TCHC: Year End Activity Report for 2009
abilenet February 17th, 2010
2008 was a good year and we had lots of interesting projects working namely two that we carried over to 2009:
First Exploratory Oil Well In Taylor County – David Morris & Jay Moore
Research early Abilene History of Will Stith and sister Mrs. Frances Curtis.
Our Report was submitted to the State and we received a letter stating we had 2009 Certified Local Government award.
We do not meet as a group in January, except at the Archives. 2009 was a bit different in that one of our Commission Members, Jay Moore, was Guest Columnist for the Abilene Reporter News, on January 25th, 2009. The headline read:
“HISTORIC TROLLEY TRACKS TORN UP” and the story began
“Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, a small part of Abilene history was bulldozed up loaded on a dump truck and hauled away”. Out of this grew Jay Moore’s “HISTORY IN PLAIN SIGHT SERIES”. Three DVDs “Bankhead Highway”, “Streets of Abilene”. Continue Reading »