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Today on the Rambling Boy, Lonn breaks down he history of President's Day, George Washington's infamous cherry tree story, and a big George Washington…
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Lonn Taylor reads lots of books about history, and recently read one about quilts -- Katherine Jean Adams' Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American…
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On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor lays out the ways in which he believes we can make America great again.
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Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind. The night before, on Aug.…
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In this week’s episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor tells the story of an accidentally illegal international footbridge running from Candelaria to to San…
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Lonn Taylor loves Christmas cards -- for many reasons. But he suspects they're waning in popularity and is sometimes tempted to quit mailing them. On…
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The first adult book Lonn ever read was The Adventures of General Marbot. He was seven years old. This week on the Rambling Boy, Lonn tells us about the…
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Over the last 10 years, there have been two big pushes to collect the oral histories of former Blackwell School students. Both efforts eventually stalled…
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J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and writer often dubbed "the father of Texas literature." Lonn and Dedie recently went to Oakville, Texas for an event…
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One of the items Lonn Taylor inherited when his father passed away was an old belt buckle. It was custom-made by a guy named Robert W. Driskell. On this…