Critics Accuse Group of a Serious Texas Sin: Forgetting the Alamo (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By JAMES McKINLEY
Published: December 4, 2010
For 105 years, a private organization of women descended from Texas pioneers has been taking care of the Alamo with very little oversight by the state.
But in the last year members of the group, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, have found themselves besieged and divided. Dissidents have accused the leaders of caring more about building a $36 million library and theater nearby than about preserving the site’s old church and priest’s quarters, the only buildings remaining at the Spanish mission where at least 189 Texan rebels died fighting the Mexican Army in 1836.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05alamo.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=alamo&st=cse
By JAMES McKINLEY
Published: December 4, 2010
For 105 years, a private organization of women descended from Texas pioneers has been taking care of the Alamo with very little oversight by the state.
But in the last year members of the group, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, have found themselves besieged and divided. Dissidents have accused the leaders of caring more about building a $36 million library and theater nearby than about preserving the site’s old church and priest’s quarters, the only buildings remaining at the Spanish mission where at least 189 Texan rebels died fighting the Mexican Army in 1836.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05alamo.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=alamo&st=cse
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