Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) degree.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Guest artist recital presented at the UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center Winspear Hall.

Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates—all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an exceptional region. The Big Thicket and its National Preserve contain plants and animals from deserts and swamps and ecosystems in between, all together in one amazing Biological Crossroad. The fifteen tours included with maps will take you through them all. Visitors curious about a legendary area will find this book an essential companion in their cars. Libraries will use the book as a reference to locate information on ghost towns, historic events, and National Preserve features. “A result of a prodigious amount of local research as well as a great deal of driving and tramping around, this book might end up as a classic.”—Thad Sitton, author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley

In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another baker’s dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these are more tales of murder, mayhem, and dirty work from all branches of local law enforcement: police, sheriff’s deputies, constables, and special officers, just like in Volume 1. This era was, if anything, bloodier than the preceding era of the first volume. Fort Worth experienced a race riot, two lynchings, and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army while Camp Bowie was operating. Bushwhacking (such as happened to Peter Howard in 1915) and assassinations (such as happened to Jeff Couch in 1920) replaced blood feuds and old-fashioned shootouts as leading causes of death among lawmen. Violence was not confined to the streets either; a Police Commissioner was gunned down in his city hall office in 1917. Even the new category of “vehicular homicide” claimed a lawman’s life.

Chamber Music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall

Song and chamber music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

Recording of a performance of "Opera's Greatest Hits: A Gala Concert" at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Symphonic Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Stan Kenton Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Percussion concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall

Concert presented at Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.

Senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) degree.

Interview with Tanya Kiboko, an immigrant to Texas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kiboko discusses her education, her family, Congolese society, languages, learning English, culture shock, food, markets, attending Wiley College, her husband, differences in structure between Western and Congolese families, and reflections on life.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.