3 WINTER TEXAN TIMES www.wintertexantimes.com NOVEMBER 13, 2024 HIDALGO COUNTY 1101 East Business 83 • Donna, TX 1 1/2 miles West of Don-Wes Flea Market www.galvaninsuranceagency.com *Premiums subject to carrier underwriting. Rates subject to change. *$284.00per year. Conditions Apply. As Low as We Also Offer Flood Coverage Call or Come See Us 956-464-2886 We Also Insure: Park Models Motorcycles “Casitas” Travel Trailers Motor Homes Golf Carts 5th Wheels Autos And more... MOBILE HOME INSURANCE Basic and Comprehensive Plans Mexico Auto Insurance Available The Museum of South Texas History will host the Sunday Speaker Series presentation “The Alamo Train Crash of 1940: From class podcast project to book” with Juan P. Carmona and Taylor Seaver De La Fuente at 2 p.m. November 17. What began as a podcast project with Donna High School’s Mexican American Studies class, has now blossomed into a book project. The deadly Alamo train crash of 1940 occurred when a train collided with a truckload of farmworkers on their way to work in the fields. The crash resulted in the deaths of 29 people and the emotional scarring of all those involved. It would also result in transportation safety changes in Texas. The families affected by the crash were confronted with struggles and accomplishments as they dealt with the loss of family members and their breadwinners. Carmona—author of the “Alton Bus Crash”—and co-author Seaver De La Fuente, who narrated the podcast, will share their research and share the history of this seminal event. Carmona is a social studies teacher at Donna High School and a dual enrollment history instructor through South Texas College. He graduated with honors from the American Military University with a master’s degree in American history and was awarded the 2018 James F. Veninga Outstanding Teaching Humanities Award by Humanities Texas. He is a member of the NACCS Tejas Foco Committee for Mexican American Studies K-12 and the Social Studies Coordinator for the Rio Grande Valley Coalition for Mexican American Studies. Carmona is also a member of the award-winning Refusing to Forget Public History Project. His primary field of research is the history of South Texas borderlands. He is the co-founder of Nosotrxs Por El Valle. Seaver De La Fuente is a Rio Grande Valley native from a family of Mexican and Mexican American migrant farmworkers. Her current graduate research at the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley focuses on the evolution of Mexican American studies and the civil rights contributions of Chicanx youth within the RGV. Sunday Speaker Series is included in the fee for regular museum admission. FRIENDS of MOSTHistory are admitted free as a benefit of FRIENDship and must present their FRIENDship card at See SPEAKERS pg. 12 Sunday Speakers Series highlights Alamo Train Crash of 1940 Juan P. Carmona. Photo courtesy of MOSTH Taylor Seaver De La Fuente. Photo courtesy of MOSTH
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