Fielder Museum has a new exhibit opening on May 25—Planes, Trains, & Automobiles takes a fun and fascinating look at the history of transportation in Arlington.

The Texas Author Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington Public Library. Club coordinators are O. K. Carter (AHS) and Mark Dellenbaugh (APL). The club meets on third Thursdays, 6:30 PM, at the Fielder Museum. For questions/additional info, email texasauthorbookclub@gmail.com.

During a writing career that spanned an astonishing eight decades, Dan Jenkins wrote 24 books, including Semi-Tough, which five years later became a movie starring Burt Reynolds as Billy Clyde Puckett.

Jenkins' book-length works of non-fiction include His Ownself: A Semi-Tough Memoir and ten other titles. His fiction novels include Baja Oklahoma, You Gotta Play Hurt, and The Reunion at Herb's Café (his last book), which is a yarn that reunites many characters from his previous books.

O. K. Carter, Arlington's favorite author, historian, legendary local raconteur, and friend, will kick off the Fielder Museum's Planes, Trains, & Automobiles exhibit with an engaging history of Transportation in Arlington.

O. K.'s seminal book Caddos, Cotton & Cowboys: Essays on Arlington, Texas, now in its fifth edition, is the most comprehensive history in print of America's Largest Mid City. The book illustrates how, from its earliest days, Arlington's growth has been tied to, and nourished by, the highways, railroads, and flight paths criss-crossing and defining its city limits.

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The Texas Author Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington Public Library. Club coordinators are O. K. Carter (AHS) and Mark Dellenbaugh (APL). The club meets on third Thursdays, 6:30 PM, at the Fielder Museum. For questions/additional info, email texasauthorbookclub@gmail.com.

Erik Larson's first book of narrative nonfiction, Isaac's Storm, about the devastating hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas in 1900, won the American Meteorological Society's prestigious Louis J. Battan Author's Award. The Washington Post called it the "Jaws of hurricane yarns." Larson is not a native Texan, although writing such a gripping account of one of the Lone Star State's (and the nation's) greatest disasters may qualify him; Isaac's Storm is a hard one to put down once you start reading.

Jock Bethune is best known as the "Voice of American Airlines", having recorded several thousand hours of narration for training pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and other personnel. JoAnn Moore is a retired AA flight attendant who has donated her uniforms from the 1970s until her retirement after a half-century of service with the airline.

Together, Jock and JoAnn possess deep, rich knowledge of the history of American Airlines, along with personal recollections of their own experiences in and under the skies of DFW and far beyond. Join us at Fielder Museum with Jock and JoAnn as we embark on an engaging flight of history and memories.

The Texas Author Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington Public Library. Club coordinators are O. K. Carter (AHS) and Mark Dellenbaugh (APL). The club meets on third Thursdays, 6:30 PM, at the Fielder Museum. For questions/additional info, email texasauthorbookclub@gmail.com.

Sandra Brown, Arlington's most successful author, has been living her American dream as a #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 70 novels (and ober 70 million copies sold). In Two Alone, when their plane crashes in the remote reaches of the Northwest Territories, confident businesswoman Rusty Carlson finds herself hurt and alone with a man she can't stand to be around. Vietnam vet Cooper Landry holds a deep-rooted grudge against beautiful women, but he's survived far worse and he'll be damned if he lets them both die in the wilderness. The ex-soldier's training has prepared him with the skills to defend against the predators of the deep woods—both animal and human—but that's not all that awaits the couple. What Rusty and Cooper couldn't have expected is their shared desire for more than just survival.