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Dulcimer Club 'Jams' In Jacksonville

ZANE LEWIS

Two art exhibitions for 12 graduating seniors from The University of Texas at Tyler are scheduled in March and April, UT Tyler publicity officials announced.

The first show is scheduled on Friday, March 28, with a reception scheduled for 6:30 p.m. that day. This exhibit will remain open until April 4.

Seniors showing art include Teresa Moralez, Julie Herrara, Kristen Akin-Henton, Jason Tanner Young, Paula McDermott, and Lisa Schmaltz. Their work will vary from ceramics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation.

The second show will open with a reception at 6:30 p.m. April 11 and will remain open until April 18. Seniors showing work in the second show will be Susan Pickel, Jane Graham, Robert Tobey, Jessica Benner, Sherry Sweeden, and Tang Po-Chun. Their work will vary as well from ceramics, painting, printmaking and collage.

Meadows Gallery is in the Braithwaite end of R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center on the UT Tyler campus.

Gallery Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more information, contact Ray Sikes, Meadows Gallery coordinator, at 903-566-7237 or 903-566-7250 or by e-mail rlsikes@uttyler.edu.

BOOK SIGNING

Local author Robert Reed is scheduled to sign copies of his new Tyler photographic history book, "Tyler,'' from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Hastings, 4015 S. Broadway Ave. in Tyler, officials announced.

The book includes 230 vintage photographs covering Tyler's history from founding through the 1960s. Reed is a lifelong resident of Tyler and the current president of the Smith County Historical Society. A majority of the photographs used in his book came from the archives of the Society.

DULCIMER CLUB

JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville Jammers Dulcimer Club will offer free lessons for beginners and intermediate players from 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Saturday in the Senior Citizens Building, 302 S. Bolton in Jacksonville, officials announced.

Visitors are welcome. For more information, call 903-561-3794.

CAMP FORD WEEKEND

The fourth Civil War Living History Weekend at Camp Ford is scheduled for Friday, March 28 through Sunday, March 30, publicity officials announced.

The weekend, which will feature re-enactors camping on site as well as blank cannon firing and rifle firing and other living history displays, will be held in conjunction with the annual Tyler Spring Flower and Azalea Trail.

Events will begin at 10 a.m. each day and conclude at 4 p.m.

Re-enactors from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana will take part.

A retirement of Confederate Flags Ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday and a church service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday.

For more information, call 903-725-6774.

BLUEGRASS SHOW

QUITMAN - A bluegrass show, featuring Buddy and Tena Wright and the Mack Smith Family from Chandler, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Carroll Green Civic Center in downtown Quitman, officials announced.

Admission is $7 for adults, with children under 12 admitted free.

The show is sponsored by the Dunahoe Insurance Agency in Mineola. For more information, call 903-852-6588 or 903-714-5248.

ART AUCTION

A benefit art exhibition and silent auction - "Bronze Reflections'' - is scheduled for 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at Gentry 2, located at 3200 Garden Valley Road in Tyler.

Part of the proceeds will benefit the Gentry Parkway Youth Center.

For more information, call 903-593-5630.

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