Meet the Authors & Book Signing Reception
What: The Board of Directors of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation is pleased to announce the release of The Long Shadow: The Lutcher-Stark Lumber Dynasty, a 2016 publication of the University of Texas Press, that presents a history of three exceptional generations of Texans whose progenitor, a Pennsylvania butcher-turned-lumberman named Henry Jacob Lutcher, came to Southeast Texas in 1877 in search of new timber sources.
Who: Ellen Walker Rienstra and Jo Ann Stiles authored The Long Shadow: The Lutcher-Stark Lumber Dynasty. Ellen Walker Rienstra is a historian and author currently contracted by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation in Orange, Texas. She has coauthored several books, including A Pride of Kin and Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
Jo Ann Stiles taught in Lamar University’s history department for more than three decades before retiring as an associate professor emeritus. She has worked as an independent author and researcher, coauthoring Giant Under the Hill and other projects.
Where: Lutcher Theater, 707 Main, Orange, Texas.
When: Tuesday, September 20, 2016.
Books will be available for purchase at 5:30 p.m.
Remarks by the authors at 6:30 p.m.
Reception & Book Signing Immediately Following Remarks
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