Celia Hayes | April 17, 2010
That is just what it was, when the building which is the premier landmark in San Antonio – and perhaps all of the rest of Texas – first achieved fame immortal, in the short and bloody space of an hour and a half, just before sunrise on a chill spring morning in [...]
Celia Hayes | November 16, 2009
Pemberley Remembered, by Mary Lydon Simonsen, is actually three separate love stories and a small mystery, all braided together. The mystery and the love stories are centered around a lovely 18th century Derbyshire mansion; is Montclair the model for Pemberley, and were it’s original owners, one William Lacey and his wife, Elizabeth Garrison Lacy the [...]
Celia Hayes | October 15, 2009
The front of the Alamo is instantly recognizable; almost like a stage set. Everybody knows the bed-stead outline with what would have been a pair of towers on either side, a pair of shell-supported niches on either side of the door, and the window over it … were there ever statues in those niches? I’ve [...]
Celia Hayes | September 9, 2009
Once there was a town on the Texas Gulf Coast, which during its hey-day— which lasted barely a half-century from start to finish—rivaled Galveston, a hundred and fifty miles east. It started as a stretch of beach along Matagorda Bay, called Indian Point, some miles to the north, selected for no other [...]
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