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Friends,
Most people-Texans especially-wouldn't enjoy the experience of being snowed in. How you feel about it, though, r
on where you are when it happens.
Many years ago, a blizzard swept in while I was visiting George Washington's Mount Vernon as part of a small working
educators and historians. For the next couple of days, with the estate closed to the public, I enjoyed the intimacy of w
gorgeous, snow-covered grounds, with nothing to do but meditate on history.
That experience returned to my mind recently when I began a "grand tour" of the THC's historic sites across the great
Texas. Walking these sites with passionate and dedicated archeologists, interpreters, and preservationists, I was remind(
again of history's power to fire our imagination, and to inspire us to do good in the world. No one understands this be
the people who spend their days at these sites, working to transfer their knowledge and enthusiasm to visitors young a
We begin 2024 with gratitude to retiring THC Executive Director Mark Wolfe, who has guided the agency through o
of extraordinary growth. His hard work, under the oversight of our Chairman John L. Nau, III and his volunteer com
has positioned the THC not just to preserve our history, but to impact meaningfully the lives of everyday Texans. Mor
anyone else, though, it's the efforts of the agency's more than 300 employees that make the real stories of real places co
Read on to explore just a few of those stories in this issue of The Medallion.
Sincerely,
Edward G. Lengel, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Texas Historical Commission
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