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[retropopcult]

Waiting for the Galveston Ferry, February 1961

[alan-woodyard]

February 29, 2024 - 00121

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[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing US-10973836 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Multiview postcard showing the wide variety of scenery in Texas. Sent to a Postcrossing member in Germany.

[sail-southern]

Time to Build a Fleet!

Let's get a fleet of these on Galveston Bay!

[bibleofficial]

i just want my mother to come visit so bad like is that too much to ask 😭😭😭

[anushkaanu]

Blvd Seafood : blvd pizza | Galveston hotels

Indulge in fresh seafood at Blvd Seafood, located in the heart of Galveston. Book your stay at one of the nearby hotels and experience the best of Gulf Coast dining and hospitality.

[cartermagazine]

Juneteenth, June 19, 1865

On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in Confederate States were declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the south reading small copies of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading the news of freedom in Confederate States. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States.

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.

CARTER Magazine 

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Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea), High Island, Galveston County, Texas.

[engelart]

"clouds over Galveston bay", 2013 by Norman Engel

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

CHARLES COUGHLAN'S COFFIN CARRIED AWAY

On September 8, 1900, a hurricane stormed up the Texas coast, disrupting the sandy soil of the Galveston cemetery and sending a lead-lined casket and the lovesick soul inside it out to sea. The coffin contained Charles Coughlan, a classical actor from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Charles had excelled in school and then appalled his family by announcing that he intended to follow a career in the theater.

He consulted a fortune teller to gauge his success and was forewarned that he would die at the height of his fame in an American southern city. The fortune teller also warned him that he would have no rest until he returned to the place of his birth. The prediction made an impression on him, and he repeated it frequently to friends.

In 1899 Charles was with an acting troupe in Galveston, Texas, when he collapsed and unexpectedly died. He was buried in Galveston, and shortly after the interment, the tempest took the casket away. The helpful waters of the Gulf Stream floated his coffin from Galveston, along the Atlantic seaboard, and deposited it at Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island. The journey was 2,000 miles long. It is said that just over eight years after the hurricane some fishermen discovered the huge box, covered with moss and barnacles, floating in the shallows of the island near where Charles once lived.

A more romantic version of the story has it that the popular actor was estranged from his wife, but had a lover on Prince Edward Island that he could not bear to be away from. When he died, his wife buried him in Galveston. Being so far away from his sweetheart caused his spirit great turmoil and drew him back to his true love in the north.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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Sutro Library has an extremely rare copy of what's called a "pocket" Emancipation Proclamation. This small pamphlet was given out by Union Troops to enslaved people, showing in writing that they were free citizens. Juneteenth celebrates the arrival of 2,000 troops in Galveston Bay, Texas, to announce that 250,000 enslaved people in the state were free by executive order. The Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud so that those who couldn't read (slavery prohibited literacy) would understand the decree. 

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[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing US-9624120 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Vintage postcard with a photo of Galveston Bay near Houston, Texas. Sent by a Postcrossing member in the Unted States.

[sail-southern]

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