Howdy and welcome to Wies About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. My name is Ken Wise and I appreciate you tuning in to this episode.

This is the second episode in a series I'm doing called

exploring the Texas Revolution and what I've done is worked with some Texas

Historic Commission site managers to interview them about the historic sites they

manage and what role they played in the Texas Revolution.

And if you listen to the episode on San Felipe Day Austin, you know that I'm

leaving out a couple of sites that might seem obvious choices in favor of some

sites that may not seem. some obvious choices when discussing the

Texas Revolution. And also these are being recorded and released during the

2020 coronavirus pandemic.

So there are some restrictions on visiting

as you're listening to this,

but hopefully those restrictions will be lifted.

It's currently April 2020.

So hopefully those restrictions will be lifted soon and you'll be able to, through these episodes,

plan your visit to experience the Texas Revolution maybe a few days or weeks after the actual

anniversaries of the events since the world seems to have been put on hold

for the moment. In this episode I traveled to Washington

on the Brazas State Park to interview site manager John Faylor on the town of

Washington.

Now it was originally founded and it was called Washington

and one of the earliest residents about 1821

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