FALL, 2013 - Austin History Center Association

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Wooldridge Square:
A Second Century
By Julie Weaver
With the commitment of the Austin Parks and Recreation
Department, Austin Parks Foundation, Downtown Austin Alliance and many other community partners and volunteers,
Wooldridge Square will enter its 104th year as a transformed
and vibrant public space for Austin.
Designated in 1838 by Edwin Waller as part of the original downtown Austin street grid, the square spent many years
as an unofficial city dump before being formally dedicated by
Mayor A.P. Wooldridge on June 18, 1909 as the park we see
today. The bandstand, constructed in 1910, put Wooldridge
Square on the map as a focal point for Austin and Texas’ political history. The bandstand has always been a popular location
for political rallies, campaign launching, debates, and ceremonies. It has also been a beacon for music performances with
many Austin residents having fond memories of sitting in the
shade listening to live music.
“The significance of Wooldridge Square is that it is the
only one of the four original downtown squares that has retained all of its historic integrity,” said Charles Peveto of the
Friends of Wooldridge Square. “The bandstand, designed
by C.H. Page & Bro. in 1909, has been refurbished, but
never replaced, and the same holds true for the sidewalk.
Wooldridge is also the only square with three historic designations: State Archeological Landmark, National Register of
Historic Places, and Austin City Landmark. I’m pleased we
are seeing such a significant investment made to maintain
Wooldridge Square in May 2013 after restoration – new plantings, irrigation, this important piece of our history.”
lighting and food vendor. Photo courtesy Ann S. Graham.
The effort being made today will restore Continued on Page 4
AUSTIN JOURNALISTS TO
TAKE CENTER STAGE
AT 2014 EBERLY LUNCHEON
By Geoff Wool
The Austin History Center Association’s annual Angelina Eberly Luncheon has cemented its reputation as the event where
Austin’s history-makers and witnesses to that history come together to celebrate and explore our collective identity. This year,
Austin journalists will add their unique perspective to the mix.
Mark your calendars now for next year’s Eberly luncheon,
Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, as a panel of Austin’s most seasoned journalists offer a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the biggest
news stories of the 70s, 80s and 90s were collected, processed
and delivered to Austin homes. Veteran Austin television news
journalist Ron Oliveira leads what
promises to be a lively mix of tall tales
and revealing insight from a group of
TV, radio, and newspaper reporters
who have literally been eyewitnesses
to our city’s history, and who have
adapted their work to changes in culture and technology.
“News, by its very nature, is fastpaced and vastly different from day to
day,” said Oliveira. “And it’s competiRon Oliveira
tive. Keeping up in that environment is
a challenge and anyone who’s covered news for a living has
entertaining stories to tell about what people don’t see in their
newspapers or on TV. This should be fun.”
Seating is limited so plan now and stay tuned for ticket information.
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Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Evan Taniguchi, President
Robert Sullivan, First Vice President
Ken Tiemann, Second Vice President
Terrell Blodgett, Treasurer
Jena Stubbs, Secretary
Maria Ines Garcia, Member-at-Large
Ann Dolce, Immed. Past President
Directors at Large
Charles Betts / Cindy Brandimarte /
Liz Bremond / Linda Bush /
Lynn Cooksey / Beth Fowler /
Brooks Goldsmith / Becky Heiser /
Mary Ann Heller / James Mosvick /
Kathleen Davis Niendorff /
Charles Peveto / Patsy Stephenson /
Toni Thomasson / Candace Volz /
Anne Wheat / Geoff Wool /
Mike Miller, AHC Archivist
Austin History Center
Association Staff
Jeff Cohen, Executive Director
Allison Supancic, Office Manager
Becca Thompson, Accountant
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Geoff Wool, Public Relations
Anne Wheat, Photo Coordinator
Introducing Evan Taniguchi,
AHCA President 2013-14
Designing, building, and inspiring the best in
Austinites and Austin throughout his life
By Jeff Cohen
At the annual meeting last May, the Austin History Center Association installed
its President for 2013-14, architect Evan Taniguchi, AIA. As Evan received the gavel
from his predecessor, Ann Dolce, he gazed at the audience with humble emotion
and complete selflessness, and remarked that he just wanted to “help keep us going
forward on what all of us have been working so hard to build over these past many
years.”
Evan Taniguchi has been providing selfless Board service, leadership, and probono architectural planning to the Austin History Center and its Association for many
years, and playing every key role of leadership. In tandem with
Candace Volz and the newly-appointed Tri-Chair Toni Thomasson, Evan has mostly been leading the Austin History Center
Campus Committee, working on the planned expansion into the
Faulk Library site when the city opens its new central library. The
City recently broke ground on the new library, so the expansion
of Austin History Center into a connected two-building campus
becomes closer to reality each day.
Evan leads with friendliness, wisdom, efficiency, and a passion
for people treating one another with dignity. His quiet “lead-byexample” style for Austin History Center Association matches his
love for architectural design and community service. He is the principle for Taniguchi
Architects, which has more than fifty years of history in the design of educational,
civic and residential projects in Central Austin and abroad.
The firm was founded by the late Alan Y. Taniguchi, FAIA, Evan’s father, who
served as Dean of the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin
from 1967-72. Taniguchi Architects maintains an intimate practice focused on strong
client relationships, solid design foundations, and environmental stewardship. In
April 2012, the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects bestowed its
2012 Firm Achievement Award for 2012 on Taniguchi Architects. This award, the
highest honor that AIA Austin gives, recognizes an architecture firm for outstanding
contributions to the community or to the profession.
In December, 2005, The Good Life Magazine and writer Laura Ohata profiled
Evan with a stirring article entitled “A Life in Architecture and Activism.” The article
shared the history of Evan’s parents and grandparents, who because of their Japanese heritage, were seized and placed into internment camps by the United States
after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The article states, “the prejudice and internment the
Taniguchi’s suffered during WW II sparked their involvement in progressive politics
and Alan and Leslie Taniguchi spent the rest of their lives fighting for causes that
served marginalized groups and the underprivileged.”
Naturally, the article chronicled Evan’s long history and experiences fighting for
his political beliefs, and applying his architectural skill and his deeply-held value that
Austin should serve all people well, and champion everyone’s age, nationality, gender, skin color, ethnic background, level of income, and need for viable educational
space and healthcare. Evan’s history of service to community and educational nonprofits in Austin is exemplary.
For now, Evan will lead AHCA as it continues to blossom in its governance and
committee structure, community engagement, programming, and core role in working in partnership with the Austin History Center and Austin Public Library for the
Austin History Center’s upcoming expansion into a campus.
It is in Evan’s family history to design and build – and with the most soul-inspired purpose. After spending years in internment, Evan’s grandfather, Isamu Taniguchi – as a volunteer – built the Oriental Garden in Zilker Park Continued on Page 7
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AUSTIN POLICE
DEPARTMENT:
A VISUAL HISTORY
By Mike Miller
The Austin History Center presents “APD: A Visual History,” a new exhibit documenting the history of the Austin Police Department. The exhibit will be on display September 23,
2013 through March 30, 2014 in the David Earl Holt Photo
Gallery at the Austin History Center. The exhibit chronicles
the 173-year history of the city’s police department through
historic photographs and records.
Public safety has always been an important function of
local government. Austin’s police department was “born” on
January 13, 1840, when J. W. Hann was elected as the first
Austin City Marshall and served as the lone police presence
for this frontier town (though he was authorized to appoint
deputies). Through the years, the police force has grown as
the city has grown. This exhibit offers a glimpse into the ways
the Austin police department has changed since its inception
and highlights some of the notable police officers. For example, regarding the noted gunslinger and gambler Ben Thompson – Bat Masterson once commented on his pistol skills that
“it is doubtful if in his time there was another man living who
equaled him” - served as Austin’s City Marshall in the 1880s.
The exhibit also reveals candid scenes of officers at work.
Do officers in jack boots on Indian motorcycles sound cool?
They are. Visitors can also find out what crimes were being
committed in the city limits before there were paved streets
and cars, including getting a speeding ticket for riding your
horse too fast. Keeping the peace and controlling traffic included some technologies that officers no longer employ and
Mounted Officers Leslie Fox and August Von Rosenberg are pictured here astride
their motorcycles. Fox is riding a ca. 1910s Indian Big Twin motorcycle and Von
Rosenberg an Excelsior Autocycle, also from the 1910s. PICA 01402, Austin
History Center, Austin Public Library.
surprisingly some they still do. Vehicles have changed over
the years and so have uniforms, but the important work of
one of the oldest municipal departments continues. The exhibit does not provide a comprehensive history of APD, but
a short overview of some moments of officers on duty and
lending a helping hand.
From the Archivist - New Website Design
By Mike Miller
Many of you reading this now may already know, but the AHC
is happy to announce the recent launch of its new website design.
The web address remains unchanged – austinhistorycenter.org
– but the look of the site is updated and the structure of the site
is, hopefully, much more user friendly. If you
haven’t already, please pay us a visit online
and explore the new pages, dig through our
online collections, and learn more about the
great collections and services we offer. The
new design also prominently features our
new logo and tagline, “Discover Your Story.”
Feel free to let us know what you think (and
you can use the new “Contact” form on the
site).
So, why the new site? One reason is the City of Austin recently changed the web management software it uses, and the AHC
needed to migrate to this new software. This switch afforded us
the opportunity to take a hard look at our existing website and
see how we could make it better. While some may argue that in
today’s fast paced world, things change too rapidly and some-
times change just for change’s sake or to appear to be “fresh
and hip,” that is not true in our case. Our previous website was
a very good design, but it was created more than a decade
ago, which is an eternity in the online world.
Also, the architecture of the site became constraining as the
AHC sought to use the website to share more about the collections, services, and programs offered here. The new website
allows us to be much more proactive in sharing news, research
guides and tips, and new collections with our virtual researchers and visitors. We view this as a vital part of our ongoing
conversation with you.
And speaking of online conversations, stop by our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/AustinHistoryCenter)
and join in the fun there. We share historic photos, fun facts of
Austin, host trivia contests, and even share the occasional cat
photo! And of course, if you prefer for your conversation to be
in person, we love visitors, so we hope you stop by to attend
of our programs, do some research in the reading room, or
explore one of our exhibits. But no matter how you find us, we
are here to help you discover your story.
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Alliance Executive Director Charlie Betts. “The park was always
full of people when speeches were happening and food vendors
would line the edges of the park. I’ll never forget meeting Governor Allan Shivers there.” The fond memories it evokes in the
hearts and souls of individuals who grew up using the Square,
married there, or heard concerts or speeches there for the first
time gives inspiration to create new memories for future generations.
As Wooldridge Square moves into its second century, a partnership of public and private supporters aim to reinvigorate its
role in Austin’s public life and reclaim its prominence as one of
our most precious downtown landscapes.
Please join us on September 13th and 14th for the Wooldridge
Square reopening celebrations and take a moment to become
reacquainted with this gem in our city.
For more information about Wooldridge’s celebrations and
future, go to www.downtownaustin.com.
Hundreds of people turned out for the dedication of the new bandstand in Wooldridge Square Park in June 1910, one year after the park opened. Over
the years, thousands of children (and adults) slid down the hill on cardboard, hundreds of concerts staged, and dozens of political campaigns launched.
Image # C06049, Russell Chalberg Photograph Collection, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.
Park Restored By Friends
By Charles Peveto
I moved to Austin over 30 yeas ago after graduating from
Texas A & M in the Preservation Program. Shortly after my
arrival, the Director of the Texas A & M Foundation asked
if I would be interested in living in the Carriage House of
the recently restored Hirshfeld Mansion at Lavaca and 9th,
just across from Wooldridge Square Park. I researched the
historic squares in Austin and became very aware of their
importance and what they had meant in Austin’s history.
Wooldridge has three important historic designations:
1979 National Register, 1981 State Archeological Landmark (SAL) and 1990 City Landmark. In the 80s the park
functioned well downtown and attracted continuous use. I
often read in the park after dinner and loved the symphony
performances at noon. Families and many other individuals
enjoyed the park daily.
In the following years I moved to other downtown locations
while remaining very interested in Wooldridge Square Park.
At present, I reside three blocks from the park and walk by
Wooldridge every morning. Sadly, about ten years ago, I noticed a decline in the care of the park. Gradual disease and
death had claimed a number of the heritage trees. The old
irrigation system had been turned off. The dreadful drought of
two years ago browned the little green square.
By the time I realized how much the Wooldridge conditions
had declined, the park had become a delivery stop for the
feeding program of Mobile Loaves and Fishes social service
organization. The program delivered food to homeless groups
gathered at the edge of the park. Over time, the deliveries
contributed to the deterioration of Wooldridge.
About four years ago I joined the Friends Continued on Page 7
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FIRST NOVEL TURNS DREAMS INTO A THRILLER
By Jim Goodson
Check the work of Austin author Beth Fowler and you’ll find
she’s always written with at least one foot grounded in reality,
even when musing about dogs, cats and God.
Her trilogy Could You Love Me Like My Dog, Could You
Love Me Like My Cat and Could You Love Me Like My God?
charmed readers and graced best-seller lists in the late 1990s.
Fowler followed those successes with The Spirit of Missions, a fact- and photo-filled history of the early years of the
Episcopal Church in Texas. That work remains an educational
resource in Episcopal churches and schools throughout the
state.
Yet Fowler has always been troubled by a recurring dream
involving a wolf, red celestial body and the apocalypse – a
dream that became more vivid and complex as she got older.
Why would she encounter such similar – and sometimes terrifying – illusions over and over? Was this distraction or inspiration?
After 12 years of mulling over her dreams, she decided
to try her hand at fiction and write about them. And why not?
Already a successful author, Fowler
longed to expand her literary skills.
So her dreams became the catalyst
for Drawn, a 300-page tale told from
the perspective of Eva Meriwether, a
young woman who negotiates a world
of trickery with the help of some real,
caring friends. Eva’s task is to determine what is true and good and which
is false and evil.
Readers of Drawn will realize the
story unfolds in Austin, although Fowler curiously never refers to the city by
name.
Her love for her hometown is obvious in the care she takes to weave into the narrative tidbits
of Austin’s history: the location of General Custer’s encampment during Reconstruction; the uncanny similarity between
the layout of Austin and Jerusalem, with the state capitol occupying the same spot as the Temple.
“Through Eva’s eyes it’s possible to see how downtown
Austin could resemble the landmarks of Jerusalem,” Austin
aerial photographer Jim Innes says. “I’ve lived in Austin since
1978 and have visited Jerusalem many times, yet never put
the two together, until now.”
The wrapping of celestial events, mankind’s fate and Eva’s
unwavering innocence is an irresistible combination. Fowler’s
challenge is to make us care about Eva – which we do. Otherwise, a cynic could easily dismiss her dreams and hallucinations
as the ramblings of a schizophrenic. Eva may be off balance at
times, but she is not uncaring – and therefore not a mental case.
“Eva would be very appealing to a 20-something film audience,” says Logan Craft, an Episcopal priest turned movie producer, whose former New Mexico church is featured in Drawn.
“This group could identify with her, questioning their own perception in the face of inexplicable circumstances.”
But early reviews indicate the appeal of Drawn is not age
limited.
“I found myself in the wee hours of the morning saying,
‘One more chapter, one more chapter,’ ” reports Misty Fisher, a past board member of the Texas Circuit of Writers and
Poets.
Drawn made its debut at the Texas Book Festival in
Oct. 2012. A month later, Barnes & Noble ordered copies
and Fowler and her husband found themselves spending
AUSTIN MUSEUM DAY
meet the author
Sunday, Sept. 22nd
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Photo by Mark Alba
WOOLDRIDGE from Page 1
Wooldridge Square to its former glory through landscape restoration including a renewed lawn, tree maintenance, new
plantings, new irrigation system (using reclaimed water in the
future), added lighting, a food vendor, and the restoration of
the bandstand. Long-term, the Parks and Recreation Department will work with the Friends of Wooldridge Square and
other stakeholders on a master plan for the park. A community
reopening celebration will take place September 13th & 14th
and will kick off a diversity of events and programs for the fall
reopening of the park.
Wooldridge Square is unique in its rich historical background, its topography, and proximity to neighbors like the
Capitol, Governor’s Mansion, Bremond Block, Travis County,
Austin Public Library, and Austin History Center. “I remember
going to the square as a child with my daddy to hear stump
speeches of all the local candidates,” said Downtown Austin
Program & Signing
AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe St. (at 9th)
Beth Fowler
S p o n s o r e d b y A u s t i n P u b l i c L i b r a ry
the weeks before Christmas shipping cases of books to
anxious sellers. During the holidays, special orders were
filled for customers across the U.S. By February there
were reorders and in March, Drawn began showing up
on the shelves of local Barnes & Noble stores. Now,
Drawn is in its second printing and sold out at a book
signing event in May.
Inspiration notwithstanding, writing fiction proved to
be a challenge, even for an experienced writer such as
Fowler.
At the Texas Writer’s League Agents Conference, she
bonded with fellow fiction first-timers Cindy Stone (Mason’s
Daughter) and Laura Chavez (Girl from Long Guyland). The
threesome encouraged each other, swapped pages and
attended Texas Writer’s League workshops. Editing class
proved to be an eye opener. Award-winning author Carol
Dawson advised the do-it-yourself writers they could only
take it so far.
“To edit, you leave your pen in the drawer and take out
your knife,” said Dawson, confirming that editing one’s own
work is not a skill many writers possess. With no budget set
aside for hiring an editor, Fowler and Stone met Chavez in
Taos, New Mexico. The trio holed up for a week and slashed
their manuscripts, rewriting like maniacs.
The result for Fowler was a skeleton with a harrowing insert about a tornado destroying Eva’s car. The insert, based
on a storm Fowler survived, required that she rewrite everything leading up to it and everything after, because the new
action altered the plot.
By the next trek to Taos the following year, Fowler struggled with completing Drawn. Her friends fine-tuned their epublishing and consulting plans.
While working in advertising prepared Continued on Page 7
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FRIENDS from Page 4
EBERLY from Page 1
of Wooldridge Square (FOWS). The group met many times
to discuss how future programming could welcome all citizens to appropriate park activities. The Friends group promoted the park’s importance to the community and identified potential funding for a complete restoration, including
TANIGUCHI from Page 2
updated programming to bring Wooldridge “current” while
that is dedicated to universal peace. According to the Good respecting its historical integrity.
At the same time, the Friends and other organizations
Life Magazine article, “Isamu hoped that by contemplating
fern-festooned waterfalls, gem-colored fish, and the arch of worked with Mobile Loaves and Fishes for its continued
a moon-viewing bridge, visitors would enjoy beauty and for- feeding program in alternative locations. The Friends deget the competitive urges that drove them to war, and more sired for all citizens to enjoy appropriate programming acspecifically, the use of atomic weapons. The Isamu Taniguchi tivities at Wooldridge Square . For example, “quiet green
space” is part of Wooldridge programming. Thousands of
Oriental Garden was opened to the public in 1969.”
downtown dwellers and workers will notice a relaxing new
(To read the complete Good Life Magazine article, visit www.
lunch “get away” at Wooldridge, part of the immediate new
goodlifemag.org and find the list of archived issues on the
park programming. Appropriate activities may soon follow
right, click 2005, and click December issue).
like noon and early evening symphonies.
About a year ago the Friends, chaired by Michael McGill, began working with the Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) and Downtown Austin Alliance (DAA) to realize a long term vision for the square. The State of Texas
actually owns Wooldridge, like two other historic squares,
Republic Square and Brush Square, and the City of Austin
leases Wooldridge. Now the Friends, PARD and DAA have
secured the State of Texas agreement to the next 99-year
lease of Wooldridge Square.
As the restoration of the park nears completion, I personally thank Sara Hensley, Parks Director, and her wonderful staff for a remarkable job. In addition, the Austin
Parks Foundation, the Friends group and PARD will rehab
the historic 1910 Wooldridge Bandstand. Preservation architect Tere O’Connell will oversee the Bandstand project,
designed by Page Brothers, and five memorial park benches and lighting will also be installed.
Plans by the Friends, PARD, DAA and the entire community will create a Wooldridge Square master plan that
sustains the park for generations to come. Reopening
events will be September 13-14, 2013, when Wooldridge
Historian Charles Peveto selects site for Bettie Naylor’s memorial bench at Square returns to the City after being closed for over one
Wooldridge Square across 9th St. from the Austin History Center August 13th, 2013. year.
Proceeds from the Angelina Eberly Luncheon, hosted once
again at Austin’s historic Driskill Hotel, go to the Austin History
Center Association, supporter of the Austin History Center archives for Austin and Travis County.
NOVEL from Page 5
Fowler for self-publishing, nothing except reading and “writing,
writing, writing” prepared her for fiction. She thought The Spirit
of Missions history took “forever” to write, when she completed
it in three years. By comparison, Drawn took 12 years “to ponder” after the initial dream, and then 12 years to write.
But write it, she did. It’s an eerie story that makes you wonder: How would you face the apocalypse?
It could happen any time, whether you look at it from a religious or scientific standpoint. The sun supposedly has enough
hydrogen to burn for thousands of years, but are we sure of
that?
Fowler’s dreams and Eva’s experiences tell a different story.
They tell of a Texas countryside scorched by wildfires – which
is exactly what happened in 2011.
Eva’s Austin experiences will make you look at familiar
sights differently. And if you’re unconcerned about the end
times, you’ll still enjoy Fowler’s knowledge about her hometown. Her story may inspire you to take a walking tour through
downtown Austin and the Capitol to follow Fowler’s sketches
and descriptions “and see what Eva sees.”
Liz Bremond, founder of Tuesday Night Time-Out Ministry
and a native Austinite agrees.
“You’ll never look at the State Capitol the same way again,”
she says. “Drawn is a riveting eschatological thriller you can’t
put down until the final revelation.”
Jim Goodson is a former editor and publisher of Park Cities People and currently edits the national men’s ministry magazine St. Andrew’s Cross, issued by the Anglican and Episcopal churches. Also a freelance writer, his work has appeared in
many Texas and Colorado newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News and the Colorado Springs Sun.
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September 10
AHC: “Black Enterprise:
Remembering Austin’s
Pioneering Entrepreneurs” by Toni TiptonMartin, 6:30 PM.
September 22
AHC: Austin Museum
Day; AHC hosting
“Meet the Author”
event featuring Beth
Fowler, 4:30PM.
September 24
AHC: New exhibit
“APD: A Visual History”
opens in the David Earl
Holt Photo Gallery.
Exhibit runs through
March 30, 2014.
October 1 – 31
AHC: New traveling
exhibit “Activism and
the Brown Berets in
Austin, Texas: 1970s
– 1980s” at Terrazzas
Branch Library.
Save these Dates
October 16
Terrazzas Branch
Library: Documenting
Activism Through
the Lens of a Camera,
6:30PM.
October 22
AHC: “Southern Food
Matters: Race, Class,
and Gender in Tomatoes,
Biscuits, and Greens”
by Dr. Elizabeth
Engelhardt, 6:30PM.
October 27
AHC: A Journalistic
View of Grassroots
Activism, 1970s –
1980s, 3:00PM.
October 26 – 27
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