Born on a Mountaintop by Bob Thompson

Author:Bob Thompson
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307720917
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2013-03-05T07:00:00+00:00

The Birthplace of Texas has been a ghost town for more than a century. In the 1840s, it was a thriving cotton port, with steamers operating between Washington and the Gulf Coast, but in the 1850s, its residents decided they didn’t need the railroad that proposed to come through town. Big mistake. Still, it’s not a deserted ghost town, like Jonesboro or Lost Prairie, because it’s part of a beautiful Texas historic site complete with a star-shaped museum, a living history farm, and a reconstruction of the building in which Texians finally declared independence on March 2, 1836. It also has a visitor center that sells coonskin caps and copies of Crockett’s autobiography, not to mention David Crockett dolls whose tags sum up his story in verse (“David was uncontainable and quite an impetuous child / He lived his life precariously and was often rather wild”).

The best part of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, however, was the reception I got when I walked in the visitor center door.

Mary Borgstedte was behind the register, but she came out to ask how she could help.

I explained.

“Oh, Reba’s our Davy person,” she said, making a quick phone call and leaving a message.

A few minutes later—Reba Corley, apparently, had been trying to have a quiet lunch—two grown women in park uniforms were serenading me:

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee

Greenest state in the land of the free

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