Lunch and Learn: Stories from Mays and Main

Mark Mayfield is a seventh-generation Texan with deep family roots in Round Rock that stretch back to the 1870s. Among other things, he has a collection of family home movies dating from the early 1940s. Local history is part of his family story: his great-grandmother witnessed the famous Sam Bass shootout in Round Rock, and his grandfather ran the gas station at Mays and Main that later became a gathering place for the Domino Players. Mark is retired from the U.S. Department of State, where he spent much of his career serving overseas and in Washington, D.C. Today he lives in Temple, Texas, where he continues to enjoy exploring and sharing the history of Central Texas.