Saint Mary’s Parish in Umbarger to celebrate POW art legacy
TO SPEAK ON POW CAMP-Joe D. Rogers, renowned former History and shop teacher at Hereford High School, president of the Texas Archaeological Society and Panhandle Archaeological Society, and Region I Texas Archaeological Society director, will speak on Hereford’s POW Camp in World War II: The Town, the Camp, the People at 10:30 a.m. in the Saint Mary’s Parish Hall Saturday, November 22.
“A Legacy of Art and Community” will be celebrated by Saint Mary’s Parish at Umbarger on Saturday, November 22, commemorating 80 years of Italian Prisoner of War art murals at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church.
The event will include a presentation by Hereford’s own home-grown POW camp expert Joe D. Rogers and a bus tour of the Castro County Museum and the remnant POW Chapel south of Hereford.
