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The second annual Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair was a great success! Dozens of people came to the Byrne-Reed House, some for the first time, to visit with twenty-seven authors and purchase signed copies of their latest books. We sold 380 books and will be donating $1,000 each to two small-town Texas libraries, the Peñitas Public Library in Peñitas and the Smith-Welch Memorial Library in Hearne. Click here for a list of authors and their books—they make great holiday gifts.

2010 Holiday Book Fair: A Great Success! : Slideshow
  1.  <i>2010 Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair</i>
  1. Thumbnail of:  <i>2010 Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair</i>
  2. Thumbnail of:  <I>Mike Gillette's sleigh.</i>
  3. Thumbnail of:  <i>Humanities Texas board member Shirlene Bridgewater brought some of her students from Marble Falls High School. Authors in this photo: S. C. Gwynne (far left), John Phillip Santos (third from right), and Alison Macor (far right).</i>
  4. Thumbnail of:  <i>Treats baked by Humanities Texas staff.</i>
  5. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author H. W. Brands with Mary Dauterman.</i>
  6. Thumbnail of:  <i>Samantha Gordon (left) and Ana Villarreal visit with authors Emilio Zamora and Monica Perales. Perales is a board member.</i>
2010 Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair
2010 Holiday Book Fair: A Great Success! : Thumbnails
  1. Thumbnail of:  <i>2010 Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair</i>
  2. Thumbnail of:  <I>Mike Gillette's sleigh.</i>
  3. Thumbnail of:  <i>Humanities Texas board member Shirlene Bridgewater brought some of her students from Marble Falls High School. Authors in this photo: S. C. Gwynne (far left), John Phillip Santos (third from right), and Alison Macor (far right).</i>
  4. Thumbnail of:  <i>Treats baked by Humanities Texas staff.</i>
  5. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author H. W. Brands with Mary Dauterman.</i>
  6. Thumbnail of:  <i>Samantha Gordon (left) and Ana Villarreal visit with authors Emilio Zamora and Monica Perales. Perales is a board member.</i>
  7. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Shirlene Bridgewater (left) and Debra Monroe. Bridgewater is a board member.</i>
  8. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Tiffany Gill and H. W. Brands.</i>
  9. Thumbnail of:  <i>Humanities Texas board members Shirlene Bridgewater and Mickey Klein with one of Bridgewater's students.</i>
  10. Thumbnail of:  <i>Board member Shirlene Bridgewater and her students on the grand staircase of the Byrne-Reed House.</i>
  11. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author Diana Welch visits with two Marble Falls High School students.</i>
  12. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author Don Carleton signs a book.</i>
  13. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Light Cummins (a former board member, left), and Don Carleton.</i>
  14. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author Jacqueline Kelly signs a book for Hunter James.</i>
  15. Thumbnail of:  <i>Executive Director Mike Gillette with author and Humanities Texas Board Chair Mary L. Volcansek.</i>
  16. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Emily Fox Gordon (left) and Debra Monroe.</i>
  17. Thumbnail of:  <i>Jeanne Klein (left) and LeAnn Gillette at the entrance to the Byrne-Reed House.</i>
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  19. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors James Haley and S. C. Gwynne.</i>
  20. Thumbnail of:  <i>Jeanne Klein and Humanities Texas staff member Julia Aguilar.</i>
  21. Thumbnail of:  <i>Humanities Texas staff members Liz Bohman Barger and Meghan Chaney.</i>
  22. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author Steven Weinberg and Executive Director Mike Gillette.</i>
  23. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Naomi Shihab Nye, Bill Wittliff, and Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt.</i>
  24. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors and guests in the Julius and Suzan Glickman Room.</i>
  25. Thumbnail of:  <i>Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas director of grants and education, gets a book signed by Lucas A. Powe, Jr.</i>
  26. Thumbnail of:  <i>Board members Mickey Klein and Jesús F. de la Teja shake hands. Lucas A. Powe, Jr. and board member Mary L. Volcansek are in the background.</i>
  27. Thumbnail of:  <i>Author John Phillip Santos signs a book for Humanities Texas Deputy Director Yvonne Doerr González.</i>
  28. Thumbnail of:  <i>Matt Perkins, board member and author Monica Perales, and a friend on the south terrace.</i>
  29. Thumbnail of:  <i>Monica Perales signs a book for Mickey Klein. Both are board members.</i>
  30. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Naomi Shihab Nye (center) and Bill Wittliff.</i>
  31. Thumbnail of:  <i>Diana Welch signs a book.</i>
  32. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Emilio Zamora, Monica Perales, and John Phillip Santos. Perales is also a board member.</i>
  33. Thumbnail of:  <i>From left to right: Lucas A. Powe, Jr., Mary L. Volcansek, Jesús F. de la Teja, Mickey Klein, and Abigail Finch. Volcansek, de la Teja, and Klein are board members.</i>
  34. Thumbnail of:  <i>Virginia Rutledge with authors Emilio Zamora and John Phillip Santos.</i>
  35. Thumbnail of:  <i>Tiffany Gill signs a book for Samantha Gordon.</i>
  36. Thumbnail of:  <i>From left to right: Former Humanities Texas board member Max Sherman, Bill Hobby, Carolyn Osborn, Tiffany Gill, and board member Mickey Klein.</i>
  37. Thumbnail of:  <i>Authors Bill Wittliff (left) and Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt with a guest.</i>