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, https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123938/

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Henry, in Flood of Spirits, an immersive theatre experience at the historic Driskill Hotel in Austin , Oct 17–24
https://bit.ly/flosp

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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: https://bit.ly/flosp

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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 @ https://bit.ly/flosp

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“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.”

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/12/09/austin-activist-shudde-fath-dies-106-years-old-obituary/69715479007/

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In 1904, 118 years ago this month, the first paving of Austin’s Congress Avenue began.

From The Austin Statesman, Tuesday, November 29, 1904, p. 5, c. 3: “Eighty thousand brick have been ordered by Brown & Dabney from the Thurber Brick Company…Present indications point to the laying of the first brick within a week or 10 days at the outside.”

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