Inside the Gates is the name of the blog that I recently stumbled across for the DRT library. It is updated almost monthly and shares some pertinent fact to Texas history. The second to last week in April was the annual celebration of San Antonio's Fiesta - a hybrid of street festivals, parades, debuts, and galas. Comparable to New Orleans' Mardi Gras, Fiesta is a time when the entire city comes out to celebrate - public schools are even granted a holiday on the Friday to attend the Battle of Flowers parade, another historic tradition maintained by a different ladies' organization, The Battle of Flowers Association. Like DRT, the BOF group uses the platform preserving and promoting Texas history to honor San Antonio heritage and customs. Another similarity between the two is that they use educational opportunities to get their word out to the public. Every year the BOF holds a citywide essay contest for 7th grade students and an oratorical contest for college age students with a theme that relates to Teas history. I still remember my theme in 7th grade - Barbed Wire: the Taming of Texas. The BOF and DRT are so well known throughout the city because they have such a large member based that is so steeped in history and esteemed in lineage.
Anyways, I got very off topic...the reason for this post is because I wanted to share the link to the ERT library blog. The most recent April post was about Fiesta, so I felt the need to share my account and passion for the San Antonio tradition. The link to the site is: http://drtlibrary.wordpress.com/
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