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The quiet time
By Forest Riggs Recently a friend in North Carolina wrote and asked, “So what’s going on in Galveston this time of year?†My hasty response was short and sweet: “Nothing!â€
ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
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A New Year with 2020 vision
By Forest Riggs Finally, the New Year has arrived. With Thanksgiving and Christmas well behind us, New Year’s Eve came along and gave cause for great celebration. Millions gathered and
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Like Sand Through the Hourglass
| So long, 2019 and welcome, 2020. “2020 has got to better than 2019†By Forest Riggs Can you believe it? Seems like in the blink of an eye, 2019
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MYGA | Make the Yuletide Gay Again
By Forest Riggs I say, MYGA! Well, why not? It seems everybody is making something again and stamping it on baseball caps and T-shirts. Too bad the idea has to
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The Dickens, you say!
By Forest Riggs Forget about all of Turkey Day’s rich foods and the celebratory drinks. From cornbread stuffing to pumpkin and sweet potato pie, slabs of pecan pie and loads
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Rally, boys! Rally!
By Forest Riggs My, how time flies! It seems like just yesterday that the Island was in the midst of an unending heat wave that kept all but the devoted
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Galveston welcomes nice November
By Forest Riggs Halloween, with all its witches and hollow-weenied goblins, came and went. The Island was full of party-going revelers, costume contests and ghost tours. It was not an
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An island full of Halloween spirits
By Forest Riggs Gosh, it is that time of year again, when most folks dust off old ghost stories and share new ones. Galveston, long known as a “Ghost Capitalâ€
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Hold the water, bring on the shoes!
By Forest Riggs Just when folks were finally able to get back into their Hurricane Harvey damaged homes, the bottom fell out and along came a Tropical Storm named Imelda.
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Pumpkin spice, sweat, hurricanes and world upside down
By Forest Riggs Where to begin? September is about half over, I’m a year older, storms keep crawling off the coast of Africa, the heat will not let up and