Page 2 - Witch Way News Today

        American Cultural Exchange Service (ACES) International high school students are busy creating the 5th Annual Glow in the Dark Haunted Trail for a cause at Maumee Bay State Park.

Wild Cards - Customer Care, Samarkand, Open Season, Littleborough Scarecrow Festival 2022, The Carpenters Experience,...

Has the heat gotten to you yet? When it gets this hot, into the high 90s, we have to watch out for heat stroke! After experiencing a headache, sick to

Natchitoches, LA – On Monday October 4, 2021, Cane River National Heritage Area, Inc. (CRNHA) and Cane River Creole National Historical Park announced month long Fall Festivities throughout October.

♪ >> april 16th, 1836. sam houston and his texas army were just about right here, in front of that very tree. famously now known as the witch way tree. you look at the limbs and say, i could go through that and go to the american border, where i could get more troops m and rest my guys, or i could make this decision, follow that limb, and go to san jacinto, he knew santa ana and his mexican army would be waiting for him. after much deliberation, sam houston decided to finally fight. ♪ san ja...

Second chance in texas. he had a colorful past figure he lived with the cherokee, had a cherokee wife, the governor of tennessee, he had a political life. hes got military expanse with the u.s. army, as an officer. >> after the losses, he wanted to preserve himself for a better day, to find a way the enemy would be at a disadvantage, which culminated in the battle. which sam houston honorably led and began the process. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to san antonio, texas.

Behind me, a pretty famous building. that is the church inside the alamo where the famous battle took place. well talk about this battle in a way you probably before. before we do that, i want to flashback, flashback to what texas was like back in 1820 when moses austin started bringing americans right here. ♪ >> what brought americans to texas in 1820? what was the attraction? >> its a time when people were on the move. because theres opportunity and theres also hardships to escape. what texa...

Running the volunteers, people who want to stay there. colonel travis, the regulars. santa ana thought this was a fight for who owns texas. and he thought it was an easy one. >> he was focused on san antonio. he wanted restore -- his w brother-in-law was the commander when the texans captured the fort. it was a little bit of retribution and pride, coming this way, instead the other road where he would have been able to bypass the alamo, reinforce and resupply san jacinto. >> santa ana moved nort...

Soldiers turned one way, or fired their muskets. >> should them appoint th at pok range come in cold blood. and close here is a memorial. can we take a look? >> shorter. they were burned after they were massacred, just like they had at the alamo, but the alamo had dry wood for the funeral pyre is. they had greenwood here, so fires didnt completely burn the bodies. vd texas army collected them in one spot and buried them with the monument stands today. >> as we get close, we see two cannons. not ...

Mexicans wanting to move that far north. they became free lotteries. >> moses austin had this idea to start bringing americans this way and deal with the spanish. >> what hes offering the spanish, the opportunity is, we can bring you the people that will turn this from the wilderness into a productive area, no longer a frontier. theres not a lot here. and the spanish have been trying for years to establish community. >> mexicans didnt want to move to texas because of the apaches. so they said, l...