It is so much fun to work with the museum, especially when somebody says, “I don’t know if you are interested, but I just found a (you name it) in a box of old papers”. Heck yeah, we’re interested! We love to scan all things Port Aransas and add them to our database to share [...]
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. [...]
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