Volume 53: 2017

In this issue, Joe W. Specht explores the music inspired by the Southeast Texas oil industry. Often expressing working-class angst, local blues and folk artists, country and rock superstars reflected the good times and bad times that characterized the boom-and-bust oil market. Ken Poston revisits the 1947 Texas City disaster and focuses on how its impact reached Southeast Texans. Lamar University history major Rebecca Phillips searches through old year books and finds glimpses of 1920s culture at South Park Junior College. For this volume’s "Biographical Notes," Matthew Pelz examines the civic and business contributions of George W. Grover of Galveston, and for "Primary Sources," Charlotte A. Holliman provides a sampling of the treasure trove that is the Rolfe and Gary Christopher Negative Collection.

Spring Meeting 2018

Texas Gulf Historical Society spring meeting set for Tuesday, April 17, 7:00 pm at the McFaddin-Ward Visitor Center. Charlotte A. Holliman of Special Collections and Archives, Mary and John Gray Library, Lamar University will speak on "Images in Time: The Rolfe and Gary Christopher Negatives Collection." Society members will be able to pick up their copy The Record volume 53 which features a photographic sampling from the Christopher Collection

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