Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Bob Camblin (1928-2010) was an artist, first and foremost. He earned his BFA and MFA degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute. His studies were followed by a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him a year’s stay in Italy. Returning to the USA, he held teaching positions at the Ringling Museum, the University of Illinois, Detroit Mercy, and the University of Utah before moving to Houston in 1967 to teach at Rice’s new art department. He was active in Houston during the late 1960s through the 1980s, collaborating with Earl Staley and Joe Tate on many projects, including “happenings” on the beach in Galveston. His career led him to creative undertakings all over the world. Throughout his lifetime he constantly experimented with various art media. He remained open to new ideas and new techniques until his death in Louisiana in 2010. Camblin was a central figure in the period of artistic fermentation in Houston that is now beginning to receive increasing critical attention. He chose Rowland to be his historian while still at Rice, and her insights into him are based on many personal letters and conversations. In addition, she is a trained art historian and …

Bernard A. Booker, wry old Maine codger and unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, is the subject of Booker’s Point, an oral history-inspired portrait-in-verse. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, the collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England and the pleasures of a good story.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Buddy De Franco on April 21, 1987 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Buddy DeFranco, clarinet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Buddy De Franco on April 21, 1987 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Buddy DeFranco, clarinet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don José María Amador, a former “Forty-Niner” during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios’ goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests. Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft’s writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies. “This book presents a very convincing and interesting narrative about Mexican California. Its frankness and honesty are refreshing.”–Richard Griswold del Castillo, San Diego State University

A selection of letters written to the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper from 1870-1871 about steamboat travel on the Red River in 1838-1841. W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of character and incident, and his profiles of persons, including three signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reflect years of acquaintance. The beauty of his writing ranks this among the best of the reminiscences that were written as the steamboat era was declining. “Bagur is an expert on the Red River in the nineteenth century, and it shows in this work. Informative and entertaining.” —Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell, author of Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State “This will rank as a great assistance to researchers if anyone wants to attack history of the Red River again. Some of his in-depth research was fabulous.”—Skipper Steely, author of Red River Pioneers

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clark Terry on April 20, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clark Terry, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clark Terry on April 20, 1982 at 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clark Terry, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clifford Jordan on April 10, 1990 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clifford Jordan on April 10, 1990 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Conte Candoli on April 7, 1987 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Conte Candoli, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Conte Candoli on April 7, 1987 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Conte Candoli, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Diane Reeves on April 23, 1985 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture, master class, and performance by Diane Reeves, vocals, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Diane Reeves on April 23, 1985 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture, master class, and performance by Diane Reeves, vocals, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Dick Hyman on April 17, 1990 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Dick Hyman, piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Dick Hyman on April 17, 1990 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Dick Hyman, piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.

“There are some poets we admire for a mastery that allows them to tell a story, express an epiphany, form a conclusion, all gracefully and even memorably— yet language in some way remains external to them. But there are other poets in whom language seems to arise spontaneously, fulfilling a design in which the poet’s intention feels secondary. Books by these poets we read with a gathering sense of excitement and recognition at the linguistic web being drawn deliberately tighter around a nucleus of human experience that is both familiar and completely new, until at last it seems no phrase is misplaced and no word lacks its resonance with what has come before. Such a book is Austin Segrest’s Door to Remain.”— Karl Kirchwey, author of Poems of Rome and judge

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Eddie Daniels on April 8, 1986 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Eddie Daniels, clarinet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Eddie Daniels on April 8, 1986 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Eddie Daniels, clarinet, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Elvin Jones on April 24, 1984 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Elvin Jones, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Elvin Jones on April 24, 1984 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Elvin Jones, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Emily Remler on April 9, 1985 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Emily Remler, guitar, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Emily Remler on April 9, 1985 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Emily Remler, guitar, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Ensemble concert performed at UNT School of Music Concert Hall.