Category: History
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Tuesday Open Comments Port Bolivar “Lit”house.
Shannon says: December 12, 2022 at 3:51 pm Even Super Dave never saw the Port Isabel Lighthouse lit up before. And Super Dave has not seen the Port Bolivar Lighthouse lit up before either. It was quite the surprise for BSue and me to drive by the Port Bolivar Lighthouse and see it lit up.…
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Friday Only the Lonely Open Comments
I discovered this book through the venerable Mark Tapscott. He exposed me to Stella Morabito. Periodically, a book comes along that is essential reading in order to understand a particular period or movement in history. James Burnham’s“Suicide of the West” in 1964 for the inevitable decay of modern liberalism and Paul Johnson’s“Modern Times” for the spread of…
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Houston – Back Then
Recently was made aware of this site, which has old maps of Houston. The following maps have been resized in order to be uploaded, so if you can’t see a detail you want, I recommend going to the original site, where the maps are hi-resolution and unreduced. Here’s a 1954 map: And here’s a 1942…