Life, Art, and the Wackiest Politician in Texas – Texas Monthly
San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.
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San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.
In Clayton, the WPA put about 6,000 people to work while using dead cows, live sheep and moonshine stills, said Charles Jordan, a local historian.
In the very early hours of one particularly fateful morning in the hot and sticky summer of 1969, six petrified residents of the Texan city of Fort Worth raced for the safety of their local police-station, and related a controversial and amazing story. John Reichart, his wife, and two other couples were parked at Lake