Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise.

I appreciate you tuning in today. I'm recording this episode in early April 2020,

which is the middle of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

This pandemic has resulted in some orders restricting non-essential travel.

All the schools are closed for the rest of the year. The college class I teach has gone all online and almost everybody's working from home.

So in the midst of the turmoil, and since we're in the high holy days of Texas history, I thought I'd do a series of

episodes related to the historic sites of the Texas Revolution.

So this is the first in a series I'm going to call

exploring the Texas Revolution. There'll be five of these episodes and in these

episodes I'm going to interview some Texas Historic Commission personnel in charge of some of the sacred places

where events of the Texas Revolution occurred.

We'll discuss the role that that particular place played in the revolution and what you can see when you visit those places.

Now, since we're in the middle of this pandemic, the places that have parks associated with them are still open in a limited capacity

But some of the visitor centers are closed however when this mess is over

You'll know why these sites are important and you'll be able to plan your visit to explore the places where the Texas Revolution occurred.

I want to tell you one thing up front about this series. I am leaving out the Alamo.

The Alamo is so iconic, so special and so complex that it's going to get episodes all its

own that I plan on recording from the Alamo and that will come a

little later. But most Texas Revolution activity actually took place in other

places and some of these places you'll recognize and a couple of them don't

immediately come to mind.

But all of them are interesting and all of them are important.

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