I didn't get to the blog this weekend. Had to supervise a golf tournament on Saturday for the scholarship fund for the club I belong to. Then, to make matters worse, I was sick (upset stomach) all day Sunday. Sorry for the lapse.Razzberry (from the Star Tribune Crossword Corner) requested that I visit San Angelo, Texas. I remember a wrestler from the old American Wrestling Association named Cowboy Bob Ellis who was supposedly from there. Anyway, here we go!!!!
The photos are: 1) a view of a rainbow in San Angelo, 2) Unidad Park, 3) downtown San Angelo on the Concho River, and 4) Christmas in downtown San Angelo.
Razzberry told me that it is home to Historic Buffalo Soldier Fort (Ft. Concho), 3 lakes, river walks, home of one of Hilton's first hotels (Hotel Catus), Miss Hatties (restored brothel), and Goodfellow AFB (host to all branches of the service). Razzberry highly recommends it as a place to visit when driving through the large state of Texas. Here are some other things about the city (hope there are no repeats):
San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States. It is also the principal city of the "San Angelo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area" that includes all of Irion and Tom Green counties. As of the 2000 census, San Angelo had a total population of 88,439. San Angelo is home to Angelo State University and is considered a major College Town in Texas.
The city is located at the confluence of the North Concho River and South Concho River, which in turn form the Concho River, a tributary of the Texas Colorado River.
San Angelo is also home to the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. During the late 19th century, it was the headquarters of the 10th Cavalry, which was made up mainly of "buffalo soldiers." A yearly Christmas festival called "Christmas at Old Fort Concho" is held at the fort today.
Local sports teams include the San Angelo Colts, a United League Baseball minor league team; as well as the San Angelo Stampede Express, a minor league indoor football team.
Goodfellow Air Force Base is also located at the city's outskirts. The primary tasks of the units stationed there are intelligence and firefighter training.
Mathis Field (also known as San Angelo Regional Airport) is the commercial airport serving the city.
San Angelo's main newspaper is the San Angelo Standard-Times.
San Angelo has three local TV stations: KSAN/3, which is an NBC affiliate, KIDY/6, which is a Fox affiliate, and KLST/8, which is a CBS affiliate. The ABC Affiliate, KTXS is located in Abilene, TX (market 164), but has a low-powered transmitter in San Angelo and provides San Angelo with ABC programming via the call letters of KTXE.
The city is located at the confluence of the North Concho River and South Concho River, which in turn form the Concho River, a tributary of the Texas Colorado River.
San Angelo is also home to the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. During the late 19th century, it was the headquarters of the 10th Cavalry, which was made up mainly of "buffalo soldiers." A yearly Christmas festival called "Christmas at Old Fort Concho" is held at the fort today.
Local sports teams include the San Angelo Colts, a United League Baseball minor league team; as well as the San Angelo Stampede Express, a minor league indoor football team.
Goodfellow Air Force Base is also located at the city's outskirts. The primary tasks of the units stationed there are intelligence and firefighter training.
Mathis Field (also known as San Angelo Regional Airport) is the commercial airport serving the city.
San Angelo's main newspaper is the San Angelo Standard-Times.
San Angelo has three local TV stations: KSAN/3, which is an NBC affiliate, KIDY/6, which is a Fox affiliate, and KLST/8, which is a CBS affiliate. The ABC Affiliate, KTXS is located in Abilene, TX (market 164), but has a low-powered transmitter in San Angelo and provides San Angelo with ABC programming via the call letters of KTXE.
The history of the frontier town began in the late 1860s across the North Concho River from Fort Concho, which had been established in 1867. As an early frontier town, San Angelo was characterized by saloons, prostitution, and gambling. Officers of nearby Fort Concho would not leave the garrison after dark. Shortly after the fort was established, Bartholomew DeWitt, the founder of San Angelo, bought 320 acres (1.3 km2) of land from Granville Sherwood for a dollar an acre and, over the river, established a trading post, which was later called Santa Angela. There are several stories as to how the town was named, including one in which it was named for DeWitt's sister-in-law, a nun in San Antonio. A local historian found that DeWitt named the town in memory of his wife, Carolina Angela, who died in 1866. The name had changed to San Angela by 1883, when application was made for a post office. The proposed name of San Angela was rejected because of the ungrammatical construction. The name should be Santa Angela or San Angelo. The latter was chosen. Oscar Ruffini,qv the architect of many of the early business buildings in San Angelo, arrived in the town shortly after the flood of 1882, which destroyed the county courthouse in Ben Ficklin, the county seat. After the voters decided on San Angelo as the new county seat, Ruffini was asked to design and supervise the construction of the new county courthouse. Ruffini remained in San Angelo, where he was the architect of about forty buildings in the downtown area, some of which are still in use.
Today's Jumble (8/18/08):
PITED = TEPID; PRUSN = SPURN; DANCEN = CANNED; HOGUNE = ENOUGH
CIRCLED LETTERS = EIDSPUANDNOG
What the dietitian did when the English patient lost weight.
"GAINED POUNDS"
Today is Bad Poetry Day and National Homeless Animal Day. The Wizard of Oz premiered in 1939 and Montgomery Ward issued its first catalog in 1872.
Other things on this day in history:
293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1572 - Wedding in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1587 - Saul Wahl was elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1590 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed.
1838 - The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern - Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1891 - Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 - Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1963 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to apartheid.
1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1992 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
2000 - Federal jury found the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1572 - Wedding in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1587 - Saul Wahl was elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1590 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed.
1838 - The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern - Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1891 - Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 - Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1963 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to apartheid.
1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1992 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
2000 - Federal jury found the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
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