Use this form to enter the Selfie Scavenger Hunt. Enter your name and email address, and upload seven photos with descriptions. All form fields are required. Don’t forget to post your photos to your social media accounts. Check the box next each social media website to which you uploaded your photos. [cfdb-datatable form=”Upload Photos” show=”your-name,your-email,img-1,img-2,img-3,img-4,img-5,img-6,img-7″ role=”Subscriber” permissionmsg=”false” headers=”your-name=Name,your-email=Email,img-1=Photo 1,img-2=Photo 2,img-3=Photo…
Students, Parents & Teachers Join the Texas Independence Day Student History Fair Win Cash Prizes and a Scholarship. Students in Hood County and surrounding communities are invited to enter the 2015 Student History Fair. Categories include: individual papers, videos, projects, and art projects about Texas History centered around 1800s Texas, from independence through statehood. …
TEACHERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS Remember the Alamo, Goliad and the heroes who created a free republic and took Texas into statehood. SCHOLARSHIP FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS, CASH PRIZES K-12 HISTORY FAIR. ART, VIDEOS, PROJECTS AND MANUSCRIPTS SHOWING RESEARCH.
March 6–On this day in 1836, the Alamo fell to the Mexican Army. The dictator Santa Anna ordered all the Tajanos and Texans killed. Houston’s men weren’t ready for the battle. They continued to train until April when the Texas army surrounded Santa Anna’s army at San Jacinto, crying, “Remember the Alamo.” Although he tried…
“Texas shall be free, independent or we shall perish with glory in battle.” ~Juan N. Seguin, son of a pioneer Tejano family, formed a volunteer company of Tejano soldiers with the ringing proclamation that “Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the…
February 28 -March 2 Texas Independence Day Celebration of North Texas in Granbury, Texas. Parade, Texas heroes,1800s style, demonstration, vendors and reenactors. Enjoy Bulls on the Beach and a Selfie Scavenger Hunt. Then on March 2 attend a memorial at Elizabeth Crockett’s grave site.