Victoria College’s Spring 2023 John W. Stormont Lecture Series continues Thursday, Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m. with “The Goliad Campaign” presented by Scott McMahon at the Museum of the Coastal Bend.
Victoria College’s Spring 2023 John W. Stormont Lecture Series will continue with “The Goliad Campaign” presented by Scott McMahon, director of Presidio La Bahia, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23 at VC’s Museum of the Coastal Bend.
McMahon will talk about the start of the Texas Revolution and the series of operations initiated by Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to quell the insurrection in Texas, known as the Goliad Campaign of 1835.
The series will continue on Thursday, March 2 at 5:30 p.m. with Dr. Leslie Bush presenting “Deeply Rooted: Native Texas Plants from the Pleistocene to Present,” with an emphasis on plants that grow in the Texas Coastal Bend. Bush is a paleoethnobotanist, an archaeologist who specializes in identifying bits of plants preserved on archaeological sites, usually in the form of charcoal and occasionally as waterlogged wood or other plant parts.
The series will conclude on Thursday, March 23 at 5:30 p.m. with “Chasing Billy the Kid” presented by historian Kurt House. House is the director of the Wild West History Association, a Western collector and a noted author of several books on Western America.
The Stormont lectures are free and open to the public.
The Museum of the Coastal Bend is located on Victoria College’s Main Campus at 2200 E. Red River Street in Victoria. The museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is “pay-what-you-want.”
For more information on the Museum of the Coastal Bend and its upcoming events, visit MuseumOfTheCoastalBend.org, email Museum@VictoriaCollege.edu or call (361) 582-2511.