Our next quarterly meeting will be held on June 3, 2021. Please join us for dinner (reservations required) at 6:00 o’clock PM before the 7:00 o’clock meeting at Highland Oaks Church of Christ, 10805 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, Texas 75238. There is no charge to attend. Please feel free to invite others to come with you.
Please call 972-260-9334 to make your dinner reservation. The dinner will be catered by Ernesto’s Mexican Restaurant and the cost is $15 per person.
We are delighted to announce that our speaker will be Mark Rice. He will be discussing, among other things, his latest book, “Dallas at Dawn, Rare Images and Forgotten Stories.”
Mr. Rice grew up in Dallas during the 1950s and ‘60s before attending college at the University of Texas at Arlington. After earning a degree in history, he entered the business world but maintained his passion for history. He has spent much of his career working among the buildings featured in this book. As a youngster, he developed an interest in historic downtown structures while accompanying his father, a court reporter, with an office in the Kirby Building. This background, along with a degree in history and long-time interests in photography and architecture led to the extensive research that went into the writing of this compelling story.
His first book, Downtown Dallas: Romantic Past, Modern Renaissance was published in 2007, for those interested in “the bankers, oil men, cotton brokers, merchants, and insurance titans who created the future and built the monumental structures that reflected their success, chronicling the historic buildings in the heart of the city.
A second book, Dallas at Dawn, was published in 2019, expanding the historical narrative to Oak Cliff, East Dallas, Highland Park, and North Dallas. Mark and his family still live in Dallas. Mark says “Where my previous book was confined to downtown Dallas and its great buildings, this new book also includes the early suburbs of East Dallas, South Dallas, Oak Lawn and Highland Park. This book also relates dozens of stories and anecdotes about historic events, prominent people and important structures in early Dallas.”
