Laredo History
There’s an expression around Laredo: ‘Six flags over Texas; seven flags over Laredo!’ [Moment’s Notice, January 2024].
Sheri Ulan-Sweet, Bluebonnet EC and Central Texas EC | Lexington and Fredericksburg
Required Reading
We love Texas Co-op Power. We home-school and use a lot of the recipes and articles in our lessons.
Karly Woods | Via Facebook
Some 50,000 people showed up for the Shamrock’s grand opening.
Courtesy Houston History Research Center | Houston Public Library
Shamrock Memories
My wife and I stayed at the old Shamrock Hilton on the last weekend it was open [The Green Carpet, January 2024].
The place was still amazing, but it clearly had a lot of deferred maintenance, making it look a little threadbare—a remnant of a time gone by.
In the lounge, if you ordered one drink, they would keep bringing you more of the same—I guess figuring that everything they gave away was one less thing they’d have to pack up or throw away.
Mike Blanche, United Cooperative Services | Morgan
What Desert?
When I flew from my Southern California hometown into San Antonio in May 1968 for U.S. Army basic training at Fort Sam Houston, I was surprised by a lush, green landscape (plus millions of crickets) instead of a barren desert [How Texas Became a Desert, December 2023].
Even more shocking was finding that the Alamo had been moved to downtown from the countryside where John Wayne defended it from Santa Anna’s forces.
Steve Mallery, Heart of Texas EC | Robinson
On Second Thought
I enjoyed Frederick Law Olmsted’s assessment of Austin and New Braunfels [Appraising the Texas Landscape, November 2023]. I believe he would be appalled at the destruction of the natural beauty and wildlife he witnessed in the 1850s.
Harvey H. Wetz, GVEC | New Braunfels
