Why do dinosaurs have feathers? Do we know what color T-Rex was? Matt Flynn will illustrate how discoveries in Paleontology affect Paleoart, the artistic depiction of dinosaurs in textbooks, models, and popular culture.

Join Elizabeth Hansen from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image in exploring Wilco on the Silver Screen! This Salon will be all about films shot in or about the county as part of our 175th anniversary programming!

Join us on August 9th to talk pirates, navies, sailing ships and steamships with Julia Stryker, PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Julia studies women’s labor at sea in the nineteenth-century British empire, and her research on maritime culture has taken her from Newfoundland to Matagorda Bay and beyond.