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This Thursday is your last chance to catch the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Book and Art Tour inspired by The Promise. You can enhance your experience of reading the novel with this docent-led tour of the Museum's galleries. Each stop on the tour includes discussion of excerpts from the novel and artworks in the galleries that connect with the characters, narrative, or a prominent theme in The Promise. Please bring along your copy of the book and your willingness to share thoughts about what you read as well as what you see in the galleries. MFAH's Beck Building. 5601 Main Street. Thursday, October 29. 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

There is no doubt that Galveston bore the brunt of the devastating 1900 storm, but a hurricane as strong as strong as that one cuts a wide swath of destruction. This evening at Brazoria County - West Columbia Library, This evening at 7:00 p.m., Amanda McKay from the Varner-Hogg Plantation will look at the 1900 hurricane as it affected Brazoria County. The Varner-Hogg Plantation sits on 66 acres along the Brazos River. With its antebellum mansion, pecan orchards and original outbuilding, the plantation is a State Historic Site dedicated to educating visitors about issues of class, land and race in the context of Texas and American history.

Yes, Joseph Pellerin has been an adjunct professor of American History, first at Angelina College and then, for the past nine years at San Jacinto College, but he is also owner of Galveston Historic Tours, so it's a good bet that his lecture on the The Great Hurricane of 1900 this Friday October 23 at Deer Park Public Library won't be some dry recitation of facts. This is someone who knows how to keep an audience's interest. We hope to see you there!

The Great Hurricane
Deer Park Public Library
Friday, October 24.
11:00 a.m.
3009 Center St,