Fun With The Family Texas

Fun with the Family Texas leads the way to historical attractions, children's museums, festivals, parks, and much more.

Enables parents to turn family travel into an exploration. Fun and adventure for the whole family. Hundreds of ideas for day trips with the kids.

Texans will use any excuse to have fun! Pull up a chair and let a legendary Texas storyteller take you on a yearlong tour to 1,600 of his favorite fun Texas events in over 600 towns.

In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend. In The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, a great-granddaughter of James B. and Ariella Hawkins and an active partner in today’s Hawkins Ranch, has mined public records, family archives, and her own childhood memories to compose this sweeping portrait of more than 160 years of plantation, ranch, and small-town life. Letters sent by the Hawkinses from the Texas plantation to their North Carolina family in the mid-nineteenth century describe sugar making, the perils of cholera and fevers, the activities of children, and the “management” of slaves. Public records and personal papers reveal the experience of the Hawkins family during the Civil War, when J. B. Hawkins sold goods to the Confederacy and helped with Confederate coastal defenses near his plantation. In the 1930s, the death of their parents left the ranch in the hands of four sisters, at a time when few women owned and ran cattle operations. The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present offers a panoramic view of agrarian lifeways and how they must adapt to changing times.

This is a guide to more than a hundred parks, museums, and recreational area all over the state where you can have fun with you kids--often for free.

Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).

With descriptions of over 100 kid-focused outings and 25 annual events, this guidebook makes it easy to experience Austin, Texas. Visitors and newcomers will find the top tourist destinations as well as the quirky places that make Austin so unique. It uncovers fresh finds for locals looking for added adventure, and guides new parents into the city's vibrant kid culture. A categorical Table of Contents organizes entries by interest, age, and location to help identify the best spots for the family. In addition to an Annual Festivals & Events section, this updated second edition also includes a Places to Eat section and added entries.

Written especially for families who travel with their young children, "Family Travel & Resorts" has been revised by author Pamela Lanier to include even more up-to-date information. With its detailed listings of family-friendly resorts, inns, and hotels -- including condominiums -- this classic guide has everything you need for planning a vacation worthy of the scrapbook. Lanier offers helpful advice on making trips with the kids more fun (with less hassle), information on unforgettable adventure travel trips, a national guide to theme parks and factory outlet malls, and useful articles on a range of topics for traveling families.