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1900 storm: GALVESTON MEETS THE OBAMAS & SEES THEIR CHARITABLE SIDE - 01/10/09 08:04 AM

My hometown is Galveston, Texas. It's on a barrier island just off of the Great State of Texas. I've not lived there in more than three years, but I still remain homesick.
Galveston, with some frequency, is hit by hurricanes. The one that everyone talked about until 2008 was the … (4 comments)

1900 storm: NEW BOOK: GALVESTON - A CITY ON STILTS - 12/26/08 06:45 PM

There is a new historical pictorial titled:Galveston: A City on Stilts (General History: Texas) by Jodi Wright-Gidley and Jennifer Marines (Paperback - Oct 13, 2008)It is primarily a selection of photos taken by a professional photographer named Zeva B. Edworthy, who lived in the city for about eleven years after the … (0 comments)

1900 storm: THE IRONIES OF THE 1900 STORM VS. HURRICANE IKE - 12/05/08 06:29 AM

            Unlike 108 years later when Hurricane Ike struck, Galveston was in a stark raving fiscal and financial mess when the 1900 Storm hit the island on Sunday, September 9, 1900.
            That on top of that the 1900 Storm killed at least 6,000 of the island's residents.
            There were … (2 comments)

1900 storm: HURRICANE IKE MEETS THE FAMOUS GAIDO'S RESTAURANT - GALVESTON - 10/01/08 04:48 PM

Since 1911, the Gaido family has owned and operated Galveston's most famous seafood restaurant. For at least the past half-century it has been on the corner of 39th Street and Seawall Boulevard.
Millions of meals are served there every year. Generations of tourists come to the island every year for a … (8 comments)

1900 storm: HURRICANE IKE & LIFE ON GALVESTON ISLAND -- TOTALLY INCONGRUENT - 09/14/08 06:40 AM

Galveston, Texas is a barrier island.
And it is where I was born and lived for most of the first 65 years of my life; the last three in Dallas.
I know the island so well -- its past and its present -- that for 10 years I wrote its history … (24 comments)

1900 storm: A Godly Light Seemed to Promise Peace - 07/29/07 10:25 AM

<----In the almost total darkness, the cross began to glow
By the time the Korean Conflict was going strong in the early 1950's, Trinity Episcopal Church was 109 years old, and it and its congregation had been through a lot together.
Twice after this Gothic-Revival style church was designed and built by Irish … (9 comments)

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