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Bikini Pirates - MOVIES ON TV THIS WEEK
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Bikini pirates is ready to hit the road.
She was only a child at the time, but Bettie Brown’s recollection of the hurricane of 1900 is still retold in vivid detail. She was standing on the staircase of her parents’ Italianate mansion when the waters swept through the first floor, rising and bringing horrible things with it. Some reports would later say that the storm surge washed clear over Galveston Island.
Brown’s mother acted on an inspiration to leave Ashton Villa’s doors and tall, graceful windows wide open to the torrent, and so the only lasting effects the delicate-looking home sustained were a basement filled with sand and a wrought-iron fence rendered forever “shorter,” the bottom few feet buried by the grade change.
This 1859 mansion, now on the National Register of Historic Places and open to daily guided tours, is one of the town’s most engaging survival stories. But other historic houses have tales to tell. The castle-like 1888 Bishop’s Palace and the turreted 1895 Moody Mansion are also on the tour-home circuit and, along with the boutique-filled buildings of the Strand National Historic Landmark district a few blocks away, they keep Galveston at the forefront of Victorian destinations.
That’s probably not the image most of the nation expects at the mention of Texas, let alone Galveston.
Galveston’s gulf-side beaches are the main reason spring-breakers and families vacation here. Many more come to embark from the port of Galveston on weeklong cruises to the Caribbean. ÀôÀ But unlike many modern seaside communities, Galveston isn’t a master-planned resort. Its attractions sprang from the convergence of history, industry, philanthropy and that awful storm.
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November 1st, 2007 at 5:16 am
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