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Pecan Street Festival – Austin, TX

AlligatorHeading to the Pecan Street Festival on 6th Street in downtown Austin…

Why is this festival on 6th Street yet called Pecan Street Festival?  We found our answer in the history of Austin.  In 1839 Edwin Waller laid out the Austin streets in a fourteen block grid plan with the north-south streets given Texas River names and the east-west streets given Texas Tree names – hence Pecan Street.  The tree names were changed in the late 1800s. Continue reading

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Philosopher’s Rock

Three friends at Barton Springs.

DiscussingThe early afternoon was sunny and hot but that did not matter to the three friends.  They were meeting on their rock at Barton Springs in Austin, TX.  No one knows exactly what the discussion was but it was informal and intense.  They were authors and professors, but most importantly friends who met and discussed each day beginning in the early 1900s.  One of the friends dubbed their meeting place as Philosopher’s Rock. Continue reading

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