La Réu­nion was a social­ist Utopian com­mu­nity founded in 1855 by French, Bel­gian, and Swiss colonists approx­i­mately three miles west of the present Reunion Arena and Reunion Tower in down­town Dal­las, and near the forks of the Trin­ity River. The com­mune was led by the French philoso­pher Fran­cois Marie Charles Fourier whose fol­low­ers and associates […]

I live in Dal­las, and as far as I can tell, other than the first 7–11 and, of course, the JFK assas­si­na­tion, Dal­las doesn’t have a lot of tales, but by gum we did have our very own Nazi POW camp towards the end of WWII. The 3 and a half acre camp, which was a […]

The atomic bomb test­ing por­tion of the Man­hat­tan Project, code named the Trin­ity Project, had 8 pos­si­ble test sites. These pos­si­ble sites were [1. I got this list from World Wide School.] — The Tularosa Basin near Alam­ogordo, NM The lava beds (now the El Mal­pais National Mon­u­ment) south of Grants, NM (which could have […]

The pub­lic­ity stunt known as the “Crash at Crush” hap­pened on Sept. 15, 1896 [1. For more about the 100th anniver­sary you can read the Bay­lor Uni­ver­sity Lariat’s account here.]. It took place at the short-lived (one day, to be exact) town of Crush, TX., near Waco. A loco­mo­tive crash staged sev­eral months ear­lier by the […]