Can Galveston Make a Comeback?
Julia Ramey | Mon, Jan 12th, 2009 | Category: Interviews | City: Houston | Tags: houston, julia ramey, casino gambling, hurricane ike, university of texas medical branch, galveston, houston press, the strand, john lomax, mobile Even Houstonians, who live less than an hour away from Galveston, can easily forget about the small island city. Part of this is due to the city’s geographical detachment from the Texas mainland; there’s just a skinny stretch of highway connecting the two. But there’s a psychological detachment as well: Galveston residents are proud of their city’s reputation as a low-key haven from the big, muggy city to the north. Unfortunately, all of this contributed to Galveston’s being largely forgotten at the worst possible time, just following its near-annihilation by Hurricane Ike in September. In an insightful, sad and important article about the ongoing recovery, Houston Press writer John Nova Lomax says that the hurricane marked “the end of a storied American city as
