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Austin Found Podcast

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Do you love Austin as much as we do? Find out how it became the city it is today via Austin Found, a podcast from journalist and history buff Michael Barnes and radio personality J.B. Hager. They share the stories behind the stories about the people, places, culture and history of the inimitable Texas capital.
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Ep 27 Changing faces of the Tonkawa

You always hear about the Comanches, but the Tonkawa’s were a big part of Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 18, 2020•15 min

Ep. 25 Reborn Green Pastures

Built in 1895 and became a dining spot in 1946 in South Austin just a couple miles south of Downtown, it has been serving dinners and cocktails to Austinites for more than 70 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 01, 2020•14 min

Ep. 23 American Statesman at 150

The first edition of what would become the Austin American-Statesman was published 149 years ago today. Over the next year leading to our sesquicentennial, we will periodically look back at the newspaper’s history and its role in Austin’s rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 2020•14 min

Ep. 22 The Story behind El Azteca

53 years of serving steak a la Mexicana, chicken mole, soft tacos, menudo and barbacoa de cabeza on East 7th St. This is the story of Jorge Guerra and a welcoming East Austin family owned restaurant that was welcoming and shaped and improved this part of East Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 06, 2020•14 min

Ep. 21 The Roles of the Palm School

The Swante Palm School is downtown Austin's historical ghost ship. Most Austinites remain unaware of its past as a Republic of Texas ,Confederate, and United States military base and armory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 27, 2020•17 min

Ep. 20 How to read Austin Cemeteries

"A Cemetery is like a book, you just have to learn how to read it." - Karen Thompson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 2020•24 min

Ep. 16 Where did we eat out 45 years ago in Austin?

Turns out there was more than steak, barbecue, Tex-Mex and fried chicken: Austinites were a bit adventurous in the 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 22, 2020•24 min

Ep. 13 When Waller and Shoal creeks collided

A big storm in 1915 sent waves roaring through the populated canyons of the two creeks, wreaking destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 01, 2020•23 min

Ep.09: In 1922, twin tornados slammed into Austin

The mystery behind a family cemetery plot in southwest Austin led to riveting stories about a double tornado that hit Austin on May 2, 1922. We also discovered how it affected the Bargley family, which was especially hard hit by this natural disaster that killed 13 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 27, 2020•9 min

Ep.08: Tree rings of Austin growth unite the city

Austinite’s generally divide the city between east and west, or less frequently between north and south. What if, instead, we visualized the city as united by circles of historical growth? We could read our past in these tree rings of building trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 21, 2020•25 min

Ep.07: Six days in April 1964 changed Austin forever

Austin never experienced the race riots or other major racial violence of other American cities in the late 20th century, but its road from segregation to civil rights was marked instead by steady, valiant leadership from some pioneers whose names should be better remembered. They were opposed by some people whose names should be remembered for other, less admirable reasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 14, 2020•27 min

Ep.06: Did you ever think of Austin as a border town?

It’s not obvious to the fresh newcomer, but Austin is a border town. It lies on the boundary between the wet farmlands and forests of the East and the dry ranch lands and scrub hills of the West, and a lot of the city’s culture is derived from that contrast, as well as its position between the Catholic and Lutheran South and the Baptist and Methodist North of Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 06, 2020•14 min

Ep.05: What a character: World War I hero Buck Simpson

You’ve heard of Sergeant York, the most decorated American veteran of World War I. After all they made a hit movie with Gary Cooper as York. But what about Private “Buck” Simpson, an Austin cedar chopper and the second most decorated American veteran from that war? Turns out, he was a character in a family of Central Texas characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 30, 2020•18 min

Ep.04: The 1918 pandemic that hit Austin in three waves

“We’ve been here before. In 1918, city officials shuttered Austin for almost a month during the worst pandemic in modern times. We look at how folks are responding locally to the coronavirus crisis and what they can learn from the past." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 19, 2020•17 min

Ep.03: Three cops who navigated Austin’s segregated police force

There was a time, not long ago, when all African-American police officers in Austin served on a separate and definitely not equal East Austin squad patrolling East 11th and 12th streets, mostly on foot. Officers Mal Wiley, Leonard Flores and Ernie Hinkle all served during the 1950s and ‘60s when Austin was a very different city. And they tell their engrossing police stories from very different perspectives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 17, 2020•21 min

Ep.02: 1960s fish kill was our own ’Silent Spring’

One of the most spectacular fish kills in history hit the Colorado River in 1961 was traced to an East Austin “insect powder” factory. Green activist Rachel Carson told the basic story in “Silent Spring,” but it has been lost to popular memory even as Austin became an environmental mecca. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 11, 2020•16 min

Ep.01: Hunting down the Native American trails of Austin

What were once were Native American trails are now boulevards and freeways. We can trace the routes taken by Tonkawas, Apaches and Comanches, as well as Spanish, German, Anglo-American and African-American pioneers in Central Texas and how they became the modern roads we know so well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 08, 2020•21 min

Ep. 00 Austin Found show introduction

Do you love Austin as much as we do? Find out how it became the city it is today via Austin Found, a podcast from journalist and history buff Michael Barnes and radio personality J.B. Hager. They share the stories behind the stories about the people, places, culture and history of the inimitable Texas capital. This episode is an introduction of what to expect from this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 02, 2020•25 min
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