Cisco Compass: Stories from The Big Country of West Texas

The Cisco Compass returns with a look at the history and future of the Lloyd Museum in Cisco. I am at the Museum most Saturdays 10-3 or I can open by appointment!

After a hiatus, the Cisco Compass returns with a visit with Larry Sanders who reveals the hidden history of the ATLAS ICBM in the Big Country.

Welcome Back to the Cisco Compass! In this episode Dr. Deborah Liles stops by prior to her talk at the Grace Museum this evening (June 15 6PM) to discuss her research and her passion for history.

https://www.tarleton.edu/gordoncenter/

https://thegracemuseum.org/event/smiths-station-on-the-butterfield-lectures-dr-debbie-liles/

The 97th Meeting of the West Texas Historical Association was held in Abilene April 14-15 2023. In this episode I sat down with Gene Preuss and Scott Sosebee, host of the Talking Texas History Podcast (check it out) and the inspiration for the Cisco Compass. We discuss their podcast and guest, the film Giant, and other odds and ends.

April 20th 6-8 PM Eastland County Museum, Eastland, Texas, "A Visual History of Texas by the Cisco College Art Department. Come view the artwork and support the student's hard work...oh and Dr. Duane K. Hale and John Caraway will be the featured  speakers.

In this installment of Cisco Compass, lifelong Abilene resident Bill Minter discusses some Abilene history including his family's department store, his work with the Abilene Preservation League, the Abilene Heritage Square Project, and something we are both involved in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute/Texas Tech-Abilene.

If you are 50 or older and would like information about joining OLLI please feel free to contact me.

In the second episode of the Compass, I visit with my colleague, mentor, and friend maverick historian Dr. Duane K. Hale as we discuss his life as an educator, historian of Native American history, and of course, his quest for the Spider Rock treasure.

In the inaugural episode of the Compass, I visited with my old friend local and now international radio personality J.B. Cloud to discuss his career, Texas Red Dirt Music, and a little history of music and musicians in the Big Country.