Port Aransas Museum to host talk on cattle industry’s past

Do you know why Packery Channel is so-named? You may find out Monday, Feb. 8.

Anita Eisenhauer, chairman of the Nueces County Historical Commission, will discuss “The Texas Cattle Industry and the Rise of the Packeries in the Coastal Bend,” in her talk on Monday at the Port Aransas Museum, 408 Brundrett St., at Alister St.

Eisenhauer’s talk is part of the ongoing series of lectures at the museum.

The lectures are funded in part by a mini-grant of $1,398 recently awarded to the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The public is invited to attend all of the free lectures. Two will be held each month.

A wine and cheese mixer at 7 p.m. will precede each lecture. The lectures will begin at 8 p.m. in the Port Aransas Community Center, adjacent to the museum.

The next lecture in the series will be on Monday, Feb. 22, when Dr. William McWhorter of the WW II Project for the Texas Historical Commission will speak.

For more information call the museum at 749-3800.