Each episode of the “San Antonio Storybook” will tell a different story about the Alamo City. The stories will be about the sounds you hear and the places you see as you drive around San Antonio.
Feb 1, 2019
3 min
Most people who visit Alamo Plaza are there to see the Alamo but some are there to sell snow cones. Their story is not what you might expect: it is a song of ice and fire and government-sponsored lotteries.
Aug 17, 2018
9 min
Plenty of people have seen the "Come And Take It" flag and think they know what it means. In Gonzales, Texas they know the story of how and why it was first created and it's not what you might imagine.
Jul 17, 2018
11 min
There is a lot on the side of Austin Highway in San Antonio that sits empty for most of the year. But about a month before Christmas every year, it is transformed into a special place where memories are made.
Dec 20, 2017
6 min
In a small building on the side of US Highway 90, a woman works tirelessly to make sure her community is able to stay connected with the outside world. This is the story of the postmaster of Valentine, Texas.
Dec 14, 2017
6 min
What a city chooses to build speaks volumes about its past – or at least about the past it wants to remember. What it chooses to tear down can tell us just as much about who they want to be in the future.
Nov 22, 2017
9 min
A planetarium is a very special place designed for a very special purpose. Even though most people have ay some point sat under a planetarium’s dome, few know the story of how they came to be or how scientists have come to use them today.
Sep 13, 2017
18 min
The International Space Station is technically the most expensive building ever built. A few hundred people have lived there. But only twelve people have lived on the Moon making the architecture they inhabited there the most exclusive in (or off) the world.
Nov 1, 2016
23 min
Most sports are played in featureless rectangles with little connection between the sport and the field on which it is played. This is not the case with the rodeo, or at least not the Mexican rodeo also known as the charreada.
Oct 1, 2016
14 min
Although movies rarely feature what architects do, movies often feature characters who are architects. So what does it mean when a character is identified as an architect?
Sep 1, 2016
19 min
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