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Italian POW Artists at Umbarger & the Texas Painted ChurchesUmbarger's Painted Church story includes an unusual World War II chapter: Italian prisoners of war from the Hereford camp contributed murals and carved religious figures to St. Mary's in 1945.
Destination
Buffalo Lake National Wildlife RefugeBuffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge south of Umbarger protects more than 7,600 acres of High Plains grassland and playa-country habitat where a former reservoir is now largely dry but wildlife viewing remains the central attraction.
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St. Mary’s Catholic ChurchA Panhandle church in Umbarger that demonstrates the statewide reach of Texas’s decorative-interior church tradition.
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Michaela Wegman | Texas Painted ChurchesMichaela Wegman is an Umbarger native and art historian whose research and public interpretation focus on the Italian prisoner-of-war mural project at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Umbarger.