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Brazos Past: Marking 75 years of Big Red

Celebrating Big Red’s 75th anniversary, an exhibit opening May 26 at the Dr Pepper Museum in downtown Waco will feature fun facts and numerous interactive areas for children and adults.

The Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute in downtown Waco will open a new exhibit May 26 featuring Big Red, the other famous beverage invented here.

Camp Hearne holds Radio and Remembrance Day

Heino Erichsen at age 18 before his capture in 1943, while he served in Germany’s Afrika Korps during World War II.

Heino Erichsen, 87, a former German prisoner of war in Texas during World War II, is scheduled to take part in Radio and Remembrance Day at Camp Hearne.

Lofty ambitions: Praetorian Building in downtown Waco entering 2nd century

The Praetorian Building in downtown Waco was built in 1913 by Hughes O’Rourke Construction of Dallas for the Modern Order of Praetorians, a fraternal organization.

Though not as famous as its towering neighbor - The ALICO - downtown Waco's Praetorian Building at Franklin Avenue and Sixth Street deserves to be celebrated in its own right.

Baylor exhibit examines historic Texas folklore writers

Texas regional writer Dorothy Scarborough was known to most readers as the author of 1925’s “The Wind,” her popular novel about an innocent teenager’s descent into madness as a result of moving from a comfortable life in the East to the isolation of West

Memorabilia including original transcriptions, documents and manuscripts is on display this month at The Texas Collection.

Victorian UFOs set tongues wagging across Texas

The 1898 theatrical offering “The Air Ship: A Musical Farce Comedy,” by J.M. Gaites, took as its inspiration for vaudeville entertainment the phantom aircraft sightings of the year before.

About 115 years ago, thousands across the U.S. claimed to see strange shapes in the sky with voices and music.

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Some answers to history mysteries of Brazos Past

Singer Wanda Rowton, of Waco, was one person Tribune-Herald readers identified as the woman performing in front of the Casablanca (“CB”) bandstand.

Our readers have pitched in to help a Waco History Project inquiry.

Biting into the past: Waco's frontier dentist first to sink his teeth here

Alexander Archer Beville was elected secretary of the Texas Dental Association in 1873, three years after becoming Waco’s first resident dentist.

In 1870, Alexander Archer Beville opened Waco’s first dental practice, which lasted more than two generations.

1940s US Census data release excites genealogy fans

A street scene of Austin Avenue in Waco in 1940. Texas was the sixth most populous state of the union, with about 6.4 million residents in that pre-war year.

Researchers are buzzing about the upcoming release of the 1940 U.S. Census.

Brazos Past: Can you identify these Waco history mysteries?

Members of an apparent Western swing ensemble smile back at the photographer in this photo belonging to Robert Gamboa. Waco’s local radio and early television scene featured bucolic entertainers. Judg

Can you help identify some of the people or places in these old photos?

Legacy of 1916 Waco lynching subject of award-winning film at Baylor

“Shadows of the Lynching Tree,” an award-winning film about historical racial violence and its modern legacy, will be screened for the public at Baylor.

Calvert Woman's Club festival to celebrate restoration of historic clubhouse

TOP: Founding members of the American Woman’s League visit their new chapter house in Calvert in October 1909. BOTTOM: It will reopen as the Katy Hamman-Stricker Women’s Heritage Center on March 24.

Part of Texas women's history might have been forgotten if the Calvert Woman's Club had not spent eight years and thousands of dollars to bring a century-old clubhouse back from decay.

Old-fashioned dance marathon to be staged at Waco VFW

Kim Shotz, senior vice president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6008 in Hewitt said there were people in the 1930s who went from town to town, doing dance marathons to earn a living.

A St. Patrick's Day dance marathon at VFW Post 6008 aims to raise money for a venue remodel to serve vets old and young.

Old railroader's lifetime collection to be sold in Waco

Former Union Pacific auditor Roy Lee Gay died Jan. 14 and left an impressive collection of railroad memorabilia which will be auctioned next weekend in Waco.

Roy Gay of Dialville spent a lifetime collecting railroad memorabilia.

Author to speak on architect of McLennan County Courthouse

Chris Meister is scheduled to make a free, public presentation on the craftsman of the courthouse at 5:30 p.m. March 8 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 515 Columbus Ave.

The author of “James Riely Gordon: His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture” will stop in Waco on his book tour.

Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning letters go digital via Baylor-Wellesley project

A handwritten original manuscript by Elizabeth Barrett Browning of the epic poem “Aurora Leigh” is held by Mariana Oller, Wellesley College associate curator of special collections, at the Massachuset

Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library says the collaboration with Wellesley helps bridge a gap in the library's extensive collection.

Brazos Past: Waco native earned fame as early Hollywood fashion designer

Travis Banton (1894-1958) cultivated high glamour while designing costumes for early Hollywood movies. His handiwork can be seen in more than 160 films during the industry’s golden age.

With the retro-sensation "The Artist" up for a slew of Academy Awards later this month, it should interest local readers that one of the most celebrated stylists of early cinema was a Waco native.

Black banker, legislator, sought to elevate African-Americans through busting poverty cycle

Robert Lloyd Smith’s legacy will be celebrated through March 20 at The Texas Collection at Baylor University, as curators present “A Homegrown Vision: Robert L. Smith and the Farmers Improvement Society,” an exhibit mounted in observance of Black History

Robert Lloyd Smith (1861-1942) came to Texas in the late 1800s and aspired to improve the lives of newly freed blacks in his adopted state.

Brazos Past: Mooreville church celebrating 100 years in present-day sanctuary

Mooreville United Methodist Church was formally founded — as Mooreville Methodist Episcopal Church South — in 1867.

Mooreville United Methodist Church, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Waco, will celebrate 100 years in its sanctuary Sunday.

Historic fashion exhibit open house this Sunday

“Collectors’ Choice,” a fashion review curated by Claire Masters of Historic Waco Foundation fame, will debut with a public open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Fort House Museum, 503 S. Fourth St. in Waco. Masters, who has amassed a personal collection of antique garments ...

Rebel aeronauts, including a Central Texan, took their fight to the skies

A period illustration of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe making a balloon ascension on a reconnaissance mission to Vienna, Va.

In Corsicana's Oakwood Cemetery lies a curious slab of stone - weathered by almost a century, lopsided and moss-covered - which depicts a hot air balloon on the tomb of a Confederate private named Adolphus E. Morse.

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