The Texas Historical Commission in support of the Sam Bell Maxey House Museum in Paris Texas is funding the museum’s second annual appreciation banquet to honor employees and volunteers. The banquet will be April 9 at Celebrate It, in Paris Texas. Entertainment will be provided by Wildwood Dean, Fannin, County, Red River historian, who has been chosen by the museum staff to present his popular Red River Journeys PowerPoint slide show. Red River Journeys began as the opening presentation for a Smithsonian exhibit (Early American Journeys) sponsored by ThreeValleyMuseum in Durant, Oklahoma.My PowerPoint presentation has evolved into a polished one-hour history book reestablishing Red River’s prominence as one of America’s great rivers.We are so lucky to have her border our North Texas counties. The Program contains pictures; illustrations and little know facts from the Freeman & Custis Red River Exploration and from Dunbar & Sibley's Red River travels. It has interesting facts about Captain Shreve’s removal of the Great Raft and the steamboat travel that resulted; including the steamboat Heroine story. Full accounts of WWII, PT Landing Craft coming up Red River and the Roy Rogers trip down Red River are highlights of the presentation. My favorite part is the Old Uncle Wallace story, and ... my life-long Red River journey.”
