Galveston: A City on Stilts

In 2007 the Galveston County Historical Museum hosted an exhibit entitled A City on Stilts. This exhibit was one of the most popular exhibits ever held at the museum. In response, curators Jodi Wright-Gidley and Jennifer Marines have now authored and published a book by the same title. The story of Galveston’s reconstruction after the Great Storm of September 8, 1900, is captured in the book. The Great Storm was a hurricane that killed 6,000 people and remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

City on Stilts, has been released nationwide and contains 200 vintage photographs from the Zeva B. Edworthy collection that document the rebuilding of the port city and life around Galveston in the early 1900s.

Although it will be a while before the Galveston County Historical Museum can be open to the public that has not stopped Jodi and Jennifer. Working in an office that they have to crawl under vacuum tubes and around ladders to get to, they are still keeping up with the museum’s activities.

Listen in as Jodi and Jennifer tell Talk of the Bay about this wonderful new book.

All publisher profits will be donated to Galveston Historical Foundation to support their historic preservation and community service efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ike.

Upcoming Book Signings:
11/07 7-9pm Friday – Bishop’s Palace
11/08 1-3pm Saturday – Borders on Kirby
11/09 1-3pm Sunday - Borders in Pearland
11/15 1-3pm Saturday – Books-A-Million (Main Stree in Houston)
12/5 – 12/6 Saturday & Sunday – Dickens on the Strand in Galveston

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