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November 28, 2009 The LBJ Museum of San Marcos presents a new exhibit LBJ Country: Through the Camera Lens of Norman Dietel that focuses on the photography of long-time publisher and managing editor of the Fredericksburg Radio Post. This collection contains about 1,200 photographic prints and negatives of mostly Lyndon Johnson in the Texas … |
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Pat Murdock November 20, 2009 LBJ Museum of San Marcos SAN MARCOS – The special opening of an exhibit entitled “LBJ Country: Through the Camera Lens of Norman Dietel” scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Museum of San Marcos will also provide an opportunity to say good … |
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September 16, 2009 The Diez Y Seis opening of the traveling A Tejano Son of Texas exhibit at the LBJ Museum of San Marcos kicked off the awareness and celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month here in San Marcos. The exhibit comes to us from San Antonio-based TexasTejano.com (Rudi R. Rodriguez, President/Founder), a firm … |
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September 15, 2009 A near-record group accepted a proclamation declaring Hispanic Heritage Month at the Sept. 15, 2009, Hays County Commissioners Court meeting. Left to right are (first row) Ofelia Vasquez-Philo of the Hays County Historical Commission, Theresa Schwartz of the LBJ Museum of San Marcos Board of Directors, “Poly” Rodriguez descendent Becky Sierra, descendent … |
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Pat Murdock August 20, 2009 LBJ Museum of San Marcos SAN MARCOS – The Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum of San Marcos will celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with a reception featuring mariachi music to herald the public opening of a visiting exhibit titled “A Tejano Son of Texas.” The opening is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. … |
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August 7, 2009 The LBJ Museum of San Marcos held its first ever “60s Night at the Museum” event on Friday evening. We had a healthy turnout and favorable compliments from our diverse audience of Texas State University alumni, business and community leaders, university students, and local residents who either remember the Sixties or wanted … |
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June 13, 2009 The LBJ Museum of San Marcos held it annual golf fundraiser for the first time in San Marcos. Pat Murdock, Board President, praised the move of the tournament from Woodcreek to Quail Creek Country Club and applauded the efforts of Vice President Steve Searle, who served as the tournament’s director. We had … |
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Pat Murdock – May 24, 2009 (512) 353-1943 pmurdock@centurytel.net LBJ Museum of San Marcos SAN MARCOS – “Show time” for a multi-media exhibit that resulted from the collaborative efforts of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum of San Marcos and Texas State University-San Marcos has been extended. The exhibit, funded in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, … |
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May 24, 2009 Two artists with the San Marcos Art League currently have two paintings and one photograph on display at the LBJ Museum. Incoming President Lisa Jasak has a watercolor entitled Dreamy Haze and a watercolor and pastel called The Beckoning Tree. League member Judith Nicholls’ photograph entitled Cholla depicts a cactus … |
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March 5, 2009 Following his freshman year at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University-San Marcos), Lyndon Johnson accepted a teaching position in a small South Texas town at a school for Mexican American grade-school children. Our new rotating exhibit, Lyndon B. Johnson in Cotulla, 1928-1929: The Impact of Welhausen School on … |
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Pat Murdock March 1, 2009 LBJ Museum of San Marcos SAN MARCOS – In 1928, a young Lyndon Baines Johnson interrupted his studies at Southwest Texas State Teachers College to accept a fulltime teaching position in the South Texas town of Cotulla. Although his motivation was to earn enough money so he could finish … |
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April 14, 2009 The President’s two daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb, came to Texas State University-San Marcos to serve as guest speakers for the final event of the LBJ Centennial, commemorating Lyndon Johnson’s 100th Birthday. The daughters brought their unique vantage point to share stories and discuss how the events of the … |
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January 14, 2009 The Texas Historical Commission (THC), in association with the City of San Marcos and the Texas State University, held the 2009 Annual CLG/VIP Preservation Symposium, January 14–15, in San Marcos, Texas. Preservation and the Balanced Community was the theme for this year’s symposium held at Taylor Murphy Hall for preservationists, historians, … |
