Lovin' That Lone Star Flag
Lovin' That Lone Star Flag

Author: E. Joe Deering

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2009-09-21

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1603441484

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Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and E. Joe Deering has the pictures to prove it. In Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag, photographer Deering has collected more than a hundred of his favorite images, showing state-flag-adorned pickup trucks, belt buckles, hang gliders, rooftops, and more. Starting when he was a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle, Deering began noticing, as he toured the state on various assignments, how often he saw the image of the Texas flag painted on buildings, vehicles, barn doors, and other places. His curiosity led to an idea for a photographic essay, published by the Chronicle, and this in turn resulted in an exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station of his “flagotography.” Paired with Deering’s lively captions recording the circumstances and locations of these uniquely Texan creations as well as former Chronicle colleague Ruth Rendon’s introduction of Deering and his work, these striking photographs capture Texans’ infectious enjoyment of their state symbol on land, on water, and in the air. Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag will bring a smile to your face. It might even get you in the mood for a little Texas Two-Step. . . .

A Journey Round My Room
A Journey Round My Room

Author: Xavier de Maistre

Publisher:

Published: 1871

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was 27 years old, and a soldier in the army of the Sardinian Kingdom, which covered swathes of modern-day Northern Italy and Southern France. He was placed under house-arrest in Turin for fighting an illegal duel. It was during the 42 days of his confinement here that he wrote the manuscript that would become Voyage autour de ma chambre. Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne, with their digressive and colloquial style, de Maistre decided to make the most of his sentence by recording an exploration of the room as a travel journal. de Maistre’s book imbues the tour of his chamber with great mythology and grand scale. As he wanders the few steps that it takes to circumnavigate the space, his mind spins off into the ether. It parodies the travel journals of the eighteenth-century (such as A Voyage Around the World by Louis de Bougainville, 1771), and could be read today as an early take on the modern vogue for “psychogeography” — each tiny thing that he encounters sends de Maistre into rhapsodies, and mundane journeys become magnificent voyages.

Parking Lot Birding
Parking Lot Birding

Author: Jennifer L. Bristol

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 162349852X

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Texas boasts greater bird diversity than almost any state, with more than six hundred species living in or passing through during spring and fall migrations. Jennifer L. Bristol’s Parking Lot Birding speaks to people who would love to observe a wide variety of birds in easy access locations that don’t require arduous hikes or a degree in ornithology. As she explains, “I have personally trudged down hundreds of miles of trails in Texas, loaded down with gear, searching for birds, only to return to the parking lot to find what I was looking for.” Drawing on her experience as a former park ranger and lifelong nature enthusiast, Bristol explores ninety birding locations that are open to the public and accessible regardless of ability or mobility. Divided by geography, with each of the nine sections centered on a large urban area or defined ecoregion, Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas will take readers to birds in locales from the busy heart of Dallas to the remote Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge in the plains north of Lubbock. Each birding stop includes the name and address of a specific birding location, number of species that have been recorded, and types of birding amenities offered. Locational accounts end with a “Feather Fact” that provides interesting and relevant details about selected birds in a particular region. You never know what you might see when on the beaten path, especially in a state as big and ecologically diverse as Texas. So grab your binoculars and let’s go birding!

Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest
Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest

Author: John R. Erickson

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780141303871

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Lost: one little boy When Little Alfred runs away from home and winds up in the Dark Unchanted Forest being trailed by a bobcat, Hank the Cowdog knows that it's up to him to save his young master. So, mustering up all the courage that a Head of Ranch Security can come up with, he bravely makes his way into the forest. But before long, Hank is even more lost than Alfred. Can he find his master and get them both out of the woods? Or is he destined to pass the rest of his days going in circles? Find out in this thrilling adventure starring everyone's favorite cowdog.

The Bankhead Highway in Texas
The Bankhead Highway in Texas

Author: Dan L. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780615916613

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A history of the Bankhead National Highway, America's first all-weather transcontinental highway, and a guide to the earliest route across Texas (1921).

POTTSBORO TEXAS and LAKE TEXOMA, Then and Now Volume TWO
POTTSBORO TEXAS and LAKE TEXOMA, Then and Now Volume TWO

Author: Natalie Bauman

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781515326946

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CONTENTS:1. THE TEXAS NURSERY - ONE OF THIS AREA'S LARGEST EMPLOYERS Pages 4-412. THE WAY THINGS WERE IN POTTSBORO Pages 42-693. WILLOW SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST, PIONEER CHURCH Pg 70-864. THE OLD COTTON FIELDS OF HOME Pages 87-995. THE PEOPLE OF POTTSBORO Pages 100-1306. IN THE NEWS AROUND POTTSBORO AND ON THE LAKE Pages 131-2277. FIELD IN SOUTH POTTSBORO BECOMES SITE OF AVIATION HISTORY Pages 228-2428. POTTSBORO AREA CATASTROPHES IN THE NEWS Pages 243-2649. LAKE TEXOMA AND THE DENISON DAM IN THE NEWS Then and Now Pages 265-297

Spirit
Spirit

Author: Anthony Head

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1623497108

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As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the amputation of his right forearm—including his painting hand—Treviño enrolled in San Antonio College, determined to learn how to draw and paint with his left hand. In 1974 he produced the impressive La Historia Chicana, a one hundred-foot-long work embracing six centuries of Mexican American heritage now on display inside the Sueltenfuss Library at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Since then, Treviño has completed many more paintings and public artworks, including Spirit of Healing, the nine-story hand-cut tile mosaic that graces Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in downtown San Antonio. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Anthony Head’s sensitive and elegant biography now offers readers an intimate view of the artist’s life. Head captures Treviño’s determination, artistic vision, and the deep pride in his Chicano heritage that he transmits to the world through his creations. Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño promises to engage and inspire readers with its vivid portrayal of this triumph of art and the human spirit.

Carry Out, Carry On
Carry Out, Carry On

Author: Jon Bonnell

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781098392413

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"Carry Out, Carry On" is a must-read book that shares incredible journey of a chef and restaurant owner through the chaotic pandemic of 2020. Throughout his book, Chef Jon Bonnell journals the struggles, sadness, perseverance, and unprecedented happenings through the eyes of an insider in the foodservice business. Throughout this unforgettable book, Bonnell leads readers step by step through the hardships of 2020. The pandemic has impacted everyone in some manner, so his experience is unique, but also deeply relatable. Regardless of your industry, this is an essential read filled with wild stories, unfathomable struggles, family challenges, and a steadfast desire to come through this unique time stronger on the other side.

Lake/Flato
Lake/Flato

Author: Don Fluckinger

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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In this contribution to the ongoing debates over theorizing state power, the author draws on her fieldwork in Mexico to examine the ways in which local agrarian communities negotiate with the state and with local bureaucracies in an apparently hopeless round of mismanagement and corruption - which yet contains a self-correcting stability. While the ethnography focuses on a particular community at a time of transition, the author draws out the wider implications in ways that should be of interest not only to anthropologists concerned with Mexican ethnography, but also to students of political anthropology, more generally, and development studies.