Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas? Your award winning Texas History Podcast, as your host Kenwinning Texas History Podcast.

As is your host, Ken Wise, thank you so much

for tuning in for a little bit of Texas History today.

This podcast is being recorded and released

in the high holy days of Texas history.

So I hope you're participating in many of the events around the state

commemorating the Texas Revolution.

Myself, I just got back from four days at the Texas State Historical Association annual meeting.

I'm very proud to let all my listeners know I was elected second vice president of that organization.

So if things continue as normal, I'll be president in a couple of years.

It's such an honor to be asked to be involved in that association.

The Texas State Historical Association was organized appropriately enough on March the 2nd

in the year 1897. And it has been headed by many many wonderful people.

Our current president this year will be Lance Lolly from Austin, Texas.

Good friend of mine and I'm looking forward to serving with all of the officers

and joining that group for the Texas State Historical Association. You might be

most familiar with the Association because of the Handbook of Texas and now that's

online. The Handbook of Texas online is where you should always start. Your

Texas history research is where I start and you will find tremendous and unmatched resources on that site.

Go to T-S-H-A online dot org and enjoy all the resources of the Texas State Historical Association.

So it's been a big week and today I'm going to do a quick episode and I'm going to follow it up with some more quick

episodes on some of the Alamo defenders that you may not have heard of and we're

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