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| fiesta history san antonio: Inventing the Fiesta City Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, 2016-03-17 The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Battle of the Alamo Ben H. Procter, 2013-03-15 The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Alamo Story Dean Kirkpatrick, 2011-10-10 Are you going to the Alamo? Read this book first, then take it with you to see and remember it all. Most visitors just see the Alamo compound, where it ended, but the 1836 siege and battle took place all over the city. The Alamo Story and Battleground Tour is the first Alamo history book that tells the story at the places throughout San Antonio where Alamo events actually happened. This book combines an Alamo history from 1685 to 1836 with a self-guided tour. The places on the tour may be experienced through the pictures in the book or by following the maps and directions the book provides and actually walking the ground where the Alamo heroes walked. Covering a distance of about two miles, much of it along the San Antonio River Walk, the written history and self-guided tour take you to the locations of: Davy Crockett's ashes, Jim Bowie's river palace, General Santa Anna's death flag, the Cos surrender house, La Villita, the forbidden footbridge, the Old Mill Ford, Jim Bowie's wedding in 1831, and many others. It was a really interesting concept on that book and I enjoyed reading it. He did a good job on that one. − Daughter of the Republic of Texas, Alamo Committee Member (Designated Reviewer) We can see that this book was a true labor of love..... − Ann Serrano, Librarian, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas To see the Alamo in a new way, you need to get this book. - Texas Country Reporter Your research and knowledge and gift for the telling of this story is truly a tribute to those brave men who perished at that place and time in history. − Reader |
| fiesta history san antonio: Historic Photos of San Antonio , 2007-08 San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. The actual founding of the city took place in 1718 by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares. The ?River City? is famous for the Alamo and the River Walk, the two most visited tourists attractions in the entire state of Texas, along with Sea World, Six Flags Texas Fiesta and a very strong military concentration. This book follows life, government, events and people important to San Antonio history and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Antonio! |
| fiesta history san antonio: Cornyation Amy L. Stone, 2017-03-20 Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 began as a parade in honor of the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto and has evolved into an annual Mardi Gras-like festival attended by four million with more than 100 cultural events raising money for nonprofit organizations in San Antonio, Texas. At Fiesta's start, the events were socially exclusive, one of the most prominent being the Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo, a lavish, debutante pageant crowning a queen of the festival. Cornyation was created in 1951 by members of the San Antonio's theater community as a satire, mocking the elite with their own flamboyant duchesses, empresses, and queens, accompanied by men in drag and local political figures in outrageous costume. The stage show quickly transformed into a controversial parody of local and national politics and culture. Cornyation is the first history of this major Fiesta San Antonio event, tracing how it has become one of Texas’s iconic and longest-running LGBT events, and one of the Southwest's first large-scale fundraisers for HIV-AIDS research, raising more than $2.5 million since 1990. |
| fiesta history san antonio: San Antonio in Color William B. Thompson, 2004 Flamboyant hues and a bold mixed-media style make for a stunning visual tribute to the city of San Antonio. Quotes and captions accompany over 80 full-color reproductions of paintings by W.B. Thompson, depicting the old Catholic missions, cobblestone lined Paseo del Rio, and the Governor's Palace, labeled the most beautiful building in San Antonio by National Geographic. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Barrio Gangs of San Antonio, 1915-2015 Mike Tapia, 2017-06-22 Barrio Gangs is the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date. This is a sociological work on the history of barrio gangs in San Antonio and other large Texas cities to the present day. It examines the century-long evolution of urban barrio subcultures using public archives, oral histories, old photos, and other forms of qualitative data. The study gives special attention to the barrio gangs’ “heyday,” from the 1940s through the 1960s, comparing their attributes to those of modern groups. It illustrates how social and technological changes have affected barrio networking processes and the intensity of the street lifestyle over time. Intergenerational shifts and the tension that accompanies such changes are also central themes in the book. Few other places are so conducive to such historical exploration as is San Antonio. Street ignobility in the barrio no doubt mirrors processes found in other Chicano communities in Texas and the Southwest. The gang contexts in major Chicano population centers have lengthy historical bases rooted in weak opportunity structures, oppression, and discrimination. This work shows that participation in street violence, drug selling, and other parts of the informal economy are functional adaptations to the social structure; the forces propelling the formation of barrio gangs are not temporary social phenomena. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Festivals of San Antonio John Palmer Leeper, 1983 This book presents a look at the Festivals of San Antonio, featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Caroline Shelton. |
| fiesta history san antonio: San Antonio on Parade Judith Berg-Sobré, 2003 Recounts the events of six historic festivals in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of the nineteenth century, describing each event's pageantry, parades, competitions, and participants. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Fabulous San Antonio Albert Curtis, 2012-03-01 |
| fiesta history san antonio: Inventing the Fiesta City Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, 2008 Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernández-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos. In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to the citywide spectacle of today, Hernández-Ehrisman traces the connections between Fiesta and the construction of the city's tourist industry and social change in San Antonio. |
| fiesta history san antonio: This Calder Sky Janet Dailey, 2011-02-01 From the New York Times bestselling author who captures the heart of America comes the third western romance in the splendid Calder Saga. The great Calder empire stretched across the Montana plains as far as the eye could see. Everyone knew a Calder's word was law and that one day Chase Calder would carry the family name to new glories. But for handsome, arrogant Chase Calder there was also beautiful Maggie O'Rourke, who came to him in innocence and stirred in him a deep, insistent longing. But Maggie was determined to be free from the harsh codes of hard men. And even Chase Calder's strong arms couldn't keep her. Still, in them both burned the raw passion of the land...where even the greatest love must fight to live beneath This Calder Sky. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Tomlinson Hill Chris Tomlinson, 2014-07-22 A New York Times Best Seller! Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families—one white, one black—who trace their roots to a slave plantation that bears their name. Internationally recognized for his work as a fearless war correspondent, award-winning journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name. LaDainian Tomlinson, football great and former running back for the San Diego Chargers, spent part of his childhood playing on the same land that his black ancestors had worked as slaves. As a child, LaDainian believed the Hill was named after his family. Not until he was old enough to read an historical plaque did he realize that the Hill was named for his ancestor's slaveholders. A masterpiece of authentic American history, Tomlinson Hill traces the true and very revealing story of these two families. From the beginning in 1854— when the first Tomlinson, a white woman, arrived—to 2007, when the last Tomlinson, LaDainian's father, left, the book unflinchingly explores the history of race and bigotry in Texas. Along the way it also manages to disclose a great many untruths that are latent in the unsettling and complex story of America. Tomlinson Hill is also the basis for a film and an interactive web project. The award-winning film, which airs on PBS, concentrates on present-day Marlin, Texas and how the community struggles with poverty and the legacy of race today, and is accompanied by an interactive web site called Voice of Marlin, which stores the oral histories collected along the way. Chris Tomlinson has used the reporting skills he honed as a highly respected reporter covering ethnic violence in Africa and the Middle East to fashion a perfect microcosm of America's own ethnic strife. The economic inequality, political shenanigans, cruelty and racism—both subtle and overt—that informs the history of Tomlinson Hill also live on in many ways to this very day in our country as a whole. The author has used his impressive credentials and honest humanity to create a classic work of American history that will take its place alongside the timeless work of our finest historians |
| fiesta history san antonio: New Orleans and the Texas Revolution Edward L. Miller, 2004 Author Edward L. Miller has delved into previously unused or overlooked papers housed in New Orleans to reconstruct a chain of events that set the Crescent City, in many ways, at the center of the Texian fight for independence. Not only did Now Orleans business interests send money and men to Texas in exchange for promises of land, but they also provided newspaper coverage that set the scene for later American annexation of the young republic.--BOOK JACKET. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick Mary Adams Maverick, George Madison Maverick, 1921 Excerpt from Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick Samuel Augustus Maverick, my husband, was born July 23rd, 1803, at Pendleton, South Carolina. His parents were Samuel Maverick and his wife Elizabeth Anderson. She was the daughter of General Robert Anderson, of South Carolina, and of Revolutionary note, and his wife Ann Thompson of Virginia. Samuel Maverick was once a prominent merchant of Charleston, S.C., where he had raised himself from the almost abject poverty, to which the war of the Revolution had reduced his family, to a position of great affluence. It is said of him that he sent ventures to the Celestial Empire, and that he shipped the first bale of cotton from America to Europe. Some mer cantile miscarriage caused him subsequently to withdraw from, and close out, his business, and he retired to Pendle ton District* in the north west corner of South Carolina, at the foot of the mountains. Here he spent the balance of his days, and invested and speculated largely in lands in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Making San Antonio Joe Carroll Rust, 2014-01-06 A history of the manufacturing sector of San Antonio, paired with the stories of local companies. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Other Side of the Alamo: Art Against the Myth Ruben C. Cordova, 2018-12-05 Exhibition catalogue of San Antonio-based Chicano art, from 1971 to 2018. With a comprehensive historiography of Anglo colonization and slavery in Texas, the Alamo and San Jacinto battles, the Mexican-American War, Manifest Destiny, and the legacy of these historical events, particularly for people of color. The catalogue is a fascinating and invaluable historical review of the Battle of the Alamo and the making of the Texas Republic. -David Montejano, Turner prize-winning author of Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986.Cordova not only pulled together an important group of artists to challenge the Anglo-centric myths of the Alamo, he wrote a critical essay systematically destroying those lies with historical facts. ... [It] introduced me to a new world of contemporary art, it educated this fifth-generation Texan and served as a key research tool. -Chris Tomlinson, co-author of Forget the Alamo and author of the New York Times Bestseller Tomlinson Hill. One of the most revelatory exhibitions mounted for the city's tricentennial. -Josh Feola, Artsy.A vital and timely exhibition. -Stephen Oleszec, Hyperallergic.The show is done really beautifully.... this is a really big and important project. -Brandon Zech, Glasstire Top Five video.A deeply researched, historically compelling exhibition. -Nicholas Frank, San Antonio Report.Much like Southerners who developed a 'lost cause' mythology to compensate for their defeat, white Texans developed an Alamo mythology that portrayed the fighters at the Alamo (Travis, Crockett and Bowie) not as defenders of slavery but defenders of 'Texas liberty.' The Other Side of the Alamo offers an alternative to the triumphalist tales surrounding the 18th-century Spanish mission. -Marco Aquino, San Antonio Current.Together, they paint the full picture of what the Alamo myth has done to the perception of Mexican Americans. -Morgan O. Hanlon, Texas Observer. |
| fiesta history san antonio: 100 Things to Do in San Antonio Before You Die, Second Edition Denise Richter, 2019-05-15 For a city that predates the Declaration of Independence, San Antonio has a youthful vibrancy that belies its age. The Alamo City may be the seventh-largest municipality in the United States, but it still manages to convey a small-town vibe. Friendly locals are happy to share their favorite spots for romance, history, arts, culture, nature, food, drinks, and más! With 100 Things to Do in San Antonio Before You Die as your guide, you’ll get a taste of the same ciudad that visitors and natives have come to love. Stroll down the picturesque River Walk that now spans fifteen miles from north of downtown to the World Heritage Site missions in the south, or take in one of the city’s awesome museums. Cheer on San Antonio’s own professional basketball team, lovingly nicknamed Los Spurs. From breakfast tacos through evening margaritas, a fiesta awaits. It’s difficult to find a day in San Antonio without some kind of celebration. Local author and blogger Dr. Denise Barkis Richter invites fellow tourists to join the party that is San Antonio. With her book in hand, you’ll have the tools you need to enjoy America’s best town. ¡Bienvenidos! Welcome! |
| fiesta history san antonio: Goodnight San Antonio Jennifer Gaines Drez, 2013-11 Goodnight San Antonio is a colorful and beautifully illustrated book that captures a child's attention, while teaching them the history and importance of San Antonio. It appeals to visitors as well as residents and is the perfect way to teach and interest children as they travel. It gives a deeper look inside the city's rich culture, museums, sports teams and historical landmarks. Goodnight San Antonio entertains the youngest readers while the nostalgia will charm the more mature San Antonio enthusiasts. |
| fiesta history san antonio: American Tacos José R. Ralat, 2024-08-13 The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations. “Everything a food history book should be: illuminating, well-written, crusading, and inspiring a taco run afterwards. You’ll gain five pounds reading it, but don’t worry—most of that will go to your brain.”—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times “[Ralat] gives an in-depth look at each taco’s history and showcases other aspects of taco culture that has solidified it as a go-to dish on dinner tables throughout the nation.”—Smithsonian Magazine “A fascinating look at America’s many regional tacos. . . . From California’s locavore tacos to Korean ‘K-Mex’ tacos to Jewish ‘deli-Mex’ to Southern-drawl ‘Sur-Mex’ tacos to American-Indian-inspired fry bread tacos to chef-driven ‘moderno’ tacos, Ralat lays out a captivating landscape.”—Houston Chronicle “You’ll learn an enormous and entertaining amount about [tacos] in . . . American Tacos. . . . The book literally covers the map of American tacos, from Texas and the South to New York, Chicago, Kansas City and California.”—Forbes “An impressively reported new book . . . a fast-paced cultural survey and travel guide . . . American Tacos is an exceptional book.”—Taste |
| fiesta history san antonio: Downtown San Antonio Joan Marston Korte, David L. Peché, Foreword by Mayor Julian Castro, 2012 Archvial photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of San Antonio, Texas. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Out of the Closet, Into the Archives Amy L. Stone, Jaime Cantrell, 2015-11-20 The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research. Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privatenessrecognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibilityeach mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and womens and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Being Texan Editors of Texas Monthly, 2021-11-09 The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors. Big hats, big trucks, big oil fortunes—Texas clichés all. And while those elements do flourish throughout Texas, they alone hardly define the place. The Lone Star State is and has always been a great melting pot, home to sprawling cities, trailblazing innovators, and treasured traditions from all over, many of which become ingrained in popular culture and intertwined with the American ideal. In this collection, the editors of Texas Monthly take stock of their multifaceted, larger-than-life state, including the people, customs, land, culture, and cuisine that have collided and comingled here. Featuring essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from the magazine’s legendary roster of contributors, and accompanied by original drawings, Being Texan explores the landscapes that are home to more than 29 million people; the joys and idiosyncrasies of Texan life; underappreciated episodes of Texas history; and distinctive strains of Texan arts and culture. Illuminating, surprising, and entertaining, Being Texan reveals the Lone Star State in all its beauty, vastness, and complexity. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Johnny Texas on the San Antonio Road Carol Hoff, 1984-03 Johnny Texas has more to fear from greedy, dishonest men than from wild animals during a six-hundred-mile trip to Mexico and back over the Old San Antonio Road. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Power Failure Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins, 2004-03-09 “They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written by prizewinning journalist Mimi Swartz, and substantially based on the never-before-published revelations of former Enron vice-president Sherron Watkins, as well as hundreds of other interviews, Power Failure shows the human face beyond the greed, arrogance, and raw ambition that fueled the company’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the new century, Ken Lay’s and Jeff Skilling's faces graced the covers of business magazines, and Enron’s money oiled the political machinery behind George W. Bush’s election campaign. But as Wall Street analysts sang Enron’s praises, and its stock spiraled dizzyingly into the stratosphere, the company’s leaders were madly scrambling to manufacture illusory profits, hide its ballooning debt, and bully Wall Street into buying its fictional accounting and off-balance-sheet investment vehicles. The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums. Among the cast of characters Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins observe with shrewd Texas eyes and an insider’s perspective are: CEO Ken Lay, Enron’s “outside face,” who was more interested in playing diplomat and paving the road to a political career than in managing Enron’s high-testosterone, anything-goes culture; Jeff Skilling, the mastermind behind Enron’s mercenary trading culture, who transformed himself from a nerdy executive into the personification of millennial cool; Rebecca Mark, the savvy and seductive head of Enron’s international division, who was Skilling’s sole rival to take over the company; and Andy Fastow, whose childish pranks early in his career gave way to something far more destructive. Desperate to be a player in Enron’s deal-making, trader-oriented culture, Fastow transformed Enron’s finance department into a “profit center,” creating a honeycomb of financial entities to bolster Enron’s “profits,” while diverting tens of millions of dollars into his own pockets An unprecedented chronicle of Enron’s shocking collapse, Power Failure should take its place alongside the classics of previous decades – Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker – as one of the cautionary tales of our times. |
| fiesta history san antonio: African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937 Kenneth Mason, 1998 This is a study of how paternal race relations in San Antonio contributed to the rise of accommodation-minded African American leaders whose successful manipulation of the political and ethnic divisions provided goods, services and sustained voting rights during a period when African Americans throughout the South had lost such privileges. The unique demography of Mexican-, German-, Anglo- and African Americans; a service based economy of hotels, restaurants and saloons; and campaigns by white civic leaders to make San Antonio the premier commercial and vacation center of the Southwest nurtured a political machine that intended to keep blacks in their place. This resulted in an assortment of Jim Crow laws; restrictive employment opportunities; and segregated schools, parks, and municipal services; albeit without mob lynching and racial violence.This paternal brand of racism resulted in the rise of one of the most powerful black political bosses of his time, Charles Bellinger. Challenges fromconservative white reformers and disgruntled black civil rights advocates failed to dislodge the hold Bellinger's machine had on the black community and the city, until the Great Depression. By examining employment, education, politics, and socio-cultural activities that contributed to the city's unique race relations; the study takes a hard look at whether separate but equal ever become a reality in San Antonio. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy L. Stone, 2012 From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures |
| fiesta history san antonio: Dusting Off a Legend Gaylon Finklea Hecker, 2014-07 |
| fiesta history san antonio: Sí, San Antonio Patricia Hart McMillan, 2020-08-28 Nothing sparkles like downtown San Antonio at Christmastime. Dazzling color photographs take readers on a magic carpet ride to this multicultural city's most-visited events and attractions, extravagantly and romantically decorated for the winter holidays. See popular destinations such as Six Flags Texas Fiesta--a vast amusement park--Spanish Colonial Missions, fine restaurants, historic hotels, house museums on King William Street, and the San Antonio Zoo, which becomes a fairyland at night. Photos are accompanied by brief histories of the sites. An insider's take on the town's merry-making, the book will be a treasured take-home souvenir for tourists and a striking coffee table book for locals. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Juan O'Gorman Catherine Nixon Cooke, 2016 Follows Juan O'Gorman's life and the creation of his mural Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas, a spectacular piece of midcentury public art in San Antonio, Texas, that is one of the Mexican artist's most influential works-- |
| fiesta history san antonio: Greater Tuna Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard, 1983 Two performers portray numerous characters in this stage comedy of life in imaginary small-town Tuna, Texas ... where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies! |
| fiesta history san antonio: Other, Please Specify D'Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt, 2018-07-31 This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research, Other, Please Specify presents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences, insights, and approaches, revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution, all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Big Wonderful Thing Stephen Harrigan, 2019-10-01 The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas. |
| fiesta history san antonio: El Cinco de Mayo David Hayes-Bautista, 2012-05-05 Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time—it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Real Tenerife Jack Montgomery, Anea Montgomery, 2013-03-11 The most comprehensive guide to Tenerife's resorts, towns and villages available in the English language, written with insight and passion by travel writers who have spent years treading the streets of every town and village, trekking along goat trails in the mountains and revelling at fiestas until dawn (all in the name of research). In short exploring the Tenerife that visitors and even most residents never see...the Tenerife which lies beyond the holiday brochures. Much more than just a tourist guide, The Real Tenerife gives you the insiders' view of this surprising, beautiful and diverse Spanish island which lies off the coast of Africa. Inside you will discover: hidden treasures beyond the tourist hotspots, a brief look into Tenerife's past and future, intimate guided tours of towns and villages across the island, personal photographs from the authors' travels, a guide to Tenerife culture and celebrations; hotel and restaurant recommendations; tips on when, where and how to enjoy the island's fiestas and much, much more... The Real Tenerife gives you everything that other travel guides to Tenerife don't. Previously published as Going Native in Tenerife - revised, updated and additional locations and photographs included as well as additional information on existing locations added in December 2012. |
| fiesta history san antonio: The Canción Cannibal Cabaret Amalia Ortiz, 2019 Poetry. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Chicana Studies. Winner of a 2020 American Book Award in Oral Literature. THE CANCIÓN CANNIBAL CABARET & OTHER SONGS is a hybrid manuscript experimenting with poetry at the intersection of performance. As a text, it is a collection of post-apocalyptic prose poems and poem songs cannibalizing knowledge from before the fall of civilization. In performance, THE CANCIÓN CANNIBAL CABARET is a Xicana punk rock musical--part concept album, part radio play. Set in a not-so-distant dystopian future, La Madre Valiente, a refugee raised under the oppressive State, studies secretly to become the leader of a feminist revolution. Her emissaries, Las Hijas de la Madre, roam the land spreading her story, educating others, and galvanizing allies. Inspired by current issues of social injustice, this multidisciplinary musical performance piece is a refugee, people of color, feminist, and LGBTQ+ call to action. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Texas Almanac, 2000-2001 (Millennium Edition) , 1999 |
| fiesta history san antonio: The King William Area Jessie N. M. Simpson, 2017-10-15 For over forty years, historians, tourists, and especially King William neighbors have relied on the 1970s edition of The King William Area for reference, guidance and entertainment, this edition updates, corrects, and expands the original. Exquisite photographs of each house in the oldest designated residential historic district in Texas are supplemented with short histories and architectural descriptions. This narrative historical record is a coffee table conversation-starter and a field guide to the neighborhood. It tells the stories of the houses: their beginnings, who built them, and something of the people who lived there throughout the years. The combined perspective of the authors of this volume span almost 70 consecutive years of neighborhood history. |
| fiesta history san antonio: Fiesta City: San Antonio Out and about Lewis F. Fisher, 2016-04-12 Fiesta City captures San Antonio's centuries old rich celebratory lifestyle. It is a city known for its festivals, celebrations, and rich mix of civil and cultural events. Once the largest city in Texas, from the 1888 San Antonio Fair and International Exposition to Hemisfair in the 1960s, the city has always sought to put itself in the international spotlight. But, day to day, the locals have enjoyed wonderful, if not sometimes quirky, parks such as the San Perdo Electric Park. Featured is the legendary Brackenridge Park, the tenth oldest park in the U.S., complete with the zoo, sky buckets, the Japanese Gardens, and Sunken Garden Theater. Today, Fiesta is still held every spring and has grown into one of the largest civic events in the nation. The centerpiece of hundreds of events is the Battle of the Flowers parade, the second oldest continuously operating parade in the U.S. (after the Rose Parade), complete with Fiesta queens and entries that reflect the colorful, and sometimes surprising, cultures of San Antonio including Mexican and German heritage. Historic landmarks of present and yesteryear abound, including: theaters such as the Majestic, Aztec, and Empire; Hot Spring Hotel spas which attracted luminaries such as Teddy Roosevelt and Cecil B. DeMille; the Spanish Missions including The Alamo; and the San Antonio river, later known around the world as Riverwalk. Dining establishments has long reflected the local character of the city, as shown through a burgeoning Mexican food scene as well as favorites like the Buckhorn Saloon, the Menger Hotel, Earl Abel's, and many others. From inner city car races and Ostrich races to music by accordion and maracas, San Antonio at rest and at play has a storied and colorful history that is reflected through the postcards over the decades. |
| fiesta history san antonio: San Antonio Beer: Alamo City History by the Pint Jeremy Banas & Travis E. Poling, 2015 Brewing history and beer culture permeate San Antonio. The Menger Hotel and its bar notoriously frequented by Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders began as the city's first brewery in 1855. The establishment of San Antonio Brewing Association and Lone Star Brewery at the close of the nineteenth century began the city's golden age of brewing. Decades later, the Volstead Act decimated the city's brewing community. Only one brewery survived Prohibition. Those that bounced back were run out of business by imports coming in on the new railroad. The 1990s saw a craft comeback with the opening of the oldest existing brewpub, Blue Star Brewing Company. Today, San Antonio boasts a bevy of new breweries and celebrates its brewing heritage. Grab a pint and join authors Jeremy Banas and Travis E. Poling for a taste of Alamo City's hoppy history. Book jacket. |
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The Ford Fiesta is a supermini car that was marketed by Ford from 1976 to 2023 over seven generations. Over the years, the Fiesta has mainly been developed and manufactured by …
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Fiesta Mart is part of Chedraui USA, Inc and has proudly served the Texas community since 1972. Today, Fiesta Mart operates over 59 stores throughout the Lone Star State- in Dallas, …
Fiestamart | Fiestamart
Fiesta Mart is the retailer of choice for the communities we serve. Our ongoing commitment is providing the freshest products and the best value for our customers, as well as celebrating …
Fiesta Factory Direct - The Fiesta Tableware Company
Shop for all your favorite colors and styles of Fiestaware® dinnerware and other Fiesta® accessories, direct from the factory.
Fiesta Weekly (6/11/25 – 6/17/25) Ad Preview - The Weekly Ad
Jun 11, 2025 · Look through the dates of these weekly Fiesta ads and choose the one you would like to view. The Fiesta ad this week and the Fiesta ad next week are both posted when …
Fiesta Tableware
To celebrate, we've reimagined one of our earliest Fiesta ads, featuring our new color Linen at the table. Echoing the charm of our original Ivory, Linen blends classic roots with a modern twist. …
Home - Fiesta Auto Insurance and Tax Services
NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO CHANGE TO FIESTA! Our team of insurance and tax professionals can help your family. We offer insurance coverage for your auto, home, …
Ford Fiesta Forum
Jun 1, 2025 · Welcome to the #1 Ford Fiesta Forum and Ford Fiesta community dedicated to Ford Fiesta owners and enthusiasts. Register for an account, it's free and it's easy, so don't …
Ford Fiesta - Wikipedia
The Ford Fiesta is a supermini car that was marketed by Ford from 1976 to 2023 over seven generations. Over the years, the Fiesta has mainly been developed and manufactured by …
Fiesta in Florissant brings music, culture and flavor to North …
14 hours ago · ST. LOUIS — Get ready to experience the vibrant sights, sounds, and tastes of Latin America as Fiesta in Florissant returns June 21-22 to Knights of Columbus Park, …
Fiesta® Outlet Stores – Fiesta Factory Direct
At our Fiesta Outlet Stores, we offer firsts and seconds, as well as other products you’ll only find here. We’re honored to be invited to your table and sincerely thank you for supporting a family …
About us - Fiestamart
Fiesta Mart is part of Chedraui USA, Inc and has proudly served the Texas community since 1972. Today, Fiesta Mart operates over 59 stores throughout the Lone Star State- in Dallas, …
