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  1. When E 6th St in Austin was a dense commercial thoroughfare in the early 1890s, my great-great-grandfather’s sister-in-law, Bettie Kern, was a dressmaker with Lizzie Lamme (daughter of candymaker D..T. Lamme) in an upstairs shop at the corner of E 6th and Brazos, where the Missouri House stands in this 1866 photo.

    Photo: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, PICA 01971, texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/6753

    #history #HistoricalPhotography #TXhistory #ATXhistory #genealogy

  2. DISCOUNT for ACTORs in the Austin area!
    (There’s also a student discount, available.)

    What is the Flood of Spirits “immersive theater experience”? In a meeting room at the historic Driskill Hotel, we invite you to a spooky fun séance not long after Austin’s flood of 1900.

    Tix and more info at: bit.ly/flosp

    #actor #ATXactor #theatre #ATXtheatre #seance #spiritualism #austin #TXhistory #ATXhistory #19thCentury

  3. I'll be playing with Cheerful Secrets in Austin next month at The Driskill, Oct 17–24, in “Flood of Spirits”, an original, immersive-experience play inspired by actual events surrounding and people impacted by the Austin flood of 1900. Join us!
    More @ bit.ly/flosp

    #theatre #immersive #immersiveart #ATXtheatre #TXtheatre #LiveTheatre #actor #ActorsLife #ActorsOfInstagram #ActorsOfMastodon #spooky #halloween #DiaDeLosMuertos #history #ATXhistory #TXhistory

  4. @HeathAllyn Yep, and now you have me thinking of who all lived in this tiny condo unit (originally an apartment) over the past 50 years. Probably more than a few UT students. Before it was built, what was on this hill in southeast Austin in 1970? Just scrub? E Oltorf and E Ben White ran east toward Montopolis and where SH-71 crossed US-183 to Bergstrom Air Force Base, where B-52 wings drooped. #ATX #History #ATXhistory

  5. “Shudde Bess Bryson Fath, a prolific activist who battled to protect Austin's environment and its energy consumers, died early Friday at age 106.

    “…[H]er indefatigable civic activism, often in partnership with her husband, Conrad Fath, … endeared her to generations of Austinites who loved their green city.”

    statesman.com/story/news/local

    #ATX #ATXhistory #Obituary #Environment