Taste • Tour • Explore
Luncheon featuring Jenna Bush Hager, Wednesday, April 11 at Brook Hollow Golf Club
Historic Home Tour on Saturday, April 14
Classic and Antique Car Show on Saturday, April 21
The Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society’s February Education Program featured William Murchison speaking on Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man. The event was graciously hosted by Gigi and Roy Salley in their lovely Park Cities home.
Lucinda Buford, PCHPS president, welcomed the crowd and thanked the hosts, saying that as a special introduction, Robby Skinner, who is a PCHPS board member and was the builder who did the remodel of the Salley home, would say a few words about the construction. Also present was Wilson Fuqua, the architect on the project.
After a wonderful presentation, Murchison presented his review, along with an entertaining and informative slideshow about the book of Frank Reaugh’s life which was published in The Dallas Morning News recently. Reaugh was an artist, educator, inventor and naturalist. He was also one of the Southwest’s earliest and most distinguished artists, acknowledged as the “Dean of Texas Artists.” Murchison is a former Dallas Morning News journalist and former Baylor University journalism professor, now a full-time author and syndicated columnist.
Everyone is invited to join the Society’s Spring Taste • Tour • Explore events, which begins on Wednesday, April 11 with the Distinguished Speaker Luncheon featuring Jenna Bush Hager as the speaker, chaired by Tish Key at the Brook Hollow Golf Club. Gail and R. Gerald Turner, president of SMU, are honorary chairs.
Hager is a contributing correspondent on NBC’s Today show and an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine. She is also the author of The New York Times best seller Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, which she wrote after traveling to Latin American in 2006 as an intern with UNICEF. Hager is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
Jana Paul, chair of the Historic Home Tour, has also announced the homes on the tour on Saturday, April 14. They are 3925 Potomac Avenue, 75205; 3928 University, 75205; 3504 Hanover, 75225; 4516 North Versailles Avenue, 75205 and 3712 Maplewood, 75205.
Polly and Dan McKeithen are chairing the Classic and Antique Car Show happening on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Burleson Park, 3000 University Boulevard, by Southern Methodist University. It is open to the public at no charge.
Tickets for the luncheon are on sale now and start at $150 each. Patron single seating starts at $300 each and include a Patron Party invitation. Other levels include more benefits. Sponsorships and table underwriting are available beginning at $1,500 up to $10,000. Check the website for updates: http://www.pchps.org or email mailto:info@pchps.org for sponsorship forms.
Advance tickets for the Saturday, April 14 Historic Home Tour are available online at www.pchps.org and at these Tom Thumb stores: Snider Plaza, Preston Center, Greenville/Lovers Lane, Inwood/University, Lincoln Center. For more information, call the PCHPS office (214) 582-0021.
PCHPS mission is to preserve and promote the history, architecture, aesthetics and cultural traditions of the Park Cities. Proceeds of the fundraisers will be used to help preserve and maintain the Park Cities House at Dallas Heritage Village, support the new PCHPS archives at the University Park Library, fund the Society’s landmarking initiatives and award scholarships to Highland Park High School graduating seniors planning to study architecture, history or preservation. Membership in PCHPS is open to the public. For more information visit http://www.pchps.org
Photos by Rob Wythe/Gittings.