A hand-colored engraving of an eskimo curlew from ‘’Birds of America’’ (1827-1838) by John James Audubon. Courtesy illustration
‘Forgetting is another kind of extinction’
‘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
Islander honored for his part in Mardi Gras revival
The rocker next door
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
Galveston East Ender has a music gig 6,000 miles from home
A local legacy
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
On Bolivar Peninsula, residents celebrate the blue crab
Playing hardball
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
Islander’s book celebrates baseball great Frank Torre
Fly us to the moon
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
Coastal Texans remain at the center of lunar missions
Buckled up
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
Collection highlights the histories and personalities of a horse-loving family
Stomping the competition
Winemakers Gladys and Raymond Haak show off some of the championship belt buckles their winery has won over the years. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Santa Fe winery takes home a championship buckle from rodeo
‘Quintessential Galveston’
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
Islander works to carve out a business by making beach chairs
‘I wanna catch the big fish’
Omar Mancillas, far right, looks up after catching a bull shark while onlookers take photos and admire the catch at Galveston Fishing Pier in Galveston. Once Mancillas realized what he caught, most of the anglers on the pier helped him reel it in. After pictures and admiration, Mancillas released the shark back into the Gulf. Photo by Kelsey Walling