One of my favorite pastimes is to go to the local library and go through the vertical files or archives.  I love to see history unfold through old photographs, newspaper clippings, or artifacts.  My students are engaged in a local history project for the semester.  They are required to gather primary and secondary sources to tell the history of a specific location or event in Corpus Christi.  The projects vary from the seawall to the Corpus Christi home front during World War II.  This is authentic history!  Not memorizing dates or people but hands on, place based learning.

This past Friday, I joined a few of my students at the La Retama Library to go over the vertical files and help in finding resources for their project.  It is good to be back at the Local History Room.  During my afternoon I looked at old articles on Hamlin Pharmacy, HEB, and Naval Station CC.  I viewed a newspaper advertisement for movies at the old Thunderbird Theater for Sunday, October 22, 1972 - my birthday.  The Sunday movie listings also reminded me that there was another drive-in theater in Corpus, the Buccaneer.  My memories are always triggered by some image or song.  I look forward to seeing my student's projects.  They are an amazing group of kids