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
Galveston author Cornelius Geary Geary recently published a collected transcript of an interview with Frank Torre, a former first baseman for the Milwaukee Braves and the brother of Joe Torre, in a new book “All Heart: The Baseball Life of Frank Torre.” Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Blaine Brown, deputy for the Orion crew and service module at Lockheed Martin, talks about NASA’s next step in space exploration at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Western belt buckles belonging to Will Wright, chief creative officer at the Galveston Historical Foundation, and his family are a testament to his family’s love of riding and Western sports. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Winemakers Gladys and Raymond Haak show off some of the championship belt buckles their winery has won over the years. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Frank Maceo sits on a beach chair in his workshop on Galveston’s East End. Maceo makes colorful, classic beach chairs for anyone who orders from him. Photo by Kelsey Walling