Arnold Garza, head of the Texas Pit Stop BBQ team, started competing in barbecue cook-offs in 1989. His team has won five of the first seven triple crown championships by winning cook-offs at the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo, Hitchcock’s Good Ole Days and La Marque Bayou Fest. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Dr. Harold Pine, right, holds the University of Texas Medical Branch colors at Everest base camp with his partner and medical branch otologist Dr. Dayton Young. Courtesy photo
A photo of Gloria Martinez at work in the bullfighting ring. Courtesy photo
Pam and Darrell Apffel have built a rustic country chapel on their land in Texas City. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Trace Menotti, 5, stands beside one of the show sheep at the Dickinson High School Agriculture barn. He will try his hand at mutton busting for the first time at this year’s Galveston County Fair and Rodeo. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
A hand-colored engraving of an eskimo curlew from ‘’Birds of America’’ (1827-1838) by John James Audubon. Courtesy illustration
V.J. Tramonte holds a Mardi Gras! Galveston poster from 2006, the year he was Momus King. He will receive the 2020 George P. Mitchell Mardi Gras Award. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Hasim Camcioglu talks about recording drum tracks for musicians in Turkey at his makeshift studio in his East End home in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Delino Comeaux, owner of Delino’s Bolivar Yacht Basin Bait Camp on the Bolivar Peninsula, tosses a crab trap into the water. Comeaux has been crabbing since he was 16 years old. Photo by Stuart Villanueva