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Before smartphones and Skype, analog phones were the only means of communicating to the outside world. On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes…
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On this episode of The Rambling Boy, Lonn dives into the history of the names of Texas counties and rethinks the naming system altogether. Would West…
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This week, Lonn talks about the French socialist utopian community founded in 1855, just west of Dallas. It was one of a handful of utopian communities in America. Today, all that exists is an old cemetery, surrounded by strip malls and apartment buildings.
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On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn recounts the infamous conflict between James Judson Kilpatrick, the town of Candelaria and the United States Army. J.J. Kilpatrick, as he liked to be called, came to Candelaria in 1906 from Laurenceville, Alabama to teach school. By 1918, he was embroiled in a violent feud that lasted until 1921.
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On this edition of The Rambling Boy, a topic that every far-west Texan seems to have an opinion on - the Marfa Lights. Is there an actual answer to the…
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On this edition of the Rambling Boy, Lonn ponders the reason for the spread of Mexican cuisine throughout the United States - From Arkansas to Wyoming,…
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In this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes us back to the meeting of the Texas Convention in 1836. At this meeting, held for 17 days in an unfinished…
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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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This week on the Rambling Boy, Lonn tells us some anecdotes from Marathon's rowdier past, and that it's rowdy image is no more.
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Why, in 1892, did an Irish immigrant name a Marfa hotel after the patron saint of England? Lonn Taylor tells us the answer -- and the the history of the…