Rural Showcase
Over the next year, seven Texas cities will host a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition that examines the evolution of small towns as the American population moved into urban areas over the past 125 years.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America debuts August 24 in San Augustine. After six weeks in deep East Texas, the exhibition will move on to weekslong stays in Clifton, Brenham, Rockport, Buffalo Gap and San Elizario. The tour through Texas will end in Bandera on August 2, 2025.
To learn more, visit museumonmainstreet.org.
Scratch That
Don’t forget to celebrate World Mosquito Day on August 20. Wait, maybe not.
A Texan on the High Court
Tom C. Clark became the first Texan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court 75 years ago. Clark, born in Dallas, had been the U.S. attorney general when President Harry S. Truman nominated him to the high court.
Clark was sworn in August 24, 1949. He supported desegregation and voted with the majority in 1950’s Sweatt v. Painter, which ended segregation at the University of Texas law school, and in 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which put an end to the “separate but equal” doctrine.
