Events

On May 22, the George Washington Carver Museum will host ASF Presents: Story Session, Vol 1: Featuring Elizabeth McCracken and Brandon Taylor. For more information, contact the George Washington Carver Museum.

In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. For more information, contact the Texas City Museum.

"The Cold War: History, Literature, and Culture" will take place in Austin at the LBJ Presidential Library from June 3–6. The institute will expand participants' understanding of the history of the Cold War and its representation in literature and culture. Presentations on the history of the Cold War will cover topics such as the origins of the Cold War; containment; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Vietnam War; Nixon, China, and the Cold War; and the legacy of the Cold War. Presentations on literature and culture will focus on the literature, film, music, and popular culture of the era.

At 6:30 p.m. on June 7, the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum will continue their family- and community-oriented film series with the film The League. The screening will be followed by a scholarly panel discussion. For more information, contact the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.