Museum of South Texas in Edinburg houses important Plan of San Diego papers, Basilio Ramos' jail cell
On June 11, Genie and I had the pleasure of visiting the Museum of South Texas and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I did not expect to find a first class museum in the small town of Edinburg, population 77,100. Well maybe its not the small town I remembered from years ago but it certainly is no metropolis. Met with Shan Rankin, Executive Director of the Museum of South Texas and René Ballesteros, Archival Assistant . We walked around the exhibits and were genuinely impressed. Not only are they very informative and relevant they included genuine artifacts in very professionally done exhibit surroundings. Forgive me if I do not use the correct terminology but needless to say it was all very enlightening and entertaining. Halfway through our tour, we were met by Shan Rankin, Executive Director of the museum. Shan and I have a mutual friend and we both worked for Senator John Tower circa 1975; she was in the Dallas office and I in the Austin district office. We had a good time re...