Happy Birthday, Paul J. Meyer and T. Boone Pickens!
Two well-known Texas philanthropists were born one day apart in the same year–Paul J....
Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson!
You might say Willie Nelson was a boy who was born in the middle...
Happy Birthday, Carol Burnett!
In the depths of the Great Depression on April 26, 1933, a baby girl was...
Happy Birthday, Roy Orbison!
When Roy Kelton Orbison entered his small corner of the world in Vernon Texas...
Happy Birthday, Erastus “Deaf” Smith!
For a quiet man, Erastus “Deaf” Smith‘s name sure pops up a lot! I’ve...
Happy Birthday, Mance Lipscomb!
On April 9, 1895 a son was born to an ex-slave father and his...
Happy Birthday, Jack Johnson!
John Arthur “Jack” Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas to Henry and Tina Johnson,...
Happy Birthday, Lt. Henry O. Flipper!
Henry Ossian Flipper was born March 21, 1856 to Festus and Isabella Flipper, slaves....
Happy Birthday, James Hogg!
(We remember you, too, Clyde Barrow…but not for anything good.) It’s interesting, sometimes, how...
Happy Birthday, Sandra Day O’Connor!
Sandra Day O’Connor was born March 26, 1930 into a ranching family in El...