The Alamo: A Perpetual View

Subject: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Thu 01 Nov 2007, 11:38 pm

Below is a wonderful gift to us from cyberspace and the website of Presidio La Bahia. Not only are many other links provided there through which to discover the history of our state, but also access to a web camera which photographs the Alamo .... at all hours of the day and night. Many probably are acquainted already with this online image, but I thought that it would be important to include it here.

http://www.presidiolabahia.org/links.htm

A link to a live-view of the Capitol building in Austin may also be found on this web-page, but it doesn't appear to have been refreshed in quite some time.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Fri 02 Nov 2007, 3:12 pm

This is nice, no we didn't know about it. Look at all the people visiting.

Madeline

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Sat 03 Nov 2007, 1:27 pm

Now how is this suppose to work?

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Sat 03 Nov 2007, 1:28 pm

No scrach that. I got it.

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Sun 04 Nov 2007, 1:50 pm

There it is. No, I've never been there. The Alamo still gets a lot of visitors doesn't it?

Lindsay

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Mon 05 Nov 2007, 1:34 am

Lindsay ... we have kept this little Alamo view on our monitor screen off and on over the past few days, and it has been so heartening to see the people coming and going in an almost continuous stream throughout the waking hours. I've thought about how the patriots who gave their lives there would be proud and gratified that the visitors come, and that the Texas flag flies nobly above the shrine to freedom made hallow -- once again -- by their sacrifice.

Holly
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Joined : 06 Nov 2007 Posts : 9

Sacred. Moving to view.

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Thu 15 Nov 2007, 5:13 pm

Yes, it is.

Last night, when viewing the live image of the Alamo, we saw that it was lit differently ~ in several colors. Does anyone know if this might be in honor of a special date or occasion?

http://www.thealamo.org/main.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Thu 15 Nov 2007, 5:48 pm

Might the special lighting have been in honor of the meeting of the General Council, which Donald W. Whisenhunt's 'Texas History Chronology' gives as having begun its sessions on November 14, 1835 .... and which is described briefly on this web-page?

http://www.thealamo.org/revolution.html

We will be watching to see whether the colored spotlights again are shown tonight. If they are, I will call the Alamo tomorrow to find out why.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Fri 16 Nov 2007, 9:13 pm

It turns out that the Alamo was lit in multi-colored spotlights, this past Wednesday night, in honor of Diabetes Awareness .... which extends through the month of November.

Does anyone know on which occasions this special spotlighting might likewise be used?

Also, I am in search of a deeper and cited discussion -- concerning the architectural state of Mission San Antonio de Velero at the time of its secularization -- than I have been able to find online thus far. Does anyone have suggestions .... whether to be found on the Web or in print?

Did recently order, 'The Alamo Mission: San Antonio de Valero, 1718-1793,' by Marion A. Habig. Might someone have experience with this book?

Thank you.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Sat 17 Nov 2007, 2:24 pm

They like me down there then

Joined : 06 Nov 2007 Posts : 9

The Alamo glows in spite of the pain of the past. It has been redeemed but in fulness we do not see yet.

Joined : 06 Nov 2007 Posts : 9

Subject: Alamo Heroes Thu 06 Mar 2008, 12:09 am

To those who defended ... those who courageously stood:

Juan Abamillo of San Antonio

Robert Allen of Virginia

Miles DeForest Andross of San Patricio, Texas

Micajah Autry of North Carolina and Tennessee

Juan A. Badillo of San Antonio

Peter James Bailey of Kentucky and Arkansas

Isaac O. Baker of Gonzales, Texas

William Charles M. Baker of Missouri and Mississippi

John H. Ballentine of Bastrop, Texas

Richard W. Ballentine of Alabama

James J. Baugh of Virginia

Joseph Bayliss of Tennessee

John Blair of Tennessee

Samuel B. Blair of Tennessee

William Blazeby of England and New York

James Butler Bonham of South Carolina and Alabama

Daniel Bourne of England

James Bowie of Tennessee and Lousiana

Jesse B. Bowman of Red River, Texas

George Brown of England

James Brown of Pennsylvania

Robert Brown, Hero of a Yet-Undetermined Geographic Origin

James Buchanan of Alabama

Samuel E. Burns of Ireland and Louisiana

George D. Butler of Missouri

M. B. Clark of Nacogdoches, Texas

Daniel William Cloud of Kentucky and Arkansas

Robert E. Cochran of New Jersey

George Washington Cottle of Missouri

Henry Coutman of Germany

Lemuel Crawford of South Carolina

David Crockett of Tennessee

Robert Crossman of Massachusetts and Louisiana

David P. Cummings of Pennsylvania

Robert Cunningham of New York and Indiana

Jacob C. Darst of Kentucky and Missouri

Freeman H. K. Day of Gonzales, Texas

Jerry C. Day of Missouri

Squire Daymon of Tennessee

William Dearduff of Tennessee

Stephen Denison of Ireland and Kentucky

Charles Despallier of Lousiana

Almeron Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Tennessee

John H. Dillard of Tennessee

James R. Dimpkins of England

Lewis Duel of New York

Andrew Duvalt of Ireland

Carlos Espalier of San Antonio

Gregorio Esparza of San Antonio

Robert Evans of Ireland and New York

Samuel B. Evans of Kentucky

James L. Ewing of Tennessee

William Fishbaugh of Gonzales, Texas

John Flanders of Massachusetts

Dolphin Ward Floyd of North Carolina

John Hubbard Forsyth of New York

Antonio Fuentes of San Antonio

Galba Fuqua of Gonzales, Texas

William H. Furtleroy of Kentucky and Alabama

William Garnett of Virginia

James W. Garrand of Lousiana

John E. Garvin of Gonzales, Texas

John E. Gaston of Kentucky

James George of Gonzales, Texas

James Camp Goodrich of Tennessee

Albert Calvin Grimes of Georgia

James C. Gwynne of England and Mississippi

James Hannum of Refugio, Texas

John Harris of Kentucky

Andrew Jackson Harrison of Tennessee

William B. Harrison of Ohio

Joseph M. Hawkins of Ireland and Lousiana

John M. Hays of Tennessee

Thomas Hendricks, Hero of an Unknown Geographical Origin

Patrick Henry Herndon of Virginia

William D. Hersee of New York

Tapley Holland of Ohio and Texas

Samuel Holloway of Pennsylvania

William D. Howell of Massachusetts

William Daniel Jackson of Ireland and Kentucky

Thomas Jackson of Kentucky

Green B. Jameson of Kentucky

Gordon B. Jennings of Missouri

Lewis Johnson of Wales

William Johnson of Pennsylvania

John Jones of New York

Johnnie Kellogg of Gonzales, Texas

James Kenny of Virginia

Andrew Kent of Kentucky

Joseph Kerr of Lousiana

George C. Kimball of New York

William P. King of Gonzales, Texas

William Irvine Lewis of Pennsylvania

William J. Lightfoot of Virginia

Jonathan L. Lindley of Illinois

William Linn of Massachusetts

George Washington Main of Virginia

William T. Malone of Georgia

William Marshall of Tennessee and Arkansas

Albert Martin of Tennessee

Edward McCafferty of San Patricio, Texas

James McCoy of Gonzales, Texas

William McDowell of Pennsylvania

James McGee of Ireland

John McGregor of Scotland

Robert McKinney of Ireland

Eliel Melton of South Carolina

Thomas R. Miller of Virginia

William Mills of Tennessee and Arkansas

Isaac Millsaps of Mississippi

Edward F. Mitchusson of Kentucky

Edwin T. Mitchell of Georgia

Napoleon B. Mitchell, Hero of an Unknown Geographical Origin

Robert B. Moore of Virginia

William Moore of Mississippi and Arkansas

Robert Musselman of Ohio

Andre Nava of San Antonio

George Neggan of South Carolina

Andrew M. Nelson of Tennessee

Edward Nelson of South Carolina

James Northcross of Virginia

James Nowlin of Ireland

George Pagan of Mississippi

Christopher Parker of Mississippi

William Parks of San Patricio, Texas

Richardson Perry of Texas

Amos Pollard of Massachusetts and New York

John Purdy Reynolds of Pennsylvania

Thomas H. Roberts, Patriot from and Unknown Location

James Robertson of Tennessee

Isaac Robinson of Scotland

James M. Rose of Virginia and Tennessee

Jackson J. Rusk of Ireland

Joseph Rutherford of Kentucky

Isaac Ryan of Lousiana

Mial Scurlock of North Carolina and Louisiana

Marcus L. Sewell of England

Manson Shied of Georgia

Cleveland Kinloch Simmons of South Carolina

Andrew H. Smith of Tennessee

Charles H. Smith of Maryland

Joshua G. Smith of North Carolina and Tennessee

William H. Smith of Nacogdoches, Texas

Richard Starr of England

James E. Stewart of England

Richard L. Stockton of Virginia

A. Spain Summerlin of Tennessee and Arkansas

William E. Summers of Tennessee

William D. Sutherland of Alabama

Edward Taylor of Liberty, Texas

George Taylor of Liberty, Texas

James Taylor of Liberty, Texas

William Taylor of Tennessee

B. Archer M. Thomas of Kentucky

Henry Thomas of Germany

Jesse G. Thomson of Arkansas

John W. Thomson of North Carolina and Tennessee

John M. Thurston of Pennsylvania and Kentucky

Burke Trammel of Ireland and Tennessee

William Barret Travis of South Carolina and Alabama

George W. Tumlinson of Missouri

Asa Walker of Tennessee

Jacob Walker of Nacogdoches, Texas

William B. Ward of Ireland

Henry Warnell of Arkansas

Joseph G. Washington of Tennessee

Thomas Waters of England

William Wells of Georgia

Isaac White of Kentucky

Robert White of Gonzales, Texas

Hiram J. Williamson of Pennsylvania

David L. Wilson of Scotland

John Wilson of Pennsylvania

Antony Wolfe of England

Claiborne Wright of North Carolina,

and Charles Zanco of Denmark ~

... Thank You.

-- from the heirs of the freedom for which you fought -- in the Land of the Lone Star.

1836 - 2008
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: The Alamo: A Perpetual View Thu 06 Mar 2008, 1:54 pm

Are those all the soldiers that died? I found this on the other site.

"If they overpower us, we fall a sacrifice at the shrine of our country, and we hope posterity and our country will do our memory justice."

Colonel William Barrett Travis

The Alamo - February 25, 1836

I see it's raining in SA but we've got a little snow.