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Caprock Chronicles: Lubbock Police Department centennial Monte Monroe Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Monte Monroe, Ph.D. He is an archivist at the Southwest/Special Collection Library on the campus of Texas Tech University. On May 11, 2021, the mayor and city council officially recognized the Lubbock Police Department for 100 years of service, hosting a public exhibit in the lobby of Citizens Tower and by proclamation. The LPD’s growth followed patterns of...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker a retired librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian of Lubbock, who holds a master’s degree in history from Texas Tech.  Horace Anglin is a retired fire chief with the Lubbock Fire Department.  In 1970, he worked at Fire Station 10, which was at 48th Street and Quirt Ave (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd).  He was the captain of that station and was in the first crew that moved there when it opened.  Two lieutenants posted t...

Caprock Chronicles: If these pincushions could talk Marian Ann J. Montgomery Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech Librarian.  He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu.  Today’s article is by Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Curator of Clothing and Textiles, Museum of Texas Tech University and a frequent contributor to this column. "Sumptuous Stitches and Tiny Treasures: Needlework and Needlework Tools" from the Museum of Texas Tech University Collection is currently open and runs through Dec. 19, 2021.  Among the beautiful pieces are needlework and go...

Caprock Chronicles: El Nino and West Texas Richard Peterson Editor's Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited weekly by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Dr. Richard Peterson, professor emeritus, TTU, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. In 1983 the Institute of Disaster at Texas Tech University received a desperate request for assistance from a community in northern Chile. Due to torrential rains, their normally arid environment was being transformed, resulting in a total disruption of daily life. We were unable to a...

Caprock Chronicles: From Texas Tech pilot to the Himalaya Mountains - a Panhandle farmer’s journey During WWII Mary Walker Clark Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel writer who has recently written “Landing in my Present,” her journey retracing her father’s war time experiences in Indian and China. In 1939, Ray Charles Walker (Charlie) from Plainview, entered the recently opened Texas Technological Community College t...