Rambling Boy

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.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 9m. Bisher sind 159 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 hours 9 minutes

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Dr Paul Will – The Sausage King of the Big Bend


On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn talks about his experience with Dr. Paul Will, Professor Emeritus of Animal  Science at Sul Ross State University. Will has been teaching students how to process meat 39 years, including a class in sausage making, which ends with a contest to see who can make the tastiest sausage.


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 February 20, 2017  8m
 
 

Quilts! And the Texas Stories They Tell


Lonn Taylor reads lots of books about history, and recently read one about quilts -- Katherine Jean Adams' Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts. On this edition of the Rambling Boy, Lonn tells us about a few Texas quilts, and what they reveal about both their makers and the times in which they were made.


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 February 10, 2017  10m
 
 

Making America Great Again


On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor lays out the ways in which he believes we can make America great again.


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 February 3, 2017  10m
 
 

The Most Important Office in a Democracy


After the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson found himself the president of a nation with a civil rights problem. While his advisors told him he should not be announcing civil rights as a top priority, President Johnson felt, deeply, that civil rights should be at the top of the agenda...


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 January 27, 2017  8m
 
 

The Rambunctious Robert Wilson


On this weeks's episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks of the rowdy sessions of The Congress of the Republic of Texas...


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 January 19, 2017  9m
 
 

A Bridge in Candelaria


In this week’s episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor tells the story of an accidentally illegal international footbridge running from Candelaria to to San Antonio del Bravo. Though the bridge was originally crafted for convenience, connecting two towns across the Rio Grande, it was later seen as a threat to national security, raising questions of boarder control and wide line where Mexico and America meet. 


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 January 13, 2017  8m
 
 

Thinking About Christmas (Cards)


Lonn Taylor loves Christmas cards -- for many reasons. But he suspects they're waning in popularity and is sometimes tempted to quit mailing them. On today's installment of the Rambling Boy, Lonn tells us a bit of history about the first Christmas cards, why he hopes someone creates a Christmas card archive for future historians, and why he plans to keep sending them out.


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 December 21, 2016  7m
 
 

El Paso Public Library’s Big Bend Archives


In this week's edition of Rambling Boy, Lonn takes us back to the Big Bend of the 1890s through  El Paso Public Library's archive of files from Murphy and Walker, a general mercantile store in Marfa.


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 December 16, 2016  n/a
 
 

Tent Shows


On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes a look at the old-fashioned traveling tent show - in particular, Harley Sadler's.


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 December 9, 2016  9m
 
 

The writings and drawings of an old Texas solider


The first adult book Lonn ever read was The Adventures of General Marbot. He was seven years old. This week on the Rambling Boy, Lonn tells us about the book's author, John W. Thomason Jr -- a widely published Texan whose career in the Marines took him all over the globe and was the inspiration for both his stories and his professional drawings.


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 December 2, 2016  9m