History of Smither Park

 Pete Gershon is a writer, researcher, and the curator of programs at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. He’s the author of ‘Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985’ and ‘Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston’s Visionary Art Environments.’  Previously he’s worked with the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art and with Nameless Sound, and he was the founding publisher and editor of ’Signal to Noise: the journal of improvised and experimental music’ from 1997 to 2013.