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The development of a short historic film about Mercer Street in Dripping Springs, TX. The Request The Dr. Pound Historic Farmstead reached out to me in the spring of 2020 asking if I could produced some sort of video about … Continue reading “Historic Mercer Street Video Tour” →
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area in Newport, OR. The designation of various ‘types’ of park rangers introduced me to the idea of interpretation and the puzzling concept of a variety of park ranger. In the fall of 2017, just after … Continue reading “Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area” →
1850-1920 Texas Frontier Site in Dripping Springs, TX. Material evidence ranges in date from the mid 19th century to the late 1920’s. The site is open to the public as a restaurant, bar, and distillery. Visit Treat Oak Distilling to … Continue reading “Ghost Hill Artifacts” →
What is Ghost Hill Ranch? Treaty Oak Distillery sits on historic land that friends and family lovingly call, “The Ranch,” derived from Ghost Hill Ranch. It is a name with mysterious origins given to the site over a hundred years … Continue reading “Historic Ghost Hill Ranch” →
The walker and the writer, they are typically two different things, but in the case of researching written works of long walks, one must take into account characteristics that make up both walkers and writers in order to effectively examine … Continue reading “Walking Long – Writing Long” →
Hey, about that whiskey… Another letter found in my late uncle’s collection-this one much less formal and addressed to a familiar correspondent that gets right to the point: Whiskey. More specifically, Browns Rye, which is likely Old Forester, the first … Continue reading “A Whiskey Letter – 1893, NY” →
What’s in the box? My late uncle was a philatelist, a stamp collector. I recently went through a few boxes with the burned remains of his collection to reorganize and preserve what I could. To my surprise I found a … Continue reading “Dear Sir:- An 1874 Job Search in Texas” →