The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis. Taylor was a writer and historian who moved to the Big Bend after retiring from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.
Why, in 1892, did an Irish immigrant name a Marfa hotel after the patron saint of England? Lonn Taylor tells us the answer -- and the the history of the hotel -- in this edition of the Rambling Boy.