Greetings, The Billy W. Sills Center for Archives/FWISD presents, "Time Travel along Camp Bowie Boulevard" by Juliet George on Saturday, April 12, 2014. Coffee and nibbles begin at 9:30 am with the program to begin at 10 am. If your childhood was spent in a city, you probably lived in an identifiable neighborhood. Our identity, our character, our values are often shaped by the neighborhood in which we played, worked, shopped, and went to school as youngsters. Our orientation to a city is usually centered on neighborhoods -- the location of businesses, schools, and streets. The street that defines Arlington Heights, for most people who grew up in Cowtown, is Camp Bowie Boulevard -- associated today with brick pavers, boutiques, museums, and restaurants. Before there was a boulevard, the area west of the Trinity River's Clear Fork was a vast grassland prairie reaching toward the sunset. A trolley began crossing a modest bridge there in the early 1890s, chugging toward the new suburb of Chamberlin Arlington Heights. The stretch west of present University Drive was renamed Camp Bowie after World War I. As Ridglea emerged and grew, the boulevard and its name extended further west. On April 12, Juliet George returns to the Archives Center to narrate some fascinating images that have helped define the thoroughfare. The Billy W. Sills Center is located at 2720 Cullen Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107. Please call (817)814-2040 or e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> for further information. Sincerely, Suzanne Fritz, Librarian Fort Worth Library -- Central