Century-Old Mezuzah Rescued from Local Ruins When a Cowtown couple began restoring a ramshackle, century-old bungalow in the Fairmount National Historic District, they realized that

Russian “barbarities” horrified Fort Worth in 1903 Special to the Star-Telegram By Hollace Ava Weiner Handbills posted on tree trunks and street signs across Fort

Stained Glass: Through the Prism of Time By Hollace Ava Weiner           An inspiring exhibit of antique stained glass, on display

Christmas Skyline: A Mid-Century Time Capsule Artist Lucille Kennedy sent her friends custom-made Christmas cards with original sketches and hand-painted highlights.  In the early 1960s,

Red Goose Landmark Proves to be a Nest Egg Shoehorned in the middle of a downtown block with trendy Reata Restaurant and a vacant Uno

The Gentling Twins From birds in the bottomlands to the dome of the Bass Hall Scott and Stuart Gentling,  arguably Fort Worth’s most famous fraternal

Wave of Nostalgia for Forest Park Pool as We Know It Last chance for a swim?  Ft Worth’s Forest Park Pool To be demolished,  replaced

She Brought Gourmet Cuisine to Cowtown Kitchens Star-Telegram History Column  By Hollace Ava Weiner When New York native Florence Meltzer Simon, a dental assistant and

Texas from a nine-year-old’s point of view Nine-year-old Doris Rae Levy died May 24, 1936, without ever seeing the Lone Star flag she won in

Local Immigrant Popularized Coin Collecting Around the World Star-Telegram Local History Column, April 2021 By Hollace Ava Weiner Max Mehl, an immigrant lad who clerked

A Hayride Out of Ukraine Pauline’s earliest memory of Ukraine was the clip-clop of horses hooves pulling a hay wagon that jostled to-and-fro as she

Peddler’s 1911 Murder Haunts Descendant Myrna Bye wanted more details about the murder of her grandfather, an immigrant fruit peddler shot to death in 1911

Our Boys The First World War, touted as The War to End All Wars, had such massive casualties from lethal gas and aerial bombings that

BLACK LIVES MATTERED Black lives mattered to Rabbi Robert J. Schur, who spoke from the pulpit at Beth-El Congregation in soft, prophetic cadences.  Following Bloody