by joscottcoe | Aug 1, 2021 | women's history
UT Austin Memorial, 50th Anniversary. 1 August 2016 (photo by Justin Scott-Coe) For all the folks who survived this horrible day on the UT Austin campus, and to those who did not make it through to August 2–including two women, Kathleen and Margaret, who were...
by joscottcoe | Aug 5, 2016 | creative, Culture, history, women's history, writing
This is not a scoop. This is not an insider tell-you-anything. This is not the beginning or the end or the first or the last word. The heat was unrelenting. Here came the bagpipes. The procession. The tolling of the bell. The stopping of the clock. Dear diary: I was...
by joscottcoe | Jun 10, 2016 | Culture, history, women's history
This weekend is the “mega” reunion in Needville, TX, for graduates of Needville High School classes from 1960 through 1971. One bright face will be sadly missing again this year, but she has not been forgotten. I would like to honor her spirit here, too....
by joscottcoe | Apr 30, 2016 | Culture, history, women's history
On August 1, 1966, the world heard Charles Whitman’s gunshots as he shot and killed people he didn’t know from the top of the tower at UT Austin. It was the first mass shooting captured on television in the heart of a college campus...
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