Experience a weekend of artistic enchantment and sensory delight as Arts In Bloom returns to Downtown McKinney April 10-12 with fine artists, musicians, Texas wineries, and food vendors. photo by Allen Rich

The monthly meeting of the TMC Bonham Hospital Auxiliary group was held on Monday afternoon in the TMC Cafeteria with guest speakers Stephanie Chandler (left) and Trudi Fortune from Community Well TX in Bonham.

Theater For Hope’s spring play opening April 9, Sarah, Plain and Tall, has brought many families acting and performing together to tell this endearing and heart-felt Newberry Award-winning book by Patricia MacLachlan and adapted into a play by Joseph Robinette. In June, the next show for Theater For Hope is the musical Frozen and auditions will be April 27 and 28 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Lelia Roberts became a Methodist missionary and worked in Mexico for 43 years, from 1887 to 1930. Lelia wrote in a letter to the newspaper, the Bonham Daily Favorite, on April 12, 1918, that “just one month has elapsed since Uncle Sam, at the earnest request of the Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, granted me a passport to Mexico, the first American woman, I am told, who has been thus favored.”

Mark your calendar for the annual Easter Festival Eggstravaganza presented by the Bonham Area Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion Anderson-Roberts Post 283! Beginning at 10:00 a.m. at Powder Creek Park on Saturday, April 11, 2026, children & adults are invited to bring their Easter baskets and hunt for over 26,000 eggs! Hunts will be divided into age groups and happen one group at a time, including an adults-only hunt.

1973 – death of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Ruiz Picasso. (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.