With significant projects like The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, Citizens Tower, and the Cotton Court Hotel, the resiliency of our community is depicted in each historic building and new structure. Now, Lubbock’s downtown is exhibiting a new birth of activity as revitalization efforts continue to shape the downtown of today. In a matter of half an hour, the thriving heart of the city turned into ground zero for one of the most devastating natural disasters of its time. “The impact of the infamous 1970 tornado changed the culture of Lubbock forever. It was the first documented F5 tornado, Osborne explained: On May 11,1970, the Lubbock Tornado struck the city, plowing through downtown and taking the lives of 26 people. Soon after my arrival, in the beautiful open-air courtyard at the Cotton Court Hotel enjoying the drink of Lubbock, a Chilton, John Osborne, President and CEO of the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance and Visit Lubbock, welcomed us with a dramatic story. I fell under the spell of the “Hub City” of West Texas: its quirkiness, the high plains (Lubbock sits at 3,202 feet you can see for miles), its culture, food, and people - not to mention Lubbock is the hometown of Buddy Holly and the home of Texas Tech University. Recently I flew to Lubbock, Texas, to join a small group of travel writers (all vaccinated) on a press trip. As we visited right after my birthday, she prepared this tasty Atlantic Beach Pie. Janice generously shares her cooking and entertaining skills. This local connection was even featured in the very first issue of Evansville Living.ġ0.
And to think the iconic artwork of Nauset Light on the chip bag was painted by Posey County native Elizabeth Mumford. These chips are made in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on the Cape, and nearly always served with lobster rolls.
Watch Shark Week programs on Discovery Network or download the Sharktivity app on your mobile device you will see that Cape Cod is the epicenter of North American shark activity.ĩ. Where there are fishing boats, there are sea lions, and where there are sea lions, there are sharks!Ħ. We always visit the National Seashore in Wellfleet at Cahoon Hollow Beach, where we also eat at the Beachcomber - and buy the Comfort Colors T-shirts to prove it.ĥ.
Kennedy, encompasses 43,607 acres (68.1 square miles) on Cape Cod and includes nearly 40 miles of seashore along the Atlantic-facing eastern shore. The Beachcomber and the Cape Cod National Seashore. It is known for its beaches, harbor artists, tourism industry, and as a popular vacation destination for the LGBTQ+ community.Ĥ. Today, “P-town” has a year-round population of 3,664 and a summer population as high as 60,000. After two days of failed attempts, they returned to the safety of the harbor known today as Provincetown Harbor, set anchor and drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact.
9, 1620, the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod while attempting to sail to the Colony of Virginia. Provincetown then is the tip of your fingers.Ģ. The southern portion of the Cape represents the "upper arm," Chatham the elbow, and the north–south portion is the "lower arm," or forearm. Here are my favorite things about Cape Cod:ġ. We have been fortunate to visit these friends, originally from New York and Connecticut, several times and were eager to return. Owing to friends with a lovely second home, our family spent a long weekend on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, this summer.