DCPA Quarterly Meeting, 12/4/2021 (Saturday morning).
This is a reminder of our next meeting on December 4th, 2021. Please join us for breakfast at 9:00 A.M. before the 10:00 AM meeting at Highland Oaks Church of Christ, 10805 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, Texas 75238.
Please call 972-260-9334 to make your breakfast reservation. The cost is $15.
Our next speaker will be author Rusty Williams. Rusty Williams tells about history through the true stories of the people who lived it. He takes a darkly humorous look at turn-of-the-twentieth-century city life when he speaks about Deadly Dallas: A History of Unfortunate Incidents and Grisly Fatalities (The History Press, 2021)
“Spring of 1904. A runaway team of horses critically injures three pedestrians attempting to cross Akard Str5eet. The mayor orders a roundup of unlicensed dogs due to a city-wide rabies outbreak. An inexperienced automobile drives jumps the curb and drives into the lobby of the St. George Hotel. Embers from a wood cooking stove transform a sleeping house into a funeral pyre.
Just another deadly day in Dallas.
Dynamite, diphtheria, plummeting airships, rampaging livestock. Dallas was dangerous place in its formative years.”
Rusty is also the author of Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press, 2016), My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky, 2011), and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Turner, 2010). He regularly speaks to historical societies, book groups, and cultural gatherings. Rusty contributes articles to historical magazines and journals.
Please come join us for exciting tales of Dallas’ past on December 4th, 2021.
