Raise some Ale!
September 11th, 2007
Alamo Artwork for Sale
September 11th, 2007
Copies of G.T. Johnson’s brilliant, Alamo watercolor paintings are on sale now!
The 11” X 14″ prints cost $19.95, plus $7.75 shipping & handling. Regarding purchases, contact G.T. Johnson at gt222@aol.com
Take a look at his artwork by clicking here!
Alamo Resources
September 8th, 2007
Interview with Billy Bob Thornton
August 15th, 2007
Interview with Cástulo Guerra
August 8th, 2007
Read my interview with Cástulo Guerra, who portrayed General Manuel Fernandez Castrillon in The Alamo (2004)!
Plan in works for fortifying the Alamo
August 6th, 2007
The new vision for the Alamo, it turns out, involves returning the old mission to its past.
Click here to read the article!
Interview with Alan C. Huffines
August 6th, 2007
AS: Are there any characters within the history of the Texas Revolution that you can relate to?
ACH: Sure, but let me comment on the terminology. Even though the term Texas Revolution is used, and I’m just as guilty as anyone on this, it was not a revolution. The more accurate term is The Texian War of Independence. I realize that’s a mouthful, but that is what it was. Of course the same could be said about the American Revolution. Now to your question. Travis was always it for me. Perhaps it is because of Lawrence Harvey, but he has always been my favorite. When my wife and I were coming out of the premier for THE ALAMO, she said she could not believe a man who abandoned his wife and children could have ever been my hero. I really could not answer because he did do that, but I am still fond of him to this day.
Interview with Rich Curilla
August 6th, 2007
AS: How long have you been a student of the Alamo?
RC : My Alamo interested started February 23, 1955, when I saw Disney’s Davy Crockett at the Alamo on TV’s Disneyland. I had seen the first two episodes and was already hooked on Davy. I knew every verse in the Jimmy Dodd recording of the ballad, but as a seven-year-old, I couldn’t understand what they meant in the song when they sang, “And they needed him at the Alamo.” Until then, the “Alamo” to me was a restaurant in Knoebels Grove ammusement park near our home in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. So… what? They needed Davy to wash dishes?
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Interview with Gary S. Zaboly
August 6th, 2007
AS: How long have you’ve drawn for publications and when were you first asked to commission an illustration for a book?
GZ: My first commissioned illustration came in 1972, a gouache painting entitled DUNBAR’S MASSACRE, for Burt Garfield Loescher’s THE ST. FRANCIS RAID, volume four of his series, THE HISTORY OF ROGERS’ RANGERS. Since then my work has been published fairly steadily, even while I worked in the downtown rat race for 15 years as an art director. I quit the field in 1987, and devoted myself full-time to historical/western/military illustration and writing.
Interview with Jack R. Edmondson
August 6th, 2007
AS: How were you introduced into the Alamo?
JE: Born in 1950, I am a classic Baby Boomer. As with most Baby Boomers, I have now reached that very comfortable and convenient stage in life wherein my age, my IQ, and my waist size are all approximately the same. Also, as with most Baby Boomers, Hollywood introduced me to the Alamo.
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