Friday, September 27, 2013 - 8:06am
By Will Cradduck, Fort Griffin Herd Manager
This is a story about one of the steers in our Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd at Fort Griffin State Historic Site. I call him Old Paint because he’s an old, paint-colored steer, and he reminds me of the old song, “Ridin’ Old Paint and Leadin’ Old Dan.”
One day a couple of years ago, I was about to load Old Paint into a trailer...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 12:08pm
By Will Cradduck, Fort Griffin Herd Manager
As manager of the Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd at Fort Griffin State Historic Site, I get to interact with the cattle quite a bit. It is remarkable how intelligent these animals are. Combined with their natural instinct for survival, this intelligence produces some amazing examples of longhorn behavior—including when they interact...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 11:21am
By Judy Jensen, THC Senior Graphic Designer
Historic preservation and the arts came together most unexpectedly at the recent KinCity Reading Series at The Twig Book Shop in San Antonio’s historic Pearl Brewery complex. The spring reading featured seven poets and a short memorial for San Antonio poet H. Palmer Hall. One of the poets, Janice Rebecca Campbell, read a poem about Fort...
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