by Bob O'Dell | Feb 19, 2021 | Native and White Americans
Below is a short time-lapse video of the probable Red River crossing site of the Tonkawa tribe when they were required to leave their reservation on the Brazos river and move to Oklahoma in 1859. The footage is shot from a drone that was flown just before sunset in...
by Bob O'Dell | Feb 16, 2021 | East and West Austin
This story by local TV news channel KXAN Austin was published in January 2011, on Martin Luther King’s birthday, the day that we all marched over the J.J. Seabrook Bridge for the very first time. AUSTIN (KXAN) – In honor of one civil rights leader,...
by Bob O'Dell | Feb 9, 2021 | East and West Austin
An excerpt from : O’Dell, Bob, Five Years with Orthodox Jews, (Jerusalem, Israel: Root Source Press, 2020), 290-293. Twenty-seven years after the death of J.J. Seabrook, in 2010, my wife and I attended a fund-raising dinner for the Austin House of Prayer. There...
by Bob O'Dell | Feb 2, 2021 | East and West Austin
An excerpt from : O’Dell, Bob, Five Years with Orthodox Jews, (Jerusalem, Israel: Root Source Press, 2020), 290-291. In 1975, eight years before I first set foot in Austin, a debate raged in the city council about renaming one of the larger streets, 19th...