By Marcy Mathews Ward Thomas
3-15-1992, as prepared for Terry Stinson and his mom, Virginia Corn
Conclusion [Part 1 was published in last month's edition of the newsletter]
Sim opened the “Silver King Café” in January of 1929. In June of that year, his 8-year-old son, Beany, drowned off the front of the main wharf. Sim closed [...]
Movies you could see at the Port Theater in August 1960 in Port Aransas.
John Guthrie Ford
I once saw the curved north jetty as quixotically romantic: like the curving Karankawa Indian bow, standing against the wild Texas coast. That sentiment waned once I learned the story of this queer structure. To me, it is now a 9,241 foot example of how inept and foolish we human beings can be. [...]
Five treasure stories are told on this part of the Texas coast. Three are true and two are legends; let us begin with the latter.
Jean Lafitte and his crew spent time on the Texas coast. (Factually, Galveston was the Lafitte base from 1817 to 1820.) It is believed that this buccaneer buried a cache of [...]
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