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Post by Don Guillermo on Oct 11, 2007 19:59:45 GMT -5
Wish granted.. Note the Texian Web Forum. This may be a good place for more extensive announcement on efforts and campairngs to save the Alamo. In addition, as you note Sons…. runs monthly blurbs on such issues of merit. DG Note bene. On a web programming/publishing note as authorship oriented toward hardcopy publication becomes a relic of the past, the Alamo Studies Forum locks one into the new page on the link (back button is ineffective). This may be frustrating to readers launching out of other sites, particular those with frames unless one slaps the mouse hard on "Back." DG
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Post by Jim Boylston on Oct 11, 2007 21:57:20 GMT -5
Thanks, DG, the link is much appreciated. I've been a member over on the Texian Web Forum for some time, though I confess I've been mainly a reader. How do we go about joining the Texian Web?
I'm not sure I'm clear on what you mean. Are you referring to the fact that when one clicks on the link a new browser window opens? If so, I don't know how to change that, but would be open to instruction. Thanks again for the link. I hope it's mutually beneficial! Jim
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Post by TRK on Oct 13, 2007 10:23:56 GMT -5
Stuart will please excuse the further digression from the topic of this thread, but I wish to convey my thanks to Don Guillermo for not only the link, but the prominent notice of Alamo Studies Forum at the top of the Sons of Dewitt Colony homepage.
Alamo Studies may be the successor to the late, lamented War Room at Alamo de Parras, but the Sons of Dewitt Colony website is without peer as the source of first resort for all things Alamo, Texas Revolution, and Texas Republic. Long may it thrive!
Now, about those Celts....
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Post by stuart on Oct 13, 2007 10:50:13 GMT -5
Alamo Studies may be the successor to the late, lamented War Room at Alamo de Parras.... flattery, flattery
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Post by Don Guillermo on Oct 13, 2007 21:53:44 GMT -5
Amateur Texas historian Hobart Huson among the authors to which the Sons… project is dedicated: “This site is dedicated to the in depth study and preservation of topical and regional Texas history, the examples set by those like Carlos E. Castañeda, Hobart Huson, Kathryn Stoner O'Connor, Ethel Zivley Rather and Victor M. Rose as well as those currently preserving and communicating local history” used the term Nordic colonists as a general term to describe generic ethnicity in contrast to Hispanic of what is more commonly referred to as Anglo-Celtic colonists, but it never caught on. [As an aside, it seems that Stuart is earning his place as a modern day version of these greats, amateur topical (rather than regional) Texas history in the tradition of Jack Jackson and Lindley unburdened by the monkey on the back of academic reputation protection]. All flatulency aside, back to the topic of this thread, the attempt to “pigeon-hole” individual Texans (exclusive of freebooters, squatters, and politicians like Crockett, Houston, etc.) into groups based on genetic, cultural and political background is a special challenge and discussed to the point of ridiculousness today for various agendas. The following and I am sure there are more can be used to describe those who were bound as individuals by common principles of individual self-determination, opportunities related to the land and simply to be left alone to pursue objectives of improvement for descendants and community. Hispanic-Texans, Hispanic-Mexicans, Anglo/Nordic-Texians, Anglo/Nordic Mexicans are pertinent. Then mixed with Texans historic two languages, Hispanic-Tejanos and Anglo/Nordic-Tejanos. Unfortunately, as continues even more intensely today politics of central governments (Centralistas in 1836) forced individuals into principle-compromising liaisons to best accomplish individual Texian objectives. Not to mention further breaking out minority contributions based on genetic/ethnic origin that participated in the development of Texas, e.g. “native American” meaning both North and South American residents geographically at some indeterminate date and African by importation as human economic products. A particularly controversial topic of recent interest related to categorization of Anglo/Nordics is the detailed categorization of “Hispanic” in terms of genetic/cultural origin in respect to influence on Texas. DG
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