The Creative Arts Center invites the community to enjoy an evening of live music, friends, and good vibes at Music in the Garden with Randy Hopper on Thursday, October 15, from 7:00–9:00 p.m.

The Kimbell Art Museum announced two special exhibitions for 2027: Treasures of the Pharaohs in the spring, followed by Thomas Gainsborough opening in the fall. The Kimbell will be one of only two museums in North America to display 130 carefully selected artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum, offering rare insights into the daily life, social structures, religious practices, and legacies of the Egyptian pharaohs. Then, Thomas Gainsborough will receive an exhibition befitting his legacy on the 300th anniversary of his birth – the first major survey of his work in more than two decades.

All aboard! Thomas the Tank Engine™, everyone's favorite No. 1 blue engine, is rolling into Grapevine this October for Day Out with Thomas™: The Let's Rock, Let's Roll Tour. Tickets are on sale now for this family-friendly experience aboard Grapevine Vintage Railroad. Families will enjoy a train ride with a life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine along with a full day of activities, including live entertainment, photo opportunities with Sir Topham Hatt™, lawn games, the interactive Music Corner featuring hands-on activities and music-inspired fun and shopping for exclusive Thomas
merchandise.

Step back in time and discover how Halloween was celebrated a century ago during “Tricks, Treats, and Timeless Traditions,” a family-friendly evening at the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site on Saturday, October 17, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

This sketch of the Texas & Pacific rail yards, the T&P lake and the Bonham Cotton Mill, one of the areas devastated by the July 1903 flood, was drawn by Casey Grimes, working from memory. Drawn in perhaps in the 1960s, it made its way to Bonham in August 1969 (BDF, August 7, 1969) and is now on display, along with other Bonham scenes sketched by Grimes, in the Fannin County Historical Museum.

2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies. Orthoebolavirus zairense or Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus, is one of six known species within the genus Orthoebolavirus. Four of the six known ebolaviruses, including EBOV, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as Ebola virus disease (EVD). Ebola virus has caused the majority of human deaths from EVD, and was the cause of the 2013–2016 epidemic in western Africa, which resulted in at least 28,646 suspected cases and 11,323 confirmed deaths. Ebola virus and its genus were both originally named after the Ebola River and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the country where it was first described. The natural reservoir of Ebola virus is believed to be bats, particularly fruit bats, and it is primarily transmitted between humans and from animals to humans through body fluids.