Rambling Boy From Marfa Public Radio

Bill Wittliff; the man who wrote three novels and innumerable screenplays, including Lonesome Dove, The Perfect Storm, and Barbarosa, to name only a few, died of a heart attack in Austin, on June 9, 2019 at the age of 79.

A few rambles Back, Lonn mentioned how in the early 1970, while director of the Winedale Historical Center at Round Top, Texas, he worked with the well known Houston Philanthropist Ima Hogg, who had donated the Winedale to the University of Texas.

In the 1970s, Lonn was the director of Winedale, a historic site in Central Texas that had been given to the University of Texas by the well-known Houston Philanthropist, Miss Ima Hogg.

Over the years, Memorial Day has evolved from a day to honor the war dead into a day to honor all who have served in the military.

Lonn may not have grown up in the theater, but he can certainly say he grew up with an awareness of it.

During last week's episode, Lonn mentioned a story about James Boone and a head of cattle that turned into pigs.

Recently, an Austin Filmmaker by the name of Anne Rapp, who is currently producing a documentary about Horton Foote, visited the Taylor residence in Fort Davis.

In 2018, independent folklorist Jens Lund shared an article from Eater Magazine with Lonn titled The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex, and it inspired him so much he had to talk about it.

Everyone loves a murder mystery, and even though this one is a century old, it has everything: forgeries; poison; a villainous butler; legal tangles; a hurricane; a chance encounter; and one of the wealthiest men in Texas history.

Lonn has recently been rambling through the past, with the help of some five-thousand 35mm ektachrome color slides his father took with a Leica III in Asia and Europe between 1947 and 1955.

All most Americans know about the Liberty Bell is that it's in Philadelphia and has a crack on the side of it.

Marfa is facing a David and Goliath battle of unprecedented importance to the Entire Big Bend.

There's a lot of books about Texas, but not a lot of books about books that come from the Lone Star State.

The Navajo Code Talkers of WWII were bilingual Navajo speakers, specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve as radio men in the Pacific theater.

Dwight David Eisenhower was the first United States President to be born in Texas, but he didn't know until he was a grown man.

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, just in time for Texas Independence Day, Lonn discusses the lives of Sam Houston's sons.

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn teams up with Marfa Public Radio's Sally Beauvais in an attempt to answer some of the very tough questions that have been submitted to Marfa Public Radio's West Texas Wonders project, where you ask questions and we provide answers.

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn take s a look at a book called a The Lost Words.

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn explores the history of immigrants and American feelings towards said immigrants.

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