Upcoming Speaker! Roscoe C. Compton is a Beaumont, Texas, resident, historical researcher, speaker, and community educator committed to preserving and sharing the history and legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers. His interest in the Buffalo Soldiers began in 1983 after hearing Bob Marley and the Wailers’ song “Buffalo Soldier.” That interest grew into a deeper commitment in 2017 when he joined the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club and began researching their military service, cou

The Tyrrell received 106 new genealogy books for their ever growing collection. Branch Manager William Grice sent the list over to us so we could share it with you! Alabama Peter J. Hamilton. Colonial Mobile. An Historical Study from 1519 until 1821. Herbert Newell & Jeanie Newell. Fayette County, Alabama Index to Wills and Estate Records, 1851-1974. Herbert Newell. Fayette County, Alabama Cemetery Records. Herbert Newell. Fayette County, Alabama Index to Marriage Recor

Join us on Friday, December 12, 2025 from 5:30 - 7:30 for the release of The Storm Inside: Poetry and Prose by Orange County High School Students. This collection is being published by the Lamar University Literary Press and is the result of a partnership between The Center for History and Culture and Ancient to the Future. The project serves as a continuation of Ancient to the Future’s earlier Another Way anthology, in which students from Jefferson County published their