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Remember Goliad!

Posted on September 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Remember Goliad!

FanninThe 1936 memorial to Texas militia Colonel James Fannin and his 400 men, massacred by the Mexican army in 1836, thanks in large part to their feckless commander. Nevertheless. The memorial is said to be on the site where their bodies were heaped and burned. Best version of massacre here. Worth reading.

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Posted in Library, South of the Border, Texana

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Back to the rancho

Posted on August 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Back to the rancho

It was the usual long haul back this afternoon. Coming back from Port A always seems harder than going down there. Anticipation is over, I suppose. We did stop for lunch in Cuero, for a change, at one of the town’s mainstay eateries, a 50-year-old burger joint called K&N Root Beer.

And we took pictures in Goliad of La Bahia, including the Fannin memorial, The Angel, Gen. Zaragoza’s statue, and the chapel at La Bahia, all of which I will explain in my own way when I get the pictures posted, one at a time over the next month or so.

Finally we stopped in Lulling to take snaps of the decorated oil pump jacks: a Killer Whale and two kids eating watermelon on a teeter-totter. Touristing, you might say, though we’ve seen it all a thousand times. Comforting, though.

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Remember Goliad!

Posted on March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Remember Goliad!

It’s been eulogized, memorialized, fictionalized and historified (sic) but the Goliad massacre, 174 years ago today, still resonates for those in the know. For those who aren’t, the folks at Presidio La Bahia have done some restoration and gotten a little new publicity in hopes of drawing more visitors. Not that they’re ever likely to match the tourist trade at the Alamo, but it’s worth a try. And worth a visit. It’s quiet out there, the silence broken only by the sounds of birds, fitting for the resting place of 342 Texas patriots massacred by order of a mad Mexican general.

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