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Preserving Wildlife How many of you anti-hunters have a hunting license, which helps preserve the wildlife [Letters, November 2015]? What have you birdwatchers and wildlife observers contributed to their management? Carl Brockmann | San Angelo Concho Valley EC   I Like Ike Just read Another Texan in the White House? [Currents, December 2015], which lists…

Relative Infamy When I read the article by Stephen Sharpe [Endangered Places, September 2015], I saw the name of a relative in the “Lost” segment. Ben “Tall Texan” Kilpatrick’s great-grandfather and my great-great-great-grandfather were one and the same, so I guess that makes us cousins. I first became aware of this infamous cousin when I…

Descriptive Dobie I enjoyed the article about J. Frank Dobie [J. Frank Dobie Rides Again, October 2015]. In the 1930s, my mother was in one of his classes at the University of Texas, and she must have been perpetually late. She recalls Dobie’s ad-monishment: “Miss Nail, you remind me of a snail.” Linda Wilcox |…

The Doctor Is (Still) In I am a descendant of Dr. Benjamin Crumley [The Old Indian Doctor, March 2015]. My grandmother was a Crumley. I currently do not have access to my family lineage that I have researched that says exactly how I am related. Sherri Hooker | Manor Bluebonnet EC   More Endangered Places…

Giving Weirdness a Shot For several years I’ve been preaching that Angelina Eberly [Prohibited by City Ordnance, October 2015] did as much as anyone—ever—to “keep Austin weird.” Imagine Austin without the Texas Legislature and, most likely, “the university” in all its glory. Perhaps there still would have been a beautiful town where the Colorado River…