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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Rodeo has its roots firmly in cowboy culture, but in this week's "Rambling Boy" Lonn Taylor makes the case that cowgirls also played a pivotal part in… -
This Sunday is Father's Day. Lonn Taylor, the rambling boy, shares stories about his own father. Clarence Taylor started at Texas A & M in 1920. A & M… -
This week Lonn Taylor, the Rambling Boy, reflects on the culture and history of poet laureates in the United States and the United Kingdom. From rewards…
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On this episode, Lonn Taylor explores the true history of the Confederate Flag amid the national conversation that is going on in the wake of the…
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Mel La Follette, an Episcopalian priest in Redford for many years and one of the border's most original characters according to Lonn Taylor, died on July…
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On this week's "Rambling Boy," Lonn Taylor offers a correction -- sort of. Following the broadcast of Taylor's recent show on J. Frank Dobie, John D.…
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Stopping at the Capri in Marfa for lunch not too long ago, Lonn Taylor says in this week's "Rambling Boy," was "like being back in Manila" -- the capital…
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An encounter with a major of the Imperial Airship Marines -- an imagined German military unit that "never existed, but should have" according to the major… -
Windmills are everywhere in West Texas, and on this edition of Rambling Boy Lonn Taylor takes at look at what exactly makes them significant out here and…
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In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines They left the house, at half past nine... The…
