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galveston: THE PROVEN METHOD OF ENSURING CHURCH MEMBERSHIP GROWTH - 02/14/12 07:59 PM
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHGalveston, Texas Founded 1841The Gothic Church Building Completed in 1857
Recently the enormously wealthy Moody Foundation of Galveston, Texas chose to award a grant of $2.7 million to Trinity Episcopal Church’s parochial school rather than to the church itself.
It came with great thought as to how the church and the school could best be helped to grow. I wrote this piece for the Galveston paper.
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What Moody Foundations Grant to Trinity Really Means
A number of years ago, Houston’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church’s membership was diminishing. Many worried that at that rate, the parish could soon … (2 comments)
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galveston: THE STORY OF FRANNY KAY'S BOUT WITH LEW'S PIANO - 02/01/12 08:40 AM
The Story of Franny Kay’s Bout with Lew’s Piano
By Bill Cherry
The glow of sunset in the summer skies,The golden flicker of the fire flies,The gleam of love light in your loving eyes,These are the things I love--Words by Harold Barlow, Music by Lewis Harris
Galveston implant, Lew Harris, wrote the music to this song when, just out of Boston College, he was the pianist with the house orchestra at Manhattan’s famous Rainbow Room.
Over the years, Lew Harris’ song, “These Are the Things I Love,” has been recorded by Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Caterina Valente, Della Reese, … (1 comments)
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galveston: THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH - 01/31/12 08:15 AM
THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH
By Bill Cherry
Fifty-five years of January 16ths have come and gone since then, but the lesson taught on January 16, 1957 by Ball High School speech and drama teacher, Arthur Graham, at the old Galveston County Courthouse remain intact to this day with those who were there.
Graham had undergraduate degrees in speech and drama, physiology, and a master’s degree in psychology. He had planned to be a medical doctor, but lack of money had interfered with that.
So after a few years acting off-Broadway in minor legitimate theater productions, he returned to Galveston … (0 comments)
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galveston: The Maceo Days -- Not as you've been led to believe - 12/22/11 06:16 AM
Note: This is the original draft of the piece I wrote for Texas Heritage, the magazine of the Texas Historical Foundation. It is in the Volume 4 2011 issue.
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galveston: Oscar and Bill Met the Belmont Hotel's New "Manager" - 11/09/11 08:08 AM
The Day Oscar Ekelund and I Met the Hotel’s New Manager
By Bill Cherry
Moments before, George Mitchell had finished up the stuff necessary for him to buy the long out of business flop house called the Belmont Hotel.
It sat on the northwest corner of Tremont and Mechanic streets, adjacent to the two other buildings he would also be using to comprise his latest vision for Galveston, a reenactment of the Tremont Hotel of days gone by.
As I stood looking up at the building from across the street, I noticed the four windows at the top floor’s southwest corner … (2 comments)
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galveston: HOW ONE MORMON LIVED HIS LIFE. - 11/04/11 05:11 AM
GLENDON E. JOHNSON
By Bill Cherry
Glendon Johnson told his granddaughter, Erin Stewart, that “cowboys answer to two people: their God and their momma.”
She said, “He lived his life with the thought in mind that someday he would have to answer to his Heavenly Father, and — perhaps more intimidating — to his mother”
He was sure that his “mother would hold him accountable for how he treated others, how he cared for his siblings and how he used the time he had in this life to bless others.”
I suppose that credo was why Johnson was so well-liked when … (1 comments)
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galveston: GALVESTON MEMORIES -- HISTORY PIECES ON TV - 09/18/11 11:29 AM
Those interested in the eclectic history of Galveston, Texas, could possibly find the pieces I did for News-24 Houston of value.
I've posted 8 on youtube, and plan to add more each week until they are all available.
Here's the link.
Current subject include: 1939 Birth of the Badgett Quadruplets, How the Texas Rangers closed down illegal casinos, Grand 1894 Opera House, the Easter Vigil, Famous DJ Rascal McCaskill, Mudrocks Bath House, Gaido's famous seafood restaurant, and Rock-a-Billy Hall of Fame member, Utah Carl Beach.
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galveston: BILL CHERRY'S GALVESTON MEMORIES NOW ON YOUTUBE - 09/07/11 07:11 PM
Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories are now on Youtube.
We are adding the pieces about Galveston characters and places that I did for Houston's Channel 24 about 8 years ago.
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galveston: THE NIGHT OWL - 07/21/11 08:06 AM
Some say it's because it's a seaport town.
Others say it was inevitable since it's an island dangling off of the south shore of Texas.
But no one disagrees with the universal opinion that Galveston, Texas has an overabundance of characters, now and always has.
The Night Owl by Christie "The Beachcomber" Mitchell with Bill Cherry chronicles the island's most famous public relations man, as he and his wife, Janie, weave their ways through the "What's Up" of Galveston during the '40s and '50s, and tell about it in Walter Winchell style through Mitchell's weekly newspaper columns.
Those were … (1 comments)
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galveston: GALVESTON'S STRAND: Lingering Shadow of Riches Untold - 05/10/11 07:34 PM
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galveston: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MEETING TO SELL TEXANS CASINO GAMBLING - 02/25/11 12:10 PM
Jack E. Pratt, Sr., told me once that he's a Southern Baptist. He lives in Dallas and has made a bunch of money as the owner of some Holiday Inns, Dairy Queens, and, incongruously, a corporation that owns casinos.
He's probably in his mid-80s by now, but for years he's been one of the major forces behind legalizing casino gambling in Texas. He still hasn't given up.
Pratt is a bald headed man who, when I first met him, closely resembled Galveston's living patron saint, George Mitchell. They're both slim, about the same height and, in addition to both being bald, have the same … (4 comments)
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galveston: A Story about Casino Gambling from Galveston's Past - 02/21/11 11:34 AM
The Pleasure Pier over the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas was really built to be a gambling casino. (Nobody seems to like to talk about that, or they don't know it) This isn't conjecture, though, it's fact.
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Here was the reasoning.
Since it was to be built on land that collateralized bonds issued to the City of Galveston by the Federal government, at the time the conventional wisdom was that Texas law wouldn't be able to prevent that illegal use since there were no applicable federal laws against it.
The Maceo family -- Rosario and Sam -- was concerned the Balinese Room, … (1 comments)
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galveston: PROPOSED CASINO GAMBLING FOR TEXAS -- Galveston Island - 02/13/11 12:28 AM
A Primer of the Island's Experience with Gambling's PastBy Bill Cherry
Once again, there are those who hope that legislation allowing casino gambling in Texas will be introduced in this session, and that it will be approved.And once again, the uninformed and the unrealistic dreamers who live in Galveston are salivating...they think this is the answer to turning around an economically crashing city.The majority of today's Galvestonians were not here or not old enough at the time to be able to evaluate what effect gambling had on the island's lifestyle and economy before it left for good in 1957. I was.In … (4 comments)
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galveston: THE RED FLYER WAGON, THE SALVATION ARMY & LITTLE FRED NICCUM - 12/20/10 08:31 AM
The Salvation Army Has Meant So Much to So Many
By Fred Niccum
Special to The Galveston County Daily NewsPublished December 19, 2010
When I was 5 years old, spending half my time on the streets of El Paso and the other half with my mother, brother and sister, I was picked up and placed in Baptist Children's Home in San Antonio.We had no presence of a father in our home. I finally met him when I was 30 years old. I remember when I was with my mother, she would take me and my siblings to a school gym at … (0 comments)
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galveston: DUCKY WUCKY -- AN UNBELIEVABLE SANTA CLAUS - 12/15/10 07:17 PM
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galveston: The Wisdom of Giving Up Things - 12/13/10 08:50 AM
Dr. Melvyn Schreiber is one of my longtime Galveston friends. His daddy was one time the Island's mayor. Dr. Schreiber picked medicine as his life's work while I picked business as mine. But if we set that aside, he and I are alot alike. We both have had a mired of lifetime interests and some new ones, too. Sometimes these fascinations become demons.
He writes about his experiences with having to give up some of those lifetime interests, but not at the willy-nilly expense of adding new ones. -- Bill Cherry
THE WISDOM OF GIVING UP THINGS
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galveston: Gateau au Fromage Artillerie Club -- A Recipe for a Famous Cheesecake - 12/05/10 06:50 PM
The Artillery Club, hidden among massive oaks trees and oleanders on Galveston Island, is the oldest men's private club west of the Mississippi. It was incorporated about two years prior to the Civil War for the purpose of protecting the Island.
Since 1865, the Artillery Club has been a men's social club. Membership is limited to about two hundred. In addition to presenting debutantes each year, the club also has held its own Mardi Gras celebration, including appointing a secret king and queen, since its inception.
For as far back as I can remember, my family, including me, has been members. This … (0 comments)
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galveston: TEXAS PUBLIC BEACHES NOT PUBLIC AFTER ALL? - 11/29/10 07:00 AM
A good portion of Galveston Island has a seawall that somewhat protects its south side from the anger of the Gulf of Mexico. The first part of that seawall was completed about 1902 after the city had been inundated by the now-famous hurricane of 1900 and the rising waters that it brought.
However, there are several miles of the island where there is nothing but occasional sand dunes between dry land and the gulf, and when storms come and the gulf rises most or all of that land is flooded.
But if that isn't bad enough, storms as well as … (25 comments)
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galveston: GAIDO'S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT -- A TRUE TOURIST DESTINATION - 11/26/10 08:26 AM
For 99 years, soon to be 100, Gaido's Restaurant has contributed a great deal to the success of Galveston Island as a popular tourist destination.
It's impossible to extrapolate how many Island businesses have directly benefited by the numbers -- often 2,500 a day -- who have been drawn to visit the city in anticipation to being able to have a meal or two at Gaido's. The Gaido family has just released a well-done, slick cookbook. It tells many of the stories of that restaurant and the people who made it what it would become.
But what is more important, the … (1 comments)
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galveston: PUBLIC HOUSING -- THE MOST ARTICULATE PIECE I'VE EVER READ ON THE SUBJECT - 10/20/10 08:31 AM
This is the most articulate and correct analysis I have ever read about public and subsidized housing. While the author, Stephen Austin's comments are directed to those who live in Galveston, Texas, his facts and conclusions are on the money.
I thought I'd share it with you, with the permission of The Galveston County Daily News.
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By Stephen Austin
In August 1963, I dragged my father to hear Dr. King have a dream in Washington. Later, I worked with the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. I have played other roles in the civil rights movement. My heroes all … (4 comments)
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