The Houstorian Calendar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Houstorian Calendar write by James Glassman. This book was released on 2019-02-25. The Houstorian Calendar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. September 4, 2000, was Houston's hottest day on record, as well as Beyoncé's nineteenth birthday. Sam Houston was elected president on September 5, 1836. The city was awarded a National League baseball franchise on October 17, 1960, and on November 1, 2017, the Astros won their first World Series. On December 13, 1882, the Capitol Hotel became Houston's first public building to get electricity. Tragedy struck on April 16, 1947, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded alongside a Texas City dock. James Glassman captures every single day of the year in the prism of Houston history, from the Texas Revolution to the moon landing.
Houstorian Calendar, The: Today in Houston History
Houstorian Calendar, The: Today in Houston History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Houstorian Calendar, The: Today in Houston History write by James Glassman. This book was released on 2019. Houstorian Calendar, The: Today in Houston History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. September 4, 2000, was Houston's hottest day on record, as well as Beyoncé's nineteenth birthday. Sam Houston was elected president on September 5, 1836. The city was awarded a National League baseball franchise on October 17, 1960, and on November 1, 2017, the Astros won their first World Series. On December 13, 1882, the Capitol Hotel became Houston's first public building to get electricity. Tragedy struck on April 16, 1947, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded alongside a Texas City dock. James Glassman captures every single day of the year in the prism of Houston history, from the Texas Revolution to the moon landing.
Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park
Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park write by Sandra Lord and Debe Branning. This book was released on 2020. Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Visitors to Market Square Park can pause on their stroll through the downtown centerpiece for a palpable experience of its past. Houston's first four city halls laid their foundations here, and relics of the square's heritage remain embedded in the sidewalks of the park. Chalk up a chance sneeze on Milam Street to the final ghostly gasp of dust from Robert Boyce's sawpits. Step from Congress Street into La Carafe, Houston's oldest commercial building, for the kind of atmosphere that even deceased bartenders are reluctant to leave. From the phantom tailors above Treebeard's to the forgotten mysteries of the town's founding, Sandra Lord and Debe Branning resurrect the history humming through the four blocks surrounding Market Square Park.
The: Houstorian Dictionary: An Insider's Index to Houston
The: Houstorian Dictionary: An Insider's Index to Houston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The: Houstorian Dictionary: An Insider's Index to Houston write by James Glassman. This book was released on 2015-07-06. The: Houstorian Dictionary: An Insider's Index to Houston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Houston, Space City USA
Houston, Space City USA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Houston, Space City USA write by Ray Viator. This book was released on 2019-02-13. Houston, Space City USA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon. The first word from the lunar surface: Houston. Houston, Space City USA is a visual celebration of the city’s historic ties to the US human space program. When President Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” he did so from the campus of Rice University. More than half a century later, Houston continues to serve as the nerve center of the American human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city’s devotion to space exploration from then to now. Using striking photographs of the full moon as a visual motif of Houston’s connection to spaceflight, Viator also weaves together historic images to show how former cow pastures transformed into mission control. Some connections are obvious—the Houston Astros or the Houston Rockets. Others are hidden in plain sight, like the arm patches on the uniform of every Houston police officer that read, “Space City U.S.A.” Viator’s lens captures this and more. Houston, Space City USA not only marks the important milestone of the first lunar landing, but it also helps readers discover and rediscover a city’s constellation of connections to one of humankind’s greatest achievements. The author's proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit Houston Public Media.
