayfaring’ or maybe the M’s for ‘mundivagant.’

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