Bill Wittliff; the man who wrote three novels and innumerable screenplays, including Lonesome Dove, The Perfect Storm, and Barbarosa, to name only a few, died of a heart attack in Austin, on June 9, 2019 at the age of 79.

A Talented and Creative Man of Texas Letters

A few rambles Back, Lonn mentioned how in the early 1970, while director of the Winedale Historical Center at Round Top, Texas, he worked with the well known Houston Philanthropist Ima Hogg, who had donated the Winedale to the University of Texas.

The Whole Hog on Imma Hogg

In the 1970s, Lonn was the director of Winedale, a historic site in Central Texas that had been given to the University of Texas by the well-known Houston Philanthropist, Miss Ima Hogg.

Perhaps the Studebaker Joke is Best Told in German

Marfa WWII

Over the years, Memorial Day has evolved from a day to honor the war dead into a day to honor all who have served in the military.

Monroe Slack, Marfa WWII Flying Ace and Hero

Lonn may not have grown up in the theater, but he can certainly say he grew up with an awareness of it.

All the World's a Stage in the Taylor Household

During last week's episode, Lonn mentioned a story about James Boone and a head of cattle that turned into pigs.

A Cock and Bull and Cow and Pig Story

Recently, an Austin Filmmaker by the name of Anne Rapp, who is currently producing a documentary about Horton Foote, visited the Taylor residence in Fort Davis.

A Plethora of Tall Texas Tales from Wharton

In 2018, independent folklorist Jens Lund shared an article from Eater Magazine with Lonn titled The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex, and it inspired him so much he had to talk about it.

Mexican Cuisine vs. Tex-Mex, with Onions, a Must

Rice Univeristy

Everyone loves a murder mystery, and even though this one is a century old, it has everything: forgeries; poison; a villainous butler; legal tangles; a hurricane; a chance encounter; and one of the wealthiest men in Texas history.

Rice Univeristy and the Murder of its Benefactor

Lonn has recently been rambling through the past, with the help of some five-thousand 35mm ektachrome color slides his father took with a Leica III in Asia and Europe between 1947 and 1955.

An Ektachrome is Worth 1,000 Words

The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis. Taylor was a writer and historian who moved to the Big Bend after retiring from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.

All most Americans know about the Liberty Bell is that it's in Philadelphia and has a crack on the side of it.

When the Liberty Bell Waltzed Across Texas

Marfa is facing a David and Goliath battle of unprecedented importance to the Entire Big Bend.

Opinion: Not a C3 Presents Marfa Festival Fan

There's a lot of books about Texas, but not a lot of books about books that come from the Lone Star State.

A Book About Texas Books

The Navajo Code Talkers of WWII were bilingual Navajo speakers, specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve as radio men in the Pacific theater.

The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

Dwight David Eisenhower was the first United States President to be born in Texas, but he didn't know until he was a grown man.

The Kansas President Was Actually Born in Texas

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, just in time for Texas Independence Day, Lonn discusses the lives of Sam Houston's sons.

The Sons of a Texas Pioneer

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn teams up with Marfa Public Radio's Sally Beauvais in an attempt to answer some of the very tough questions that have been submitted to Marfa Public Radio's West Texas Wonders project, where you ask questions and we provide answers.

An Act of Creative Dissent

On this edition of The Rambling Boy, Lonn explores the history of immigrants and American feelings towards said immigrants.

Fear of Immigrants, An American Tradition

Earworm; noun; a catchy song or tune that runs continually through a person's mind.

A Little Night Earworm Music

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