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We also ran a concession stand down by the River and rented paddle boats
and had music from the Juke box. There was a little Caf6 where we would go to
get cherry cokes, yum, I can still taste it.
Down by the River there was an old boat house that was all boarded up. We
wondered what it was like when it was in use. It resembled a large ship made of
rock, with portals. I wonder if it is still there, if our old house is still there. Now I
live in California and finally got on the Internet. So I started searching for infor-
mation on Christoval to see if I could find anything. I did a search on small
towns of Texas and came across the "Handbook of Texas" site. I read the article
on the History of Christoval and there was an e-mail address, so I commented on
the article and I received a response. So if your looking for memories of the
past, don't give up, it's there, somewhere, you just have to find the right people
to help, and keep searching. Maybe someday my husband and children, who are
all raised in California, will understand my connection to the small town life. If
someday we can take that vacation from our work and busy lives, to go back to
that place I liked so much, Christoval Texas.
When My Texas is operative, that comment will be linked to the article
on Christoval. The idea is that, after reading the history of Christoval,
or an organization, biography, or whatever, you can then look at first-
hand comments like this from people who grew up there, worked
there, knew the person, etc.-My Texas will be limited only by the imag-
ination of our users.
We expect the first results from a pilot project to digitize the
Southwestern Historical Quarterly by the end of the summer. Our goal is to
make the first one hundred volumes of the Quarterly available alongside
the online Handbook, both separate and as a part of the same database.
That will mean that the two most important sources on the history of
Texas will be available for electronic search by word.
What other doors will this "Digital Gateway" open for us? We are not
sure, because we are still thinking and planning. But as we sat discussing
these ideas with our Guam visitors, we began to reflect on just how much
we have accomplished with the online Handbook. We have been moving
at a rapid pace. Much about the TSHA has already changed-for the
good, I am sure-but changed just as surely. We probably receive ten or
fifteen e-mails per day in connection with the online Handbook, for
example, and these correspondents expect to be answered. And some of
the answers are not easy. They require research, verification, documen-
tation. Others may seem impossible, but they must all be answered.
Nor have we yet plumbed the depth of research material that may be
available to put online. What about other Texas journals, such as the
East Texas Historical Journal, the Year Book of the West Texas Historical
Association, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review? Some have already
said that they would like to be involved, to have their journals digitized139
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