Aug. 2, 2004

Texas State Railroad Offers Kids Free Rides Through Sept. 5

RUSK, Texas — From now through Labor Day weekend, youngsters accompanied by a paying adult can ride the historic Texas State Railroad through the Piney Woods for free.

Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site Remains Open Despite Hotel Renovations

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas — The Nimitz Hotel museum at the Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site-National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg will be closed for renovations beginning July 31. However, all other facilities located on the campus will remain open to the public.

July 26, 2004

Texas’ Wild West Days To Be Recreated at Fall Event

ALBANY, Texas — What promises to be the largest Wild West re-enactment Fort Griffin has ever staged, featuring more than 500 re-enactors, will unfold just north of Albany Sept. 17-19.

July 12, 2004

Caddo Lake State Park To Host Reunion of CCC Veterans

KARNACK, Texas — The men whose hands built the backbone of the Texas State Park System will gather at Caddo Lake State Park this fall to renew old acquaintances and provide oral histories of their labor experiences in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps during the height of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The theme of the Sept. 24-25 CCC reunion is: "We get it done."

July 6, 2004

Environmental Learning Center To Serve Urban Houston

HOUSTON — Construction has begun on the first phase of a multi-million dollar project to build new student facilities and transform former fish hatchery ponds into a model environmental education center at Sheldon Lake State Park in northeast Houston.

Nimitz Symposium To Examine Battle of Leyte Gulf

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas — The Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site-National Museum of the Pacific War and the Admiral Nimitz Foundation will tell the story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle fought anywhere and the last great naval battle of World War II, at "The Battle of Leyte Gulf," the museum’s 17th annual symposium Sept. 18-19.

Falfurrias Students Use Goliad as Springboard to Smithsonian

AUSTIN, Texas — Three Falfurrias High School students took their award- winning history project to the top this summer to compete at the National Championship of the National History Day Program in Washington D.C.

June 28, 2004

Bat Viewing Offered Nightly at Old Tunnel

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas — Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area near here in the central Texas Hill Country is offering bat-viewing opportunities every night all summer through October.

June 21, 2004

Buffalo Soldiers Share African-American Heritage

AUSTIN, Texas — A unique and, until recently, seldom told part of Texas’ frontier heritage will come to life this summer through living history encampments, African-American rodeos and other events staged by the Texas Buffalo Soldiers Program.

Magazine July Issue Plumbs Depths of Texas Rivers

AUSTIN, Texas — A special issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine titled The State of Rivers will hit newsstands and reader mailboxes late this month, the third in an award-winning annual series of July issues covering water resource challenges facing all regions of the state.