(Lecture: January 13, 2025) As part of the Museum’s 2025 Winter Lecture Series, talks about several unique female characters that distinguished themselves in our history as playing outstanding roles in the perseverance and development of our community.About Mark...
(Lecture: January 6, 2025) As part of the Museum’s 2025 Winter Lecture Series, Keith Farley, speaks about the history of the Farly family. The Farleys arrived in America on the third ship after the Mayflower in the early 1600s. As they made their way south to Florida,...
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Pam Wheat Stranahan spoke on February 19, 2024, about the beginning and growth of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute.About Sally Palmer Sally Palmer is the Assistant Director of Communications and...
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Pam Wheat Stranahan spoke on February 5, 2024, about towns that lined Copano Bay in the 1830s through the 1880s. Ships sailed the natural channel from Aransas Pass to Copano Bay, which provided water transport for...
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Capt. Dee Wallace, a global sportfishing captain that has set over 10 world records, explores the history of sportfishing and sport boats from the most modern to those built by the Farley Brothers in 1915.About Capt....
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Tim Seiter provides a general overview of the Karankawa peoples from their inception as a culture in the thirteenth century to the present day. Significantly, this presentation rectifies various myths attached to the...
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Mark Creighton spoke on January 8 about the contributions of one particular family in Texas history from the empresario times to the late 20s and early 30s in Port Aransas — and how one man helped Port Aransas...
As part of the Museum’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series, Anthony Soto spoke on February 12, 2024, about the Coast Guard in Port Aransas.