Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2015

Murphy's Law


Audie Murphy is a native Texan who went on to be one of the most decorated soldiers of World War II and later became a movie star.  He lived an incredibly interesting life which is chronicled (among many other things) in an East Texas museum.


We visited the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville, TX for an all new episode of East Texas Explorer:


Tuesday, June 11, 2013

High Noon

Downtown Grapevine, TX has loads of shops, restaurants and historic attractions.  As of 2012, they also have their own glockenspiel clock.  Instead of yodelers or cuckoos, this one has gun fighting and train robbing cowboys.  You can find the cowpokes making four daily appearances at the Cotton Belt Hotel Clock Tower (which is also home to the Grapevine Convention & Visitors Bureau):


There is more than one outcome to the gunfight so it may be different depending on when you see it.  Here's what we saw on a Saturday at High Noon: