Images of America: Around San Antonio Copyright © 1999 by Pauline T. Newton.
This new book is an exquisite picture composite of early San Antonio life. There are 128 pages with nearly 200 exceptionally fine B&W historical pictures that will ignite your passion to rummage through ancestoral albums for treasures recalling your family's early history in and around San Antonio.
Images of America: Around San Antonio provides readers with an incisive history, not only of the city itself-- its missions, festive traditions, schools, military bases--but also of the surrounding Hill Country and ranches. Covering a time span from the early 1900s to the 1960s, this book provides a concise background of local folklore and traditions to visitors and other interested persons who wish to gain a deeper insight and appreciation of San Antonio and the surrounding area.
Author Newton's roots run deep in San Antonio's history, as her grandfather, Joseph Idus Lambert, played an important role in the old traditions and folklore of the area. The photographs and postcards in Images of America: Around San Antonio retrace the Lambert clan's footsteps, revealing places they traveled and lived, including Center Point, Fort Clark, Dripping Springs, Leakey, and Waring, in addition to the city of San Antonio, home to various festivals, schools, historical sites, and military bases. Local ranchers and farmers, as well as old timers, newcomers, and historians of all ages will enjoy this pictorial retrospective, which also will offer a foray into the history of Texas' families, land, and origins.
San Antonio is blessed with many cultures and these are apparent in the book. Your stroll through page after page will be refreshing as walk along the Riverwalk in the spring.
Newton can be reached for comments and questions by email at ptnewton@earthlink.net.
Arcadia Publishing offers Newton's book for $18.99.