Chili & Beer Lovers Rejoice!
Chili is one of those things whose beauty, or should I say, deliciousness, is in the taste buds of the taster. Uncle Bobby's hot-as-pavement-in-August concoction may not appeal to everyone, while Aunt...
View ArticleFree Adventures for Tourism Industry!
Artist Boat and Karla Klay, a Togethergreen Fellow, is offering free adventures for those who are working long, hard hours in the tourism industry. Whether you work at a local shop on Strand, a...
View ArticleRediscovering the USS Hatteras
The pantheon of famous shipwrecks is loaded with unforgettable names and tragic stories: Lusitania, Andrea Doria, Edmund Fitzgerald, Bismarck and, of course, Titanic. It’s a shame that the USS Hatteras...
View ArticleVolleyball Voyeur
The music is the first thing I hear. Maybe it's some Jay-Z pumping through the PA speakers. Pulling off Seawall Boulevard into the sand swept parking lot at Stewart Beach, I spot the sea of volleyball...
View ArticleC Shell
Joanna C Shell’s name isn’t a coincidence - her family and friends use her nick-name “C-shell” quite often because of her love of the sea. Like a variety of other Galveston islanders, Joanna has a...
View ArticleTake Wing
There are a lot of things that can attract your attention during a typical day at a Galveston beach. The grandeur of the Gulf. A blissful sailboat drifting by in the distance. The cute girl in the red...
View ArticlePaint the Town Blue
It's easy to walk past the stately oak tree in the front yard without giving it much notice. It's always there; like the sun or Starbucks. Trees are ubiquitous in our daily lives, providing shade from...
View ArticleOffshore Education
They stand alone and isolated in the hazy distance, seemingly smack dab in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Oil rigs, those mammoth and imposing looking structures sitting on top of hundreds of feet...
View ArticleRiding The Conservation Wave
Comfortably resting on your lounge chair, the gulf breeze gently washing over you and a deep blue sky above, it’s easy to take the beach for granted. But let’s not forget that the upper Texas coast is...
View ArticleBathing Beauties on Parade
Take a look at a picture of people enjoying a day at the beach from the 1920s or '30s and one thing stands out immediately: folks wore a lot more clothes on the beach than they do now. Modesty was the...
View ArticleGalveston’s Yearly Foe
Every year in Galveston, just after home tour ends, when the palm trees start beckoning folks from Houston and beyond down to the beaches to celebrate summer’s grand kick off with Memorial Day weekend;...
View ArticleGet Out There
You've finally convinced the wife and kids that going on a camping trip this summer will be a fun family outing. There's only one catch: You haven't been camping since the '90s.
View ArticleA Surrey Built for Two (or Four): Bicycling the Seawall and Beyond
If you’ve ever walked the Galveston Seawall on a sunny and breezy day, you’ve perhaps seen the four-wheel surreys driven by pedal power by two or four people.
View ArticleJuneteenth Lives On
In an age of instant messaging, email alerts, social media and constant connectivity, it's hard to imagine a message as important as the abolition of slavery taking over two years to reach those...
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