Attoyac
Writers’ Guild presents An Evening
with East Texas Author, Historian
Bob Bowman - March
10, 2010
Submitted by Andi Foster
Bob Bowman simply calls himself
a collector. He collects forgotten
towns, historic murders, East Texas
trivia, good ole’ boy expressions
and the “bests” of East
Texas history. Texas Monthly, in fact,
calls Bowman the best collector of
Texas bests.
Bowman and his wife Doris have written
44 books about East Texas history
and folklore and are working on four
more. Their books have won numerous
awards at the state and East Texas
levels. He also writes a history column
for about ninety East Texas newspapers
and is the great-great-great grandson
of an Alamo defender, Jesse B. Bowman.
Bowman is also a past president of
the East Texas Historical Association,
and a former member of the Texas Historical
Commission, the Texas Sesquicentennial
Commission and the Texas Capitol Centennial
Commission. Both Bob and Doris have
also served as chairs of the Texas
Council for the Humanities.
Bowman has also served as chairman
of the Lufkin Chamber of Commerce,
chairman of the Board of Trustees
for Angelina College at Lufkin, chairman
of the Angelina and Neches River Authority
and was a member of Governor Perry’s
2010 reelection committee.
Bowman and Doris own a marketing
and public relations company in Lufkin,
as well as Best of East Texas Publishing
Company. Currently, they are now working
on two new books, “Tomahawks
at Twilight,” a history of Indian
attacks in early East Texas, and “Ghosts
of the Pineywoods,” a collection
of true ghost stories in East Texas.
Discover more about Bowman at http://bob-bowman.com/.
Bowman will be guest speaker at the
Attoyac Writers’ Guild on Tues.,
March 16, 2010 beginning at 6:30 p.m.
at the Attoyac River Gallery, located
on Shelbyville Street, Downtown Square,
in Center, Texas.
The overall mission of the Attoyac
Writers' Guild is to provide a forum
of support and information to both
aspiring and experienced writers and
poets, to create a circle of assistance
to those interested with marketing
their literary works for publication,
and to establish a peer network for
writing improvements, discussions
and critiques. The Attoyac Writers’
Guild meets every third Tuesday evening
September through May. Details for
joining or participating in the writers’
guild can be obtained by contacting
Program Coordinators, Suzanne Walker,
936.591.1655 or Andi Foster, 936.590.0298,
or by visiting the guild’s blog
at http://attoyacwritersguild.blogspot.com/.
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