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Oakwood Cemetery Chapel presents To Write: Flower Hill by Rosa Walston Latimer

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Save Austin's Cemeteries will host an author talk on the story of Flower Hill, and its residents. Rosa Walston Latimer is the award-winning author of Austin’s Flower Hill Legacy: A Remarkable Family and a Sixth Street Wildscape, published by The History Press and available in December 2021.

The book chronicles the history of three generations of the Smoot family whose essence lives on in familiar places such as Central Presbyterian Church (formerly the First Southern Presbyterian Church), the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, The Austin American-Statesman, the State Capitol, the University of Texas, and Austin and Travis High Schools.

Latimer is the 2020-21 Artist-in-Residence for the Flower Hill Foundation. She is also author of a series of books about the establishment of Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas.

Save Austin's Cemeteries will host an author talk on the story of Flower Hill, and its residents. Rosa Walston Latimer is the award-winning author of Austin’s Flower Hill Legacy: A Remarkable Family and a Sixth Street Wildscape, published by The History Press and available in December 2021.

The book chronicles the history of three generations of the Smoot family whose essence lives on in familiar places such as Central Presbyterian Church (formerly the First Southern Presbyterian Church), the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, The Austin American-Statesman, the State Capitol, the University of Texas, and Austin and Travis High Schools.

Latimer is the 2020-21 Artist-in-Residence for the Flower Hill Foundation. She is also author of a series of books about the establishment of Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas.

Save Austin's Cemeteries will host an author talk on the story of Flower Hill, and its residents. Rosa Walston Latimer is the award-winning author of Austin’s Flower Hill Legacy: A Remarkable Family and a Sixth Street Wildscape, published by The History Press and available in December 2021.

The book chronicles the history of three generations of the Smoot family whose essence lives on in familiar places such as Central Presbyterian Church (formerly the First Southern Presbyterian Church), the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, The Austin American-Statesman, the State Capitol, the University of Texas, and Austin and Travis High Schools.

Latimer is the 2020-21 Artist-in-Residence for the Flower Hill Foundation. She is also author of a series of books about the establishment of Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas.

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Oakwood Cemetery
1601 Navasota St.
Austin, TX 78702
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/to-write-flower-hill-by-rosa-walston-latimer-tickets-214821556057

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