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Inside the Moon Dolphins A2 Bulls on a Boat A2 Traveling Moon A9 On the Rocks A11 Nature Notes A14 Issue 867 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 25, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Miles Merwin Around The Nineteen Parcels Island of Island Land By Dale Rankin Sold for $2.1 The good news this week is that the first of the La Posada events kicks off the season on Sunday with live Million music at Billish Park. There’s plenty of room there to socially distance and Eleven Years for the kids to play. La Posada will be a little different this year due to Ago This Week the fungus among us but we Islanders will endure. Sold property In response to several inquiries we can announce that the Hinkle’s will included marina not have their Friday night party on Jackfish this year for obvious reasons. site on Lake Padre, If ever there was an event that was not meant for social distancing it bids on beachfront is the Hinkle’s party that has been going on more than a decade. Maybe lot and a corner of next year. SPID and Whitecap We include a complete list of La An Abundance of Ducks. Photo by Miles Merwin. Posada events in this issue with rejected a schedule and maps for the boat By Dale Rankin parades on Friday, December 11 and Saturday December 12. The Friday A Cabeza de Vaca Eleven years ago this week, on night event will feature a deck party Saturday, November 21, 2009 at Marker 37 where the parade will seventy-six parcels of land on Padre kick off that night. This is the year Thanksgiving on Padre Island Island were put up for auction by for Island boat owners to move their developer Paul Schexnailder and parties from back decks to boat decks By Dale Rankin related partners Asset Development to celebrate the event without having It was November, 1534 and four Partners and Gulf Shores Partners. Spain in 1527 to seek to worry about drawing large crowds shipwrecked Spanish wanderers Out of the seventy-six parcels offered their fortune in the to land bound parties. making their way across the prairies nineteen separate pieces of property New World. On their of what is now South Texas had little were sold for a total of $2.1 million at Christmas boxes voyage to Florida by to be thankful for – at least until the way of Santo Domingo Each holiday season we are reminded end of November rolled around and a Moorish woman had how many newcomers we have to their fortunes began to change. our Island when questions come in predicted that few of about the storage boxes going up A Moorish prediction the men who went around Island boat ramps. Those are ashore would survive Before 1536 there were 95 Church and anyone who did placed there each year to facilitate holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when the delivery of packages to Island survive would be people were required to attend church blessed by God who residences through a longstanding and forego work and sometimes agreement with the Padre Isles would perform great barrier Islands, now called Galveston, pay for expensive celebrations. In miracles through them. By November Property Owners Association. The 1536 reforms reduced the number Mustang, and Padre, where fish delivery service drops packages at of 1534 the four survivors had arrived and cattail roots would keep them of Church holidays to 27 and the on the Isle of Misfortune and had the storage units so that they can be Thanksgiving holiday as we now fed through the season of the Blue picked up by helpers on golf carts. little to be thankful for other than Norther. The Karankawas had seen know it began to take shape. Days their simple and unlikely survival. The idea is to cut down on truck of Fasting were called for after the passing Spanish ships on the horizon traffic on Island streets during the drought of 1611, and for relief from They talked with a “click” but they were now about to come face holiday season. the plagues of 1604 and 1622; in to face with the Spaniards for the first Brochure announcing the sale. On the blustery night of November 1588 it was the defeat of the Spanish time. Whitecap speeders 4, 1528 a group of Karankawa Armada, and in 1705 the deliverance The Karankawas were later described The speed monitors on Whitecap Indians were huddled around the auction at Padre Isles Country Club. of Queen Anne, then the failure of the by the Europeans as tall and angular have been in place for a couple of hearths of their open-sided wigwams The 76 lots offered included Gulf Gunpowder Plot in 1605. people, unlike the builds of the squat, weeks now but frankly don’t seem on the Isle of Misfortune sheltering frontage, a permitted marina site, thicker Indians they would later to be doing any good. There are still These were Protestant celebrations from the violent storm which was canal frontage, and ranged in purpose encounter inland. Little is known of more drivers exceeding the 35 miles that were foreign and probably upon them. As they had always done from hotels to condos, to commercial. the Karankawa culture as they left per hour limit than observing it. We unknown to the four Catholic they migrated to the Texas Coast little behind in the way of structures Three beachfront parcels were listed all know where this is headed. If the Spaniards who had found themselves each fall, leaving behind the long hot or writings. Their unusual appearance for possible sale but when the dust speed monitors don’t work police washed upon what is now the summers of the upland river valleys Alabama shoreline on November where they ate fruits and seeds and and the peculiar “click” which was officers with radar guns will be next Property cont. on A4 and then the complaint will be that 4, 1528. The men had set out from hunted the bison. They came to the de Vaca cont. on A4 the police are conducting a speed trap. High speed mixed with residents along Whitecap backing out of their La Posada driveways is a combination that can A little Island history lead to nothing good. Please, slow Events Kick Off your roll everybody. Thanksgiving: An Alternative Story This Weekend Big Boy has left Port Aransas By Dale Rankin with Tunes for We all grew up hearing the story sixty-year old Irish of Thanksgiving. You know the aristocrat who was heir Toys in Billish one, the Pilgrims suffered through a to a baronetcy in Ireland tough winter with the help of their but broke. Bellomont Park Native American friends and then managed to bring King threw a big party to celebrate and William III of England bang, we got Thanksgiving. Well, into the project and Changes to La that makes for a warm and fuzzy Kidd was presented Posada 2020 Sometimes people are just story but that may not be exactly with a letter of marque, La Posada 2020 kicks off Sunday, knuckleheads. Big Boy was a 30- how it went down. signed personally by the King which reserved November 29 with Tunes for Toys in 40 year-old Port Aransas resident Author Richard Zacks in his book 10% of Kidd’s captured Billish Park from 2:30-4:30 p.m. who was living behind the Dollar “The Pirate Hunter – The True Story loot for the Crown, and General Store in Port A but people of Captain Kidd” tells a slightly Music provided by our very own subsequent historical kept feeding him and this week was different version. Dan Herrington. Please bring a evicted. Big Boy was/is a ten-foot evidence suggests that new un-wrapped toy to place in the alligator who weighed in at over England 1695 the King may have even collection box, along with a chair, 400 pounds and as he lost his fear fronted some of the money blanket, picnic lunch, and all family The story begins in England for the voyage himself. of humans (knuckleheads) he had to in 1695 when some of the most members. Kids play in the park and go. So Big Boy is being relocated to powerful men in the Empire put At the time, Bellomont burn off some energy while adults Gator Country which is an adventure financial backing behind the voyage had secured an enjoy the music. park in Beaumont, that has over 450 of ship captain William Kidd whose appointment as Governor Online auction other alligators and reptiles. So if you of Massachusetts Bay mission was to put to sea and raid Captain William Kidd are thinking you had a tough week the ships of England’s enemies in the New World and There are some changes this year to just consider poor old Big Boy who for plunder and profit. Four-fifths was looking to add the Scheming governor the La Posada parades and the events got moved from Port A to Beaumont. of the cost for the venture was governorships of New York and New leading up to them on December 11- Kidd did indeed put to sea but Now that’s a tough week folks. paid for by noble lords, including Hampshire to his resume in hopes 12. when he found the pickings of the Earl of Orford, the Baron of of garnering a combined salary of Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving foreign vessels too slim for his First the auction by the La Posada Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury, 1800 pounds a year and to reverse his and say hello if you see us Around likings he was accused, subsequent Foundation that has in recent years The Island.

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