Essentials: Happy Birthday, LBJ

The LBJ Library and Museum in Austin hosts its annual LBJ Birthday Celebration on Aug. 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 512/721-0200; www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.

LBJ State Park and Historic Site, one mile east of Stonewall, provides birthday refreshments on Aug. 27 at the park visitor center. The park’s Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm also hosts activities in honor of LBJ’s birthday. Call 830/644-2252; www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lbj.

LBJ National Historical Park has two sections, the LBJ Ranch (near Stonewall) and the main park headquarters in Johnson City, where you can tour LBJ’s boyhood home, his grand-parents’ homestead (known as the Johnson Settlement), and the National Park Visitor Center. On August 27, the LBJ Ranch will host a wreath-laying ceremony and the opening of LBJ’s office in the “Texas White House” to the public. (To tour the ranch, you board a bus at the visitor center at the state park.) Call 830/385-3927; www.nps.gov.

The LBJ Museum of San Marcos focuses on LBJ’s formative years in college at San Marcos (1927-1930). Call 512/353-3300; www.lbjmuseum.com.

See the full article in the August 2008 issue.

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