Grayson County, Texas -- The Grayson County Historical Society will be holding its monthly meeting Tuesday, February 11 at 6:30 p.m. We have invited Mark Schabel, Viticulture Professor of Grayson College. Mark will be speaking about T.V. Munson, "The Grape Man of Texas."
Our speaker, Mark Schabel, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. In the past 28 years, he has had the opportunity to expand his knowledge and experience by working with fifteen winemaking or viticulture consultants and over eighty different wine labels.
Schael holds a Master of Science in Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences from Texas A&M and a Bachelor of Science Horticulture and Crop Science from Sam Houston State. He previously served as the Director and Professor of Viticulture and Enology at Grayson College from 2011 to 2014.
The society meets the second Tuesday of the month in Judge Vaughan room at Frontier Village at the entrance of Loy Lake Park located midway between Sherman and Denison off Hwy 75, exit 67. Meeting time is 6:30 in the evening with doors opening at 6:15 being greeted by Pam and Gerald Alblas, our host and hostess.
