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
Dr. Adventure
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
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