Rambling Boy
The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis.
Taylor was a writer and historian who moved to the Big Bend after retiring from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.
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The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor. Lonn discusses the 1st annual Terlingua Chili Cook-off,… -
The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor. This week, Lonn ties up more loose ends from previous… -
The star, the stable, the shepherds, the angels, and the baby Jesus are a story that has been told for two thousand years in as many ways as mankind can…
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This week, Lonn remembers his friend Bryan Woolley, the Fort Davis author of Time and Place, a novel "set in a thinly disguised Fort Davis." As the writer…
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Today on Rambling Boy, Lonn remembers the Battleship Texas, a veteran of both World Wars originally commissioned in 1914. Today, the Battleship Texas is a…
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On today's Rambling Boy, Lonn discusses the third wave of coffee shops. After learning about ever-evolving coffee culture from Robert Gungor, musician and…
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This week Lonn tells the story of how Rosengren's Books at the Crockett Hotel in San Antonio became the "intellectual center of San Antonio and south…
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A few weeks ago, Lonn and his wife, Didi, spent a morning at the Webb Art Gallery in Waxahachie, TX. The Webbs are dealers in folk art, or "outsider art,"…
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While driving cattle to Colorado, Texas rancher Charles Goodnight caught sight of the American Buffalo. Taken with the animal and knowing it was…
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This week on Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor proves the old timey general store lives on by visiting with Kevin and Karen Bark at their thriving general store,…
