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Literal(Ly) San Antonio * * * LITERAL(LY) SAN ANTONIO. Charmed by its beauty, history, and character, writers have found inspiration in San Antonio for centuries # text by Gene Fowler with Bryce Milligan ______ photographs by Al Argueta 48 texashighways.com | JANUARY 2016 JANUARY 2016 | texashighways.com 49 * * * Commerce St. Bridge ON A 1709 EXPEDITION into the unsettled territory north of the Rio Grande, Fray Isidro Espinosa of Nueva España wrote in his diary about the springs and river that later gave rise to the city of San Antonio, noting that the river could “supply not only a village but a city” and that “we called it the river of San Antonio de Padua.” In the three centuries since the Spanish ____________ missions along the river between 1718 and priest recorded those impressions, a multi- 1731.” Collectively declared a World Heritage tude of authors have sought to capture and # Site this past July, the missions will soon re- convey the city’s mystery and charm. I spent “It’s important flect an even greater degree of preservation a stimulating afternoon last spring learning to understand,” and interpretation. about those works and their creators, both Bryce pointed One of the earliest American chroniclers historic and contemporary, from my San out, “that the of the city’s water sources, Frederick Law Antonio amigo Bryce Milligan. Poet, novel- abundance of Olmsted, the landscape architect of New ist, playwright, and all-around authorial top water here drew York’s Central Park and the United States Mission Espada hand, Bryce edited the forthcoming book native peoples Capitol grounds, wrote in his 1857 book A O. Henry house Literary San Antonio (Texas Christian Uni- to the area Journey through Texas: “The San Antonio versity Press), an anthology that spans three long before Spring may be classed as of the first water the Spaniards centuries of writing about Texas’ numero uno among the gems of the natural world. … established the travel destination. five missions You cannot believe your eyes, and shrink We convened on the San Antonio River, along the from sudden metamorphosis by invaded of course, or more specifically, at the Com- river between nymphdom.” merce Street Bridge above the famed San 1718 and 1731.” Just as Bryce and I were doing, many vis- Antonio River Walk. On the riverside walk- ____________ iting writers surveyed the daily passage of way beneath us, visitors from all over the San Antonio life from the Commerce Street world strolled past shops, restaurants, and Bridge. At various times the span has been grand hotels, anchored since 1946 by Casa named for both the poet Sidney Lanier and Rio, where the Mexican cuisine still draws the short-story master O. Henry, who lived crowds. A few doors down from where we briefly in San Antonio in the 1890s while stood on Commerce Street, Schilo’s, which publishing his paper the Rolling Stone under dates to 1917, offers fare from another im- his real name, William Sydney Porter. In portant ethnicity in San Antonio history, 1894, The Red Badge of Courage author Ste- the Germans. phen Crane reportedly jumped from the “It’s important to understand,” Bryce bridge to save a girl from drowning. Ac- pointed out, “that the abundance of water cording to his biographer Thomas Beer, Mission Espada interior here drew native peoples to the area long before Crane’s death at age 28, he had in- before the Spaniards established the five tended to return to San Antonio and write Plaque along the River Walk 50 texashighways.com | JANUARY 2016 To order a print of the Mission Espada photographs, call 866/962-1191, or visit www.texashighwaysprints.com. JANUARY 2016 | texashighways.com 51 * * * another war novel, this one about the Alamo. his works set in the Alamo City. “As far as Sidney Lanier arrived in the city in 1872, I’m concerned, there’s no place in Texas that drawn to San Antonio’s climate as a possi- feels more ancient or more mysterious.” That ble cure for tuberculosis. Though the disease sense of mystery and magic is also evident eventually claimed his life, the Alamo City’s in Harrigan’s 2011 novel Remember Ben character proved something of a temporary Clayton, which features some terrific scenes elixir. “If peculiarities were quills, San Anto- in the bar of the storied Menger Hotel, just nio de Bexar would be a rare porcupine,” La- south of the Alamo. nier marveled in Southern Magazine in 1873, Open since 1859, the Menger has hosted noting that the city “bristles with striking id- many noted authors. Oscar Wilde stayed at iosyncrasies and bizarre contrasts.” the hotel in 1882, when he came to lecture San As our own jaunt along the river neared Antonians on “Decorative Art.” The San An- the old Ursuline Academy and Convent, tonio Light reported that the English author Bryce noted that San Antonio provided the was attired in “a drab velvet jacket” and wore setting for six O. Henry stories. A story ti- “white lace ruffles” and “scarlet stockings.” tled “The Enchanted Kiss” is set at the con- Though less flamboyant, Robert Frost pon- San Pedro Springs Park vent, where a lovesick drugstore clerk, under dered his famous verses about “the road not Mission San José the influence of absinthe, hallucinates such taken” while staying at the Menger during ____________ things as a 400-year-old cannibal masquer- several visits from the 1920s to the ’40s. The ading as a Spanish nobleman masquerading # poet spent a lot of time at the now-defunct as an Alamo plaza chili merchant. Today, the Rosengren’s Books, which in the 1930s was convent houses the Southwest School of Art, Robert Frost located on the ground floor of the Milam pondered his host to year-round exhibitions open to the Building at Travis and Soledad streets. famous verses public. Architectural historians believe that During one visit, he wrote to his colleague about “the road the site’s oldest structure, built in 1851, is the not taken” while Louis Untermeyer, “I am deep in Texas his- oldest extant example of pisé de terre work (a staying at the tory and don’t want to be bothered by any but rammed earth construction technique) in the Menger during the ghosts of Goliad and the Alamo.” Frost state. Other 19th-Century buildings at the several visits inscribed a photograph for the store, “Wish- school are made of native stone in a Gothic from the 1920s ing to be remembered in the best of book- Revival style. to the ‘40s. stores.” It’s now in a private collection. Later Several blocks to the southwest, at the cor- ____________ housed in the Crockett Hotel by the Alamo, Menger Hotel ner of Laredo and Dolorosa streets, Bryce the beloved bookshop closed in 1987. pointed out the small private house where But Frost would be glad to know that the O. Henry rested his head in San Antonio. art of writing in San Antonio is alive and Though marked with signage, it sits today well. “San Antonio was the first city in Texas looking relatively lonely and forlorn. to name its own poet laureate,” Bryce told Bryce soon decided it was time to remem- me. “And the San Antonio Express-News is ber the Alamo, and we headed several blocks the rare daily to publish poetry on its Sun- east to the shrine of Texas independence. day book review page.” Standing on the plaza by the iconic structure The city’s first poet laureate, Carmen Ta- with its familiar parapet, we agreed that one folla, also served as the 2015 Poet Laureate of the best accounts of the battle ever writ- of Texas. Her books include Curandera, Son- ten was the 2000 novel The Gates of the Alamo nets and Salsa, Rebozos, and This River Here— by Stephen Harrigan. Critics noted that even Poems of San Antonio. The last title, from though readers knew the battle’s outcome Bryce’s publishing company Wings Press, beforehand, the story transcended spoiler is filled with rich evocations of San Antonio alerts because Harrigan made the reader places, from the popular taverns called ice- care about his characters on both sides of the houses to the Mission San José. One poem tragic clash. recounts the mid-1700s treaty between San “Ever since I first saw San Antonio at Antonio authorities and the Apache nation, Southwest School of Art chapel the age of seven, it has been a magical city which the two parties supposedly made offi- Aztec Theatre to me,” Harrigan replied when asked about cial by burying weapons and a live horse in 52 texashighways.com | JANUARY 2016 To order a print of the photographs on the top row, call 866/962-1191, or visit www.texashighwaysprints.com. JANUARY 2016 | texashighways.com 53 * * * Another poem, “Restoration of the Cathe- dral,” honors the preservation of the mid- 1700s San Fernando Cathedral on Main Plaza. Imagining that the historic site in- spired Frost, Lanier, and countless other poets enriched the visiting experience on my most recent trip. The last place Bryce and I visited on our rounds of San Antonio’s literary landmarks really blew up my boots. Today, the Aztec Theatre is a one-of-a-kind downtown music venue, hosting artists like Buddy Guy, Todd Rundgren, and George Clinton & Parlia- ment-Funkadelic. John Phillip Santos, the first Mexican-American Rhodes Scholar, immortalized the 1926 venue in his remark- able 1999 memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation. Waterfall along the River Walk in San Antonio “On Saturdays,” Santos wrote, “all day long, with brothers, cousins, and friends, we watched Kung Fu triple features at the Aztec ____________ one of the downtown plazas.
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