MASON, Texas —
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel, who is receiving accolades for his new book The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, which explores the saga of Comanche captive Cynthia Anne Parker, is one of four distinguished speakers at a free symposium in Central Texas hosted by the Mason County Historical Commission. Joining Frankel is Donaly Brice, author of The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic, and Reference Archivist with the Texas State Library and Archives. Also speaking is UTSA anthropologist Daniel Gelo, a recognized authority on the culture of the Plains Indians who has conducted fieldwork with the Comanche people since 1982. Mason County native Esther Lehmann, whose uncle Herman Lehmann was captured by Apaches and lived with the tribe through his adolescent years and later wrote Nine Years Among the Indians, will share accounts from her uncle, who later came to live with the family. Moderator Scott Zesch is the author of The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, which won the TCU Texas Book Award. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.
The symposium takes place on Sunday, May 19 at 2 p.m. in the Mason High School Auditorium at 1105 West College Ave. For more information, contact the Mason County Historical Commission at 325.347.6583 or www.masonchc.org.
UPDATED: The symposium venue has been changed from the original location at the high school auditorium to the Odeon Theater.
