‘They didn't start out being statues or monuments. “As a state, we need not be afraid of its unvarnished history because those people who are our historical icons were normally typical people with flaws of their own,” Holley said. Holley also explored the general history of the state and the Texas’ legislature’s bill about “critical race theory,” and how race and history are to be taught in schools. Last-minute local Christmas gifts for your favorite cooks
It so impressed the local chief he made her an honorary member of the tribe and an ally against their mutual enemy, the Comanche. On one occasion, after a run-in with a group of Tonkawa, she whacked one of the group with a hatchet. Austin in 1831 - she ran a store known for trading horses to the Tonkawa tribe and Mexican merchants. When he suddenly died in 1836 - after he and Margaret settled in Texas on a land grant from Stephen F. Hallett was the widow of English seaman and War of 1812 veteran John Hallett - he fought with the Americans after deserting from the British Navy some years before. And only a couple of towns, notably Hallettsville - the largest town in the state is named for Margaret Hallett who donated the land for the town’s location. Only one of Texas’ 254 counties - Angelina - qualifies. Holley queried the audience to name other Texas towns or counties named after women. This story was published in a column and a reader pointed out that Bettina was one of the few towns in Texas named for a woman. Founded in the 1800s by young intellectuals, Holley said it disappeared because they thought somebody else was supposed to do the work. He then turned to the long-gone town of Bettina, a German colony in the Hill Country, named for a German woman who was a writer, opera singer and musician. Halletsville – the largest Texas town named for a woman It is the oldest graveyard within city limits. His talk ranged from the unfamiliar, probably to most Texans, history of one John Richardson Harris - founder of Harrisburg, now known as the city of Houston, and his lonely, but appropriate gravesite in Glendale cemetery overlooking an offshoot of Buffalo Bayou. Holley cited Fredericksburg as a prime example of how locals preserved historic buildings and prospered by creating its own distinctive personality. And to be able to tell its story before it might be gone.” If I can find a town where the locals are bringing it back, that interests me as well. “I try to find little towns around Texas, I guess all over the country actually, that are dying. “And so now, developers in Mineral Wells are trying to bring back the hotel,” he said. Legendary outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been said to have spent the night there. Such luminaries included actor Clark Gable and actress Judy Garland, as well as band leaders Lawrence Welk and Glenn Miller.
Holley is working on a story from Mineral Wells, a town in North Texas, about the Baker Hotel which drew quite an A-List of celebrities who came to soak in the mineral waters.
There's strange tales all over the state like that.” “And that's when the Marx Brothers realized they were comedians and not musicians.
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“And he said he was trying to think of a word that rhymes with Nacogdoches and the only thing he could come up with was, ‘Nacogdoches is full of roaches.’ And his colleagues were trying to stop it, (saying), ‘Man, it's just Texas, you don't do this kind of set.’ But then they realized that the whole audience was just laughing uproariously at his insults. “Then the audience filtered back in, sat down and one of the cool young guys, he was sort of pacing back and forth on stage just berating the audience,” he said. Not surprisingly, the four young guys were enraged that their audience just left, Holley said. In the middle of their performance, the doors burst open and some guy yelled, “A mule is loose.” The story goes that the whole audience got up and left, went outside to watch them try to catch the mule. Back in 1907, four young guys from Brooklyn - whose mother was their manager -came in and were doing their show of music, poetry, recitations and the like. Holley told the story of an old opera house in Nacogdoches and its place in the old burlesque circuit.
The Marx Brothers become comedians in Nacogdoches
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