Author Joe Nick Patoski to discuss Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Last of the Great Texas Bluesman
December 3, 2009
5:30-8 p.m.
$4 museum members, $8 nonmembers – Seating is limited.
This is the fourth and final lecture the El Paso Museum of History is hosting on Texas Music History.
Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about Texas and Texans for more than 35 years. In addition to biographies on Stevie Ray Vaughan, Selena, and Willie Nelson, he has written the text to the books Texas Mountains, Texas Coast, Big Bend National Park, and Conjunto. A former staff writer for Texas Monthly magazine, his cover story in the August edition of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine details his killer hike along the ridge of the Franklin Mountains a year ago.
Patoski’s lecture will explain how and why Vaughan became the legend he is today, leading a brief journey through the blues scenes in Dallas and Fort Worth in the 1960s and in Austin in the 1970s that informed Vaughan and an entire generation of players. Most went to school in the bad parts of town to witness bluesmen like Freddy King and Lightnin’ Hopkins in their element, learning by example. But the opening of Antone’s Home of the Blues nightclub in the mid 1970s changed everything. Clifford Antone elevated blues into a fine art in Austin and his venue became the incubator for SRV and Double Trouble, Jimmie Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball, and many others.
5:30-6pm, Snacks - Meet & Greet
6-7pm, Lecture
7-7:30pm, After lecture discussion
7:30 – 8 p.m. Blues discussion at the Double Tree
Purchase a membership on December 3rd and get in free
RSVP to 351-3588
Prince McKenzie
“Getting Around the City in 1909:
Transportation in El Paso when President Taft met President Diaz”
Saturday, November 14, 2009
2:00 to 4:00 PM
FREE
In conjunction with the exhibit, The Taft-Diaz Meeting of 1909: A Prelude to the Mexican Revolution, the El Paso Museum of History is pleased to present a lecture by Mr. Prince McKenzie entitled, Getting Around the City in 1909: Transportation in El Paso when President Taft met President Diaz.
Prince McKenzie is known in the community as one of the founders, curator, and director for the Railroad and Trolley Museum of El Paso. Descended from a family that helped build the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1882, he is a qualified transportation specialist. As Prince himself has said, “I have ridden on the trolleys of El Paso for many years but not the ones that were running when President Taft was here.” For information, call Sue Taylor at 351-3588 or email at taylorsl@elpasotexas.gov.
Dr. Roy “Ben” Brown
“The Archaeology of Northern Chihuahua: Casas Grandes Update”
Saturday, November 21, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 PM
FREE
In conjunction with the exhibit, “Casas Grandes, Casas Chicas: Cottage Industries of Paquimé and Mata Ortíz,” the El Paso Museum of History is proud to present Dr. Roy “Ben” Brown presenting, “The Archaeology of Northern Chihuahua: Casas Grandes Update.” Dr. Brown is an internationally recognized expert in the conservation of earthen architecture. He has worked at Paquimé, the largest adobe city in Northern Mexico, and a number of archaeological, historical and paleontological projects focused on El Carrizal and the El Camino Real. Dr. Brown joined the staff of the Museo Histórico, the former Aduana Fronteriza de Ciudad Juárez, in 2001. He has been published in English, Spanish, and French. Together with Francisco Ochoa and Troy Ainsworth, Dr. Brown is currently researching the origins of the Old Customs House in Juárez. Come and spend an afternoon with a real life Indiana Jones. For information, call Sue Taylor at 915-351-3588 or email at taylorsl@elpasotexas.gov.
