Filmmaker Taylor Sheridan, creator of Yellowstone and Tulsa King, has another series in the works and former Bonham mayor Sue Smith (pictured), along with her daughter-in-law Jenn Smith, may have minor roles as extras. courtesy photo

A new public art experience opens this summer in North Texas. In celebration of America’s Semiquincentennial, MillHouse Foundation, in partnership with Cotton Mill Partners, presents the inaugural America 250: Texas Trailblazing Wonder Women Exhibition, on view June 12 through August 26 inside the newly launched Atrium Gallery at the McKinney Cotton Mill Arts and Design District.

This month’s challenge is to use the whole color pallet in your artwork. Artwork is due June 4. We want our gallery to explode with color as part of Creative Arts Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration.

Harriet Zumwalt was born in 1921 in Philadelphia and trained as a nurse at Lankenair Hospital and Nurses Training school in Philadelphia. Upon graduation from nursing school in 1943, she was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps. By the end of the war, she was a 1st lieutenant. Harriet was assigned to the USAHS Seminole, an Army hospital ship, which supported the Italian invasion. While stationed on the Seminole, Harriet made fourteen Atlantic crossings caring for both wounded soldiers and prisoners-of-war.

Research released today by the National Association of Counties (NACo) underscores a national road funding crisis and the large role counties play in the U.S. transportation network, as infrastructure investment needs outpace available revenue. This is due to aging infrastructure, rising construction costs and weakened purchasing power. The American Society of Civil Engineers projects a $684 billion national funding shortfall for roads over the next decade, of which counties own a significant share.

1946 – death of Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist. Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film. Tarkington wrote the epitaph on Harry Peyton Steger's headstone in Bonham's Willow Wild Cemetery.