While on the lam, they held up in the stockyards at the Stockyard Hotel. While almost everyone in Fort Worth can articulate the date Elvis played the Colesium, January 20, 1956, very few remember that Bonnie and Clyde were born just outside of Dallas. Bonnie and Clyde hung out in the Stockyards in 1930s. Irish Travellers live in Fort Worth during the winter months and travel the country doing (or not doing) construction work in the summer.ģ. While the Irish Travellers claim genetic links to the Romani, and call themselves Gypsies, they tend to be louder and more visible than the Romani. The Romani are not to be confused with the Irish Travellers, these people were highlighted in the television show, the Riches. They live together in an area by the Naval Air Station called White Settlement. The Romani tend to keep to themselves with the hope of keeping their culture, language, and traditions alive. When I was in Fort Worth doing research, a waiter (the only person who had any contact with them) told me that you could always tell the Romani by their expensive clothing, purses, shoes, and jewels. They tend to be highly educated business owners.
Unlike the usual depiction of a Gypsy as a thief or trickster, the Romani are hardworking people who blend into the background in Fort Worth. Pushed for centuries from one country to the next, they come to the United States to seek asylum and live in peace.
Fort Worth is a hotbed for other elusive creatures - the Romani: Who? Gypsies.įort Worth is home to one of the largest populations of Romani in the country. They could run around for an afternoon or ten and you'd all have a blast.Ģ. Honestly, if I had little boys, I would hype them up with the Goatman story and set them loose on Greer Island. The Goat man sighting is considered by actual Bigfoot researchers (yes, there is serious scientific research into the phenomena) as one of the true sightings of these elusive creatures.The creature was described as covered in short brown hair and was very fast." ( This link has a great round of the historical sightings of these creatures.) There is one described in the " Legends of Texas published by the Texas Folklore Society in 1924. This type of creature have been seen in Texas since the 1800s.Many unrelated people saw the creature at the time. 40 - 50 people saw this creature over the course of six months.Before you dismiss the Goatman as a hoax, here are a few things to consider. This photo was taken by Allen Plaster near Greer Island. In the summer of 1969, there were a number of sightings and incidents involving a half-man, half-goat creature. A documented sighting of a Bigfoot/Mongollon Monster like creature at Lake Worth or The Lake Worth Monster or Goat man: Here's my top five fun and fascinating facts about Fort Worth.ġ. quirky, the weird tends to find me in a kind of like finds like manner.) (The whys of this would require hours on the couch. So this was a big risk, a big challenge and just a freakin' deal.īeing me, I spent the year immersed in the deeply weird, dark, and wild places of Fort Worth. I knew only three people who lived in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Writing the Queen of Cool was a huge opportunity for me as I'd never written a story outside of my hometown, Denver, Colorado.
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Through a series of events that can only be called serendipity, I spent much of the last year working on a serial fiction, the Queen of Cool, set in Fort Worth, Texas. This means the story is published as it's written, in this case, two chapters a month. My specialty is writing traditional serial fiction. This is a guest post originally posted at Momma DJane's place:įor those of you who don't know me, I'm an author who writes quirky, fun fiction about good, strong women who find themselves in life changing situations.
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