Mid Tex Mod: East Austin History Walk and Talk (April 15)
Mid Tex Mod: East Austin History Walk and Talk (April 15)
The Home of J. Mason Brewer, Texas’ Zora Neale Hurston
Texas had their own Zora Neale Hurston, but who knows his name, remembers where he lived? During my work on the Austin Historical Survey Wiki Project, I came across this home in East Austin. You’d pass it or see it and think it was simply an eyesore, a casualty of urban neglect. There’s no roof…
“Robert L. Smith… was the guy that was taking Booker T. Washington’s ideas and applying them to Texas,”
“Robert L. Smith… was the guy that was taking Booker T. Washington’s ideas and applying them to Texas,” The Farmers Improvement Society boarding school is the student body photographed outside the school building.
History of Former Black Enclave Ignored as Sugar Land Develops Imperial Sugar Complex
Mayfield Park residents speak up about Imperial development worries – Your Houston News: News: Residents of the Mayfield Park subdivision, one of the oldest and most famous neighborhoods in Sugar Land, feel ignored. It was once home to MR Wood, the segregated school made available to Imperial Sugar Workers. A great pictorial overview of Mayfield…
Extending our useful lives: Being honest about sustainability and mortality
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This is a “Before I die…” board. Another ingenious project from Ted Fellow Candy Chang. It is a wonderful, sublime, yet sobering attempt to jolt people from the mundanity of their everyday lives and alienation from place to address a core question, what mark…
East Austin Gentrification 101
Wonderful grassroots video. I love the informal survey at the beginning…so very Austin. I never thought the word “interesting” was such a politically loaded word until I saw this video. I still think all of these $270,000 condos will be future tenements once the next round of gentrification occurs 10 years from now and people…