The United States will soon be celebrating its 250th Anniversary. As part of that celebration, a group of eight women came together at the Creative Arts Center in Bonham and created a fabulous patriotic crazy quilt. Raffle tickets for this special quilt are now on sale. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.

It is that time of year again for the annual ARRL sponsored Ham Radio Field Day. Amateur Radio operators across the country will gather to erect antennas, attach feedlines and power up radios to make contacts with stations all over the country and the world. This is a 24-hour event beginning on Saturday, June 27 and ending the afternoon of June 28. Plano Amateur Radio Klub will join the Fannin County ARC, the Grayson County ARC and others across the state and nation in participating in this event.

This summer visit the Fannin County Museum of History in Bonham and we will give you a FREE stamped postcard to send to a relative or friend. (You have your address book in your phone!)

Children ages 10 to 12 are invited to join a three-hour program at the Sam Rayburn House SHS to learn about basic architecture, design a scale model floor plan of a home from preselected rooms, and create a 3-D version of their design. Children wanting to know more about architecture, home design, or even how they can effectively rearrange their room are invited to this camp. Registration is required to attend the camp, and the registration deadline is June 15.

With a call for Texas women artists, Texas Vignette has opened submissions for the Vignette Art Fair, which returns Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2026, at On The Levee in the Dallas Design District (1108 Quaker St., Dallas, TX 75207). The call for entries runs through June 26. Selected artists will be notified by Aug. 17. The submission fee is $36. 2025 Vignette Art Fair photo by Sheryl Lanzel

1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to as Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was a radical of the American temperance movement, which opposed alcohol consumption before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with rocks and later a hatchet. In addition to their financial difficulties, many of her family members had mental illnesses; her mother, at times, had delusions. In 1865, Carrie met Charles Gloyd, a young physician who had fought for the Union and was a severe alcoholic. They were married on November 21, 1867, and separated shortly before the birth of their daughter, Charlien, on September 27, 1868. Gloyd died in 1869 of alcoholism. Influenced by the death of her husband, Carrie Gloyd developed a passionate activism against alcohol. She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like," and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars. In 1874, Carrie Gloyd married David A. Nation, an attorney, minister, newspaper journalist, and father who was 19 years her senior. Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction using rocks, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record. After she led a raid in Wichita, Kansas, Nation's husband joked that she should use a hatchet next time for maximum damage. Nation replied, "That is the most sensible thing you have said since I married you." The couple divorced in 1901. She was known as "Mother Nation" for her charity and religious work, which she thought of as an extension of her fight against drunkenness. She attempted to help people in prison. In 1890, Nation founded a sewing circle in Medicine Lodge, Kansas to make clothing for the poor as well as prepare meals for them on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 1901, Nation established a shelter for wives and children of alcoholics in Kansas City, Missouri. This shelter would later be described as an "early model for today's battered women's shelter." Nation visited Bonham, Texas in 1905 and, after a rousing speech in the Steger Opera House, she retired to the Alexander Hotel.