The Frederic Hamilton building is a 2006 extension of the Denver Art Museum located within the Civic Center Cultural Complex.

The entrance and spider sculpture are on the eastern side of the building.

The northeastern prisms soar high above the entrance.

The northern prow of Libeskind's building points toward Gio Ponti's north building.

The south side of the Frederic Hamilton building sits in front of the high-rise Republic Building.

The prow of the building juts eastward.

Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. This book addresses all the major regions of Texas. Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative "Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will …

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

A guest artist and faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree and the Master of Music in Performance (MM) degree

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Wind symphony concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall

Symphony Orchestra performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

A teaching fellow recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Post-Reconstruction Texas in the mid-1870s was still relatively primitive, with communities isolated from each other in a largely open-range environment. Cattlemen owned herds of cattle in numerous counties while brand laws remained local. Friction arose when the nonresident stockmen attempted to gather their cattle, and mavericking was common. Law enforcement at the local level could cope with handling local drunks, collecting taxes, and attending the courts when in session, but when an outrageous crime occurred, or depredations in a community were at a level that severely taxed or overwhelmed the local sheriff, there was seldom any other recourse except a vigilante movement. With such a fragile hold on civilization in these communities, it is not difficult to understand how a “blood feud” could occur. During 1874 the Hoo Doo War erupted in the Texas Hill Country of Mason County, and for the remainder of the century violence and fear ruled the region in a rising tide of hatred and revenge. It is widely considered the most bitter feud in Texas history. Traditionally the feud is said to have begun with the intention of protecting the families, property and livelihood of the largely agrarian settlers in Mason and Llano counties. The …

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Symphonic Band performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Interview with Renee Shelton, a resident of Eastland County, regarding her experiences as a member of the African American community there. Shelton discusses starting school during the period of integration, discrimination she experienced, interracial dating, local community organizations, work at E. L. Graham Hospital and Russell-Newman, and prejudice experienced by her children in smaller Texas towns.