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Join us this month as we host Curt Locklear, an incredible musician, author, storyteller, and joke-teller, as he uses his creative skills to tell us stories of Texas history, mixed with fun and interactive songs. There will be informative materials, banjo and guitar music to enjoy, jokes, history, and fellowship with the best Texans around. Invite your friends and neighbors and come be entertained, there will be no shortage of "picking and grinning". Speaker: Curt Locklear
Thursday, August 15th
Midway BBQ, 6025 Hwy Blvd, Katy, TX 77494
5:45 – prayer gathering (open to all)
6:30-8:00pm – meeting
No dues. No fees. No memberships. No RSVPs
About Curt Locklear:
Curt Locklear is an award-winning author, historian, teacher, education consultant, and public speaker. He has presented talks from Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Georgia to Minnesota to Maryland. He generally plays his guitar and banjo at his speaking engagements and enlivens the presentation with songs, stories and jokes. His banjo picking is featured at the beginning of the hit Texas PBS TV show, “The Daytripper.” He is a historian of elements of the Civil War west of the Mississippi – the Trans-Mississippi. He has presented to thousands.
He is related to the first wing-walker, Ormer Locklear. His father, Jack Locklear, trained a horse in the Kentucky Derby. His mother was a librarian. His heritage is Southern and Northern. Curt grew up in Brady, Texas, and in Austin, and now lives in The Woodlands, Texas.
As a youngster, he helped his father, who trained thoroughbred racehorses. Curt mucked horse stalls, loaded and unloaded hay bales, fed and hot walked the horses, herded cattle and raised sheep. He plucked chickens and stretched barbed wire fence. He rode his bike to school, played trombone in the Jr. High band, played Little League baseball and spent a lot of time playing scrub football and Civil War battles with toy soldiers.
After growing up, he got his Bachelor’s Degree in English and History and was a teacher and a coach in Texas. Later, he obtained his Master’s Degree and became a principal in school districts around Austin. He taught, at one time or another, grades four through twelve, directed one-act plays and UIL literary events, and taught chess to students every year he was a principal.
He has won short story awards, and his two published novels are rated 5 Stars – highest rating. ASUNDER, A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR and SPLINTERED (ASUNDER 2) which took first place in the 2018 International Laramie Awards. The just-released third novel, RECONCILED has been hailed as a masterpiece of storytelling. Watch the exciting book trailers and other videos on his website www.curtlocklearauthor.com and subscribe via email for the newsletter for updates, amazing stories and facts, contests and more.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Midway BBQ, 6025 HWY BLVD,Katy,TX,United States
