As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration, we reached out to all of the surviving women who have been Directors of the Creative Arts Center and asked them to reflect on their work at the center. Keep reading to learn what they accomplished during their tenures here and some of their favorite memories.

Calling all young adventurers ages 8–12! Get ready for 3 days of hands-on pioneer fun at Frontier Village & Museum in Denison, Texas! From butter churning and weaving to open-fire cooking and old-fashioned games, campers will experience life on the frontier like never before. We will host 2 camps with different activities each week.

The Frontiers of Flight Museum has observed Moon Day since 2009 as an annual event to celebrate space exploration on or near the anniversary of the first Moon landing. The festival is a STEM-focused, space-themed public event, which continues to attract attendees across North Texas and beyond. Visitors to the Smithsonian-affiliated museum will enjoy interactive activities, unique exhibits and space-themed presentations for the entire community. Additionally, they’ll view authentic space history including the Apollo 7 Command Module and the only moon rock on display in North Texas.

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.

June is going to be a busy month for the airwaves and the club. The biggest event will be the ARRL Field Day June 27 and 28, 2026. FCARC will set up at the Bois D'Arc Creek Cowboy Church beside their arena and operate for the roughly 24hour event, and we invite you to stop by and see what we do.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Kerama Islands surrounding Okinawa were preemptively captured on 26 March 1945 by the U.S. Army 77th Infantry Division. The 82-day battle on Okinawa lasted from 1 April 1945 until 22 June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air Base on the island as a staging point for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands, 340 miles away. There were about 100,000 Japanese troops on Okinawa at the onset of the invasion. The battle was the longest sustained carrier campaign of the Second World War. The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English, known in Japanese as "tetsu no bōfū". The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of Japanese kamikaze attacks and the significant volume of Allied vessels and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was the bloodiest and fiercest in the Pacific Ocean Theatre, with some 50,000 Allied and around 100,000 Japanese casualties, also including local Okinawans conscripted into the Japanese Army. According to local authorities, at least 149,425 Okinawan people were killed, died by coerced suicide or went missing.