TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Calendar of EventsSociety-sponsored events (*) and other events of historical interestSummer 2015Tues., July 28,through Fri.,weeklyTues., Aug. 4The Sam Houston Memorial Museum at 1402 19 th Street in Huntsville conductssummer tours focusing on the life of Sam Houston Tuesday through Friday at10 a.m. and 2 p.m. through the end of August, 2015. The museum and visitors’center’s tour guides aim to educate visitors about the life and times of SamuelHouston, the first and third elected president of the Republic of Texas and the onlyman in U.S. history elected as the governor of two states (Tennessee and Texas).See http://samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com.The University of Texas Harry Ransom Center hosts the exhibition FrankReaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West from Tuesday, August 5through Sunday, November 29, 2015. Frank Reaugh (1860–1945) (pronounced“Ray”), one of the Southwest’s most distinguished artists, devoted his life tosketching and painting Western vistas while riding horseback with cattlemenduring some of Texas’s most historic roundups. See http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2015/reaugh.* Wed., Aug. 5 First Court of Appeals Senior Justice Terry Jennings and Journal ExecutiveEditor David A. Furlow will reprise their Society-Sponsored State Bar of Texas2015 Annual Meeting C.L.E. program, Magna Carta’s 800-Year Legacy, forthe Harris County Judicial Education Institute in San Antonio. A 40-minuteprogram, followed by a 5-minute question and answer session, will begin at 10a.m. and end at 10:45 a.m.Sat., Aug. 8Through Sept. 5The exhibition La Belle: The Ship That Changed History, re-opens in the BobBullock Museum of Texas History’s first floor Texas History Gallery. Thereassembled hull of the French ship La Belle that sank in 1686 in Matagorda Baywill remain open for viewing during the museum’s renovation of the first floorTexas History Gallery. See http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/la-belle/the-exhibit.The Houston Museum of Natural Science continues its Texas! The Exhibition.The presentation focuses on the unique roles that Texas has played as a Spanishcolony, as part of the Mexican Frontera, as an independent Republic, and as the121