Fair Fare on the Square, II
Do you need socially distanced fun? The Square in Garland has you covered. For all of September, the businesses on the Square are [...]
Fair Fare on the Square
For the entire month of September, businesses around the Square in Garland are re-creating State Fair food! No State Fair this year, but [...]
Early 19th Century Table Setting
So, we have set our 1825 table with fancy flow blue china from our last post and now we need to keep everything [...]
More table stuff! Flow Blue China
Our last two posts included gaming tables and what games would be played in the early 1800s. Well, let's look at what your [...]
Gaming Table Mystery, Solved!
Our last post was inquiring about a 'loo table' from the Ximenez-Fatio house in St. Augustine, Florida. Libby came through with what I [...]
Mysterious table!
Recent travels took me to St. Augustine, Florida. There, I visited the Ximenez-Fatio house for a very masked and socially distanced tour. (I [...]
Alex Cockrell Headstone
I have written about Alex Cockrell before in that he was one of the first non-Native settlers on the Trinity River in Dallas. [...]
Temple Emanu-El Cemetery
This is the lone white bronze marker I found in the Temple Emanu-el cemetery in Dallas. The Temple Emanu-El cemetery is located just [...]
Bamboozled by Sprinze
A few weeks ago I made a jaunt to Austin, Texas. I visited the Oakwood Cemetery and was thrilled to find the headstone [...]
Freedman’s Cemetery, Part III
Parts I and II were concerned with the burials and headstones. Part III delves in to the artist and design behind the memorial [...]