Saint Mary’s Parish in Umbarger to celebrate POW art legacy

  • TO SPEAK ON POW CAMP-Joe D. Rogers, renowned former History and shop teacher at Hereford High School, president of the Texas Archaeological Society and Panhandle Archaeological Society, and Region I Texas Archaeological Society director, will speak on Hereford’s POW Camp in World War II: The Town, the Camp, the People at 10:30 a.m. in the Saint Mary’s Parish Hall Saturday, November 22.
    TO SPEAK ON POW CAMP-Joe D. Rogers, renowned former History and shop teacher at Hereford High School, president of the Texas Archaeological Society and Panhandle Archaeological Society, and Region I Texas Archaeological Society director, will speak on Hereford’s POW Camp in World War II: The Town, the Camp, the People at 10:30 a.m. in the Saint Mary’s Parish Hall Saturday, November 22.
  • Featured speaker and presenter at a December 5 Painted Sanctuary event at Saint Mary's Church will be Michaela Wegman, who grew up in the Umbarger community as a member of Saint Mary’s Parish, did her Masters Thesis at West Texas A&M University on her hometown church and its striking art. She is now a PhD candidate in public history.
    Featured speaker and presenter at a December 5 Painted Sanctuary event at Saint Mary's Church will be Michaela Wegman, who grew up in the Umbarger community as a member of Saint Mary’s Parish, did her Masters Thesis at West Texas A&M University on her hometown church and its striking art. She is now a PhD candidate in public history.
  • A COMMUNITY LANDMARK--The Italian Prisoners of War camp that was built south of Hereford in Castro County, and its presence had considerable impact in Castro and Deaf Smith Counties. Italian prisoners built this small chapel, a structure that still stands, outside the main camp, and it has endured despite weather damage and vandalism. Restored art from the front of the altar in the structure is housed in the Castro County Museum in Dimmitt for safekeeping.
    A COMMUNITY LANDMARK--The Italian Prisoners of War camp that was built south of Hereford in Castro County, and its presence had considerable impact in Castro and Deaf Smith Counties. Italian prisoners built this small chapel, a structure that still stands, outside the main camp, and it has endured despite weather damage and vandalism. Restored art from the front of the altar in the structure is housed in the Castro County Museum in Dimmitt for safekeeping.
    “A Legacy of Art and Community” will be celebrated by Saint Mary’s Parish at Umbarger on Saturday, November 22, commemorating 80 years of Italian Prisoner of War art murals at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church.The event will include a presentation by Hereford’s own home-grown POW camp expert Joe D. Rogers and a bus tour of the Castro County Museum and the remnant POW Chapel south of...

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