Campfire Tales, 2022
This Saturday, October 22! Campfire Tales, 2022. All new tales. This Saturday, the 22nd: Local Legends and Lore Next Saturday, the 29th: Bootlegging [...]
By Greta|2022-10-19T16:52:56+00:00October 19th, 2022|architecture, art, beer, brothel, cemeteries, cyclones, Dallas People, Deaths|
This Saturday, October 22! Campfire Tales, 2022. All new tales. This Saturday, the 22nd: Local Legends and Lore Next Saturday, the 29th: Bootlegging [...]
By Greta|2022-10-12T16:19:52+00:00October 12th, 2022|cemeteries, Civil War, collin county, cyclones, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Uncategorized|
Campfire Tales are entirely researched and written by me - they take place in Garland at the Landmark Museum, outside, [...]
By Greta|2022-10-09T20:42:26+00:00October 9th, 2022|architecture, art, cemeteries, Civil War, collin county, Dallas History, Deaths|
The Sachse Celebration of Souls event which included a hayride through the cemetery was a huge success! Thanks for inviting me! Keep your [...]
By Greta|2022-10-08T14:46:36+00:00October 8th, 2022|architecture, art, cemeteries, collin county, Dallas History, Deaths, mckinney, police, Pumpkins|
Me in a cemetery, tonight! Hayride tours of the Sachse Cemetery, next door to the Sachse Historical Socity tonight at 6, 6:30 and [...]
By Greta|2022-01-14T19:32:08+00:00January 14th, 2022|Dallas History, Deaths, Texans|
This week in 1930 (January 18, 1930) the temperature plummeted to a bonechilling -1F (-18C). I am happy to report that the high [...]
By Greta|2022-01-11T16:45:17+00:00January 11th, 2022|art, Deaths, fort worth|
Domenico Ghirlandaio died today in January 1494 . His name isn't quite as familiar as many other Renaissance artists today. But, he was [...]
By Greta|2021-10-19T19:17:00+00:00October 19th, 2021|brothel, cemeteries, Civil War, cyclones, Deaths, garland, historic food, influenza, knights of pythias, Murders, Oddfellows|
Campfire Tales Where: On the Garland Square When: 6 pm More When: Saturday, October 23, 2021 What: Tales of historic Halloween [...]
By Greta|2021-04-08T18:12:23+00:00April 8th, 2021|adolphus, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths|
We ain't done with elevator tragedies. Dallas Morning News, October 22, 1924 Man Crushed by Hotel Elevator .... Batasar Calvilio, 30 years old, [...]
By Greta|2021-04-02T22:23:04+00:00April 2nd, 2021|adolphus, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, train history, trains|
For our fourth installment of Adolphus hotel elevator ghosts, we take a look at one of our most tragic haunt-inducing deaths. The day [...]
By Greta|2021-04-01T21:03:19+00:00April 1st, 2021|adolphus, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths|
The Adolphus hotel elevator shafts saw two back-to-back deaths in 1911 and 1912. Things seem to be quiet for the Dallas hotel until [...]