This is a very well attended, famous event.  Ron Wyatt is not only a superb organist but an entertaining raconteur.  The church's 4,000 pipe Austin organ is the instrument of the angels. Houstonian Edgar Moore's Sons of Orpheus Choir for years has joined Mr. Wyatt at the Trinity Pipe Organ Extravanza!  They'll be there again this year! ************************ TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH PIPE ORGAN EXTRAVAGANZA!  A Dickens Evening on the Strand Tradition Saturday, December 03, 2011, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Trinity Episcopal Church, 2216 Ball (Avenue H) TICKETS: 409 765-6317 Click here to see my TV Pieces - Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories Organist Ronald Wyatt Click here for a flyer The popular Pipe Organ Extravaganza, featuring internationally acclaimed concert organist Ronald Wyatt, returns Sa... 11/03/2011

HENRY WIENCEK AND E. DOUGLAS MC LEODTaken in the Foyer of the Moody Mansion Galveston, Texas started its life as a city with a lot of families who would become rich as a result of the many businesses a very prolific and active seaport would sustain. One of those families, the family of Colonel William Lewis Moody, his wife and children, came to Texas in the late 1850s and settled in Galveston a few years later. Col. Moody and his son, W.L. Moody, Jr., built an empire whose foundation was cotton compressing, wharf ownership, and banking.  At the turn of the century, a life insurance company was added that would sell small weekly-premium insurance policies to the working class.  It grew into a huge company, the American National Insurance Co., and it still maintains its home office in Ga... 07/28/2010

REDUCED TO $308,000 Preface My formative years as a Realtor involved listing and selling Galveston historic homes and renovating a number of them myself.  In addition, I was one of the most active participants in the adaptive restoration of the iron front buildings on Strand and Mechanic streets. The real estate firm that I founded was called The Old House Company. And for many years, my wife and I lived in one of those homes that we had restored.  It was at 1320 Ball. And we restored and owned a building on the southeast corner of 24th and Strand which we named Peter Gengler Market, after a famous grocery store that once operated in the city. While we now live in Dallas and no longer own any real estate in Galveston, I continue to maintain an acute interest in the historical facet of t... 04/26/2010