WTAMU Library and Texas Plains Trail Region
Name:
WTAMU Library and Texas Plains Trail Region
Date:
November 16, 2014
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
Event Description:
WTAMU Library and the Texas Plains Trail Region to co-host book talk and signing for memoir/history “The Rim to Rim Road” with WT staffer Vicki Hamblen Sun., Nov. 16
Vicki Hamblen of Canyon will sign copies of the newly republished book for which she has provided a new historical introduction, “The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon,” Sun., Nov. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cornette Library, on 26th St. on the WTAMU campus, (806) 651-2215.
Vicki Hamblen is the granddaughter of Eutha Hamblen (whose book “Rim to Rim,” the story of the first road built by her father-in-law across Palo Duro Canyon in eastern Armstrong County, was written as a creative writing thesis at West Texas State University and published in 1971) worked with the Texas Plains Trail Region organization to update the original book, long out of print. Along with her new introduction, which provides historical context and bibliographical information, Vicki Hamblen has added a family tree, and index, and never-before-published photographs. The book is a valuable resource for local history, including recollections of long-ago residents of Armstrong County and the Wayside community in addition to lifeways and customs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the southern Panhandle of Texas.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Books are also available at Buffalo Book Store on 4th Ave. in Canyon and at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park Visitor Center.
The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon
ISBN 978-0-9906429-0-9 (trade paperback)
Published by Texas Plains Trail Books
August 2014
$16.95 plus tax
The Texas Plains Trail Region (TPTR), an award-winning heritage tourism initiative of the Texas Historical Commission, is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing heritage tourism to the 52 counties of the Texas Plains and Panhandle.
For event information, book sales, orhi-resolution art and photographs, call Barbara Brannon, TPTR, 806.747.1997 (mobile 806.252.6544).
For author interviews, contact Vicki Hamblen at vhamblen@mail.wtamu.edu
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Vicki Hamblen of Canyon will sign copies of the newly republished book for which she has provided a new historical introduction, “The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon,” Sun., Nov. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cornette Library, on 26th St. on the WTAMU campus, (806) 651-2215.
Vicki Hamblen is the granddaughter of Eutha Hamblen (whose book “Rim to Rim,” the story of the first road built by her father-in-law across Palo Duro Canyon in eastern Armstrong County, was written as a creative writing thesis at West Texas State University and published in 1971) worked with the Texas Plains Trail Region organization to update the original book, long out of print. Along with her new introduction, which provides historical context and bibliographical information, Vicki Hamblen has added a family tree, and index, and never-before-published photographs. The book is a valuable resource for local history, including recollections of long-ago residents of Armstrong County and the Wayside community in addition to lifeways and customs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the southern Panhandle of Texas.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Books are also available at Buffalo Book Store on 4th Ave. in Canyon and at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park Visitor Center.
The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro CanyonISBN 978-0-9906429-0-9 (trade paperback)
Published by Texas Plains Trail Books
August 2014
$16.95 plus tax
The Texas Plains Trail Region (TPTR), an award-winning heritage tourism initiative of the Texas Historical Commission, is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing heritage tourism to the 52 counties of the Texas Plains and Panhandle.
For event information, book sales, orhi-resolution art and photographs, call Barbara Brannon, TPTR, 806.747.1997 (mobile 806.252.6544).
For author interviews, contact Vicki Hamblen at vhamblen@mail.wtamu.edu
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