Category Archives: Texana

Don’t picnic here

Posted on October 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Don’t picnic here

Think of this list as the anti-Texas Monthly look at tourism in the Lone Star. Courtesy of Banjo Jones.

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Red River Shootout

Posted on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Red River Shootout

It’s here. Well, almost, and here’s a little razz-a-ma-tazz to get into the spirit of what to expect.

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A look back

Posted on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off on A look back

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Austin’s long-vanished train station, from a collection of old penny postcards found at USGenWeb. 

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Draining Lake Travis

Posted on September 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Draining Lake Travis

Some people worry a lot about Lake Travis, especially when new municipalities start negotiating with the Lower Colorado River Authority for access. The lake is a reservoir, with customers downstream, and a certain vulnerability to the weather. So it goes up and down, and up and down. Last year it was waaaayyy down. Which is when this outfit got started and used one of my photos, which they have finally attributed, for which I am grateful. Cute cartoon, too. Check it out.

UPDATE:  And, then, I don’t when, they went toes up and the photo also disappeared.

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Posted in Sailing, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Guy Town

Posted on September 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Guy Town

In Matamoras and other Mexican border towns, the legal bordello is called "Boy’s Town." In Austin, beginning about a hundred and thirty years ago and extending into the teens of the 20th century when it was outlawed, the red light district was called "Guy Town." The funny part is that its remains were only finally explored by private archeologists a few years ago, right before Austin built its new downtown city hall, more or less on the same spot. So you could say that today’s elected whores are approriately located.

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Are You Army Strong?

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Are You Army Strong?

Another 9/11 generation recruit for the GWOT, hoping to become SF. And his blogger dad’s reaction.

Via Instapundit 

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The mother of Texas?

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on The mother of Texas?

More like one of the first entrepreneurs with a vivid imagination. Jane Long was the wife of an early "filibuster," meaning an American who tried to organize the overthrow of the government of Mexico.

James Long disappeared on this very day in 1821 and she gave birth to a daughter a few months later. Years after, she would claim to "the mother of Texas," because of the birth, though historians say other pregnant Anglos preceded her in the feat.

In her old age, she claimed to have been courted by such luminaries as Houston, Lamar and Milam. 

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