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.
Latest Episodes
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Today on Rambling Boy, Lonn remembers the musical and cinematic legacy of Pedro Infante, an actor and singer from the golden age of Mexican cinema. -
Today on Rambling Boy, Lonn talks about his time on a Texas Department of Transportation Surveyor Crew and the lessons he gained from the experience.
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The Marfa Book Company recently hosted a selected reading of the Latvian national epic play The Golden Horse. The reading honored the 150th anniversary of…
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Lonn tells the compelling, and peculiarly American success story, of Dolores ‘Lolo’ Baeza and the Baeza family. Baeza, with the help of his son Leroy,…
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Last Friday the community gathered together to celebrate Marfa elder Wilborn Elliot's 90th birthday. The evening stretched into the night with a potluck,…
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As Mother's Day approaches, Lonn Taylor reflects on the life of his own mother, Virgina Wood Taylor, who refused to celebrate the national holiday. As she…
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This week on Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor waxes nostalgia about his old girlfriend, Texan accordion player Frances Barton. Barton hails from Czech descent,…
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This week on Rambling Boy, historian Lonn Taylor regales us with stories of Bob Hinkle. Hinkle worked as James Dean’s dialogue coach on the 1956 movie…
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This week on Rambling Boy, historian Lonn Taylor recounts the life of Texas cowboy and Alpine resident, John D. Young, and the disputed authorship of his…
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When Lonn Taylor visited the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera 30 years ago it was itself an aging relic -- the type of building where you thought you…