Lyndon Olson was featured on the February 26th episode ("The Bull of the Brazos") of the KUT Austin podcast The Disconnect: Power, Politics, and the Texas Blackout. The podcast can be heard on Spotify or through its page on NPR.org. 

Kent Calder (pictured far right) traveled to Brady earlier this month for the Heart of Texas Country Music Festival. He played a show with Bill and Bobbie Malone (also pictured) focused on their book about the songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, which Calder published at University of Oklahoma Press. 

In March, Talmage Boston discussed his book How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents at a program at The Miller Center at the University of Virginia, in a conversation moderated by presidential historian Marc Selverstone. You can watch the program online here.

Tom Palaima has had four poems published recently - three on the Greek website Culture Book and one in The Dylan Review, an open access journal of Bob Dylan studies.

On March 6, Humanities Texas hosted a Dallas screening of the documentary film Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter in partnership with The Sixth Floor Museum, KERA, and the SMU Center for Presidential History. Liz Carpenter was a member of the Society, inducted in 1979, and Humanities Texas' director, Eric Lupfer is also a member.

In February, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th Anniversary “Live from New York”, but Texas and Stephen Enniss had a surprising and more lasting impact by attracting the permanent archives of the show to the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Read this Texas Monthly story and what Enniss had to say about the acquisition. Harry Ransom was also a Society member, inducted in 1955.

Mel Klein of Corpus Christi passed away February 12th. Mr. Klein was founder of Melvyn N. Klein Interests, an attorney, an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a life member of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, and wrote guest columns in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Mr. Klein was inducted into the Society in 1997 and was still an active member when he died. His obituary in the Caller-Times can be read here. 

Tom Palaima was featured in an Athenaeum Review podcast on war and the truth, which can be heard here. He also wishes all a happy new year through this poem.

In January, Liz Rogers went to Antigua and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala with a friend, where she tried to buy up all the textiles on the market. She journeyed on solo to Panama, where she saw the Canal, Casco Viejo, the Frank Gehry Biomuseo, and went to Bocas del Toro, Boquete, and El Valle de Anton.  Liz had never been to either country and enjoyed them both immensely.