City folk and country folk are two entirely different kinds of people. We live out in the woods, seven miles north of the small town of Huntsville, population 30,000+ depending on whether you count the college students and the criminals. This is, after all, the prison capital of Texas where we have more prison units […]
My presentation for the Gálvez Symposium dealt with Bernardo de Gálvez’ leadership and the lessons he learned from his victories and defeats. I believe the same concepts can be applied to the young men who played for the National Men’s Basketball Championship last night. What lessons can we, and they, take away from the thrilling, […]
Saturday’s Gálvez Symposium was a tremendous learning experience. Dr. Moramay Lopez-Alonso and Dr. Gonzalo Quintero Saravia both emphasized the impact of the Enlightenment on Bernardo de Gálvez and the people of the time. As Viceroy of New Spain, Bernardo de Gálvez was considered by the Creole elite of the city to be a threat to […]
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? The terms “Smashing success” “Beyond our wildest dreams” “Better than we could have hoped for” are just a few of the heady feelings the Granaderos y Damas de Gálvez of Houston are experiencing this morning. The Rice Symposium went off – we can now definitely […]
Over the last three months, our Granaderos y Damas have been planning our Symposium in honor of Bernardo de Gálvez. For our Keynote speaker, we had hoped to secure the services of a scholar named Dr. Thomas E. Chávez. He is the author of a book titled Spain and the Independence of the United States, a […]