The Texas Tropical Trail Region is hard at work on a regional map project slated for completion before Fall 2011! It will be a spiral bound, full-color book with maps of the 20 county region marked with a variety of attractions, from historical and cultural to eco-tourism and nature related. This map will be advertised and offered for sale statewide.
Click here (http://thetropicaltraveler.com/map/20110621-mapfiles.pdf) for a preliminary peek at the overall map, maps of each byway: Wild Horse Desert, Brush Country, Border and Gulf Coast and a list of attractions in each byway. It is important that we represent what our region has to offer as accurately and completely as possible and for that, we need your assistance. Please take some time to peruse the lists associated with your area and let us know of any corrections, additions or deletions that should be made.
Please return any corrections with the complete address of that attraction and its proper name. This is time sensitive! Please return any corrections/additions/deletions by this Friday, July 1st, to be included in this edition!
Circa 1917
Recently, my granddaughter and I joined the Volunteers from Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum for a tour of Brownsville’s Museums. The Brownsville Historical Museum, next to the Historic Stillman House, was on our tour. We found this Museum to be fun, educational and very well done. In one small corner of this museum was a trunk of period clothes. There was a sign that said something like “Try on our clothes.” My granddaughter, Amy Lees, was fascinated and asked if she could put them on. I commented, that is what the sign says I suppose they want you to experience that place in time. In a very few minutes, she was dressed and wanting me to take her picture. Doesn’t she look like she just stepped off the stagecoach in a South Texas town?
