Remembering Austin
Nestled among the slopes of Central Texas Hill Country, Austin has grown from its frontier beginning to earn nationwide renown as a leader in arts, business, and government. Four wars and urban redevelopment have repeatedly altered the city’s landscape and culture. Through its changes, Austin has endured and prospered through the persistence and innovation of its civic leaders.
With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book, Historic Photos of Austin, Marsia Hart Reese provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Austin. This volume, Remembering Austin, captures the journey in still photography collected from the finest archives. The book follows life, government, education, and events spanning two centuries of Austin’s history. It captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than 100 historic photographs. Published in striking black-and-white, the images portray the events and people important to Austin’s history.
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Book details
- Text by
- Marsia Hart Reese
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) - Topics
- Austin, Texas · Texas history · local history · historic photography · pictorial history · Texas Hill Country · urban development
- ISBN-13
- 9781684422401
About the author
MARSIA HART REESE is a descendant of Sam Houston and a freelance writer and editor with more than four decades of professional experience.
Reese holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Southern Methodist University. She joined the staff of Austin Homes & Gardens in 1980, serving as its editor and a major feature writer, and later edited textbooks on American and Texas history for Holt, Rinehart & Winston. In 1987, she received the annual Press Award from the Austin Chapter of the National Society of Interior Designers.
When she’s not writing, Reese draws on years spent covering historic landmarks, profiling notable citizens, and editing history texts. That deep familiarity with Texas’s past shapes her work as an author.
Marsia has lived in Austin since 1979.