I was not very fond of Ann Richards, mostly because she seemed so beholden to the PC crowd. I was especially irked by her comment that “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
DARRELL K. ROYAL–TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM. Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, formerly Texas Memorial Stadium, has been the home of University of Texas football and track teams since 1924. In that year Henry Jacob Lutcher...
In September 2001, I had taken a long-awaited trip to Niagara Falls. It was an exciting, unforgettable vacation. In the same way, I simply had to visit the Grand Canyon, regarded by some people as numero uno among the seven wonders of the...
After a painful breakup with a girlfriend named Lulu, I decided to get in my car and go. The car in this case was a light blue Ford Pinto, and my destination was Mississippi. That state is not generally considered a place for tourists. On the...
Nearing the end of my freshman year at the University of Texas, I was not sure what to do in June, July and August. If I had possessed wisdom, maturity and direction—which I most certainly did not in those days—I might have stayed in Austin to...
In the summer of 1963, the Pennington family (which did not yet include Paul) moved to a different neighborhood in east Dallas. One of the first friends I made was Randy Fisher. He was not athletically inclined and thus did not take part in...
In 2003, I Googled “international pen pals” because I thought that might be interesting. It led to various degrees of communication with people in China, England, Lebanon, Peru, Russia, the Philippines and Romania...
In October 1990, I moved to Travis Heights, a neighborhood south of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. I lived upstairs in an old house on Newning Avenue for about 18 months before departing when it was turned into a bed-and-breakfast hotel...
In the spring of 1978, I moved to Durham, North Carolina. My reasons for having done so seem dubious in retrospect. It was not unlike when I went to Lexington, Kentucky the year before. Both were southern college towns—the University of...
I was a student at Hill Junior High School in 1967 when the American Basketball Association was formed. This would be of no consequence had the Dallas Chaparrals not been a member of the league. I was an enthusiastic supporter from the start...
Through the mid-1960s, I did not know what “segregation” was but I could look around and see there were no black people in our east Dallas neighborhood. And since it was not exactly a sociopolitical hotbed, nobody made a fuss or...
April 27, 2005 Darrell Royal University of Texas University Station Austin, TX 78712 Dear Coach Royal: I am prompted to write this letter because of the recent death of Prentice Gautt, the first black football player at your...
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