October 30th 2015 to
November 1st
Ft. Worth, TX
Ft. Worth Convention Center
Hosted by: Ft. Worth Council for the Social Studies
Presenting
Kinky Friedmen Conference Kick Off
Thursday Night7:30- 9:00 pm
October 29th, 2015Cost: $15 ($5 benefiting the Samaritan House)
Space is limited: 150 tickets reserved for TCSS Members
Kinky has agreed to stay and take pictures and autograph copies of his books.
Lunch with Joe Nick Patoski “Water Rights and Conservation”
Friday, October 31st, 2015
Writer for Texas Monthly, he has authored and co-authored biographies on
Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson,
and The Dallas Cowboys. His latest work is
Generations on the Land: A Conservation Legacy.
Cost: $20
Saturday, October 31st, 2015Reata Dinner Under the Dome with
Dr. Frank de La Teja
2007-2009 State Historian he has
published extensively on Spanish, Mexican and Republic-era Texas. He serves on the board of directors of Humanities
Texas.
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
Brunch with Adriana Bosch
She is a six-part Peabody Award wining series on the history of
Latinos in the United States. She was the Senior Producer, Latin Music USA for WGBH, a film on Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay, The
Great Fever, a critically acclaimed two-hour special Fidel Castro which
aired in January 2005 on PBS's American Experience, Jimmy Carter,
a three-hour documentary biography also for American
Experience.
Independent Filmmaker,
Documentarian, Producer