C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Beaumont, Texas, on January 9-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time-Warner Cable local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.

These are the segments that aired on Book TV:

The Book Bazaar
Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey of an American President
Books of Hours Exhibition
Betting, Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
Lamar University Library Special Collections
Making of Medieval Manuscripts
Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside