Cajun seasoned fried shrimp from Darlene’s Shrimp Shack in Galveston. File photo by Stuart Villanueva
When do we eat?
‘I love my job’
Galveston Councilman and Ball High School teacher William Schuster works a beach rental spot near 17th Street in Galveston. He has spent his summers and weekends in the fall and spring renting beach chairs and umbrellas since he was a teenager. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
These islanders get to make a living spending their days on the beach
They can stand the heat
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
Cooking competitions have gotten to be as intense as a glowing hunk of hardwood charcoal
Dr. Adventure
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
Friendswood doctor combines adventure travel in Nepal with medical expeditions
Breaking barriers
A photo of Gloria Martinez at work in the bullfighting ring. Courtesy photo
Islander’s book explores the daring lives of women bullfighters
Serious surfers
Islanders find peace and fun in the turbulent Texas chop
‘Such a silver lining’
Pam and Darrell Apffel have built a rustic country chapel on their land in Texas City. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Little farm chapel in Texas City becomes a haven in uncertain time
Dyed in the wool
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
These young competitors get an early start to rodeo riding
‘Forgetting is another kind of extinction’
A hand-colored engraving of an eskimo curlew from ‘’Birds of America’’ (1827-1838) by John James Audubon. Courtesy illustration
Lost Bird Project aims to remind us what we once had
‘We didn’t know what to expect’
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