OK, Texas history buffs, today's your day: San Jacinto Day is being celebrated at the San Jacinto Battleground, complete with battle re-enactments, a mini-zoo and an archaeological dig. Some of the highlights: • At 3 p.m., costumed re-enactors will replicate the historic Battle of San Jacinto (and, we hear, other battles from the Texas Revolution), with period weapons and pyrotechnics. (We hope the re-enactment condenses the day-long search for Santa Anna.) • Sulters, civilians...
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The national media occasionally forgets about everything it criticizes Houston for — sprawl, smog, oil, heat, bugs, lack of topography, Enron — and admits, though sometimes begrudgingly, that our fair city ain't such a bad place after all. The latest such nod is from the AP, which is carrying a story touting Houston as a budget vacation spot. "There's lots of Texas-size fun to be had for less than $20 in the nation's fourth largest...
Texas history just got a little more expensive. Beginning yesterday, visitors to the San Jacinto Battleground will have to pay a dollar to get in — the first entry fee in the park's 123-year history. The fee comes because maintenance and operation costs are rising and the state park system's burget was cut 5 percent for 2006-07, leaving officials with no other way to pay the bills.
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