— The Museum of South Texas History will host a Sunday Speaker Series presentation, “Freddy Fender’s Meteoric Rise to Stardom,” featuring author Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender at 2 p.m. on July 23.Huerta Fender authored the first volume of a threepart biography on the truelife story of her father, the late Baldemar Huerta known as Freddy Fender, the King of Tex-Mex. Volume I: “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: A Meteoric Rise to Stardom” is published through Xlibris.Huerta Fender will read the introduction from the biography and describe the depth of Fender’s mindset and childhood.Growing up fatherless, Fender and his younger siblings ...