Austin Founder Lions Club

From Texas Historical Markers to German Immigration and Beyond

  • 25 Feb 2021
  • 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM
  • via Zoom

From Texas Historical Markers to German Immigration and Beyond

DATE: February 25, 2021  12:30 pm via Zoom


 Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Introduced by Lion Norman Tyring

Texas Historical Markers reveal Texas tales that are rarely found in history books.

While writing historical markers, McIlvain was captured by the immigrant stories of Germans who swept across Central Texas and the Hill Country.

That fascination led to eleven books about early settlement in Texas

About our Speaker:

Myra Hargrave McIlvain is a teller of Texas tales. Whether she is sharing the stories in her books, her lectures, or her blog, she aims to make the Texas story alive.

She has free-lanced as a writer of Texas historical markers, written articles for newspapers all over the country and for magazines such as Texas Highways.  McIlvain has written six nonfiction books about famous and infamous Texas sites and characters. Her most recent, Texas Tales, Stories that Shaped a Landscape and a People, is a collection of 113 of her most popular Texas history blog posts.

McIlvain’s historical fiction includes Stein House and The Doctor’s Wife, both of which chronicle the development of the thriving German seaport of Indianola on the Texas coast. 

The characters in those award-winning books have returned in Waters Plantation an award-winning sequel that opens in 1875 post Reconstruction Washington County.

A Long Way Home is McIlvain’s eleventh book––the tale of a woman whom everyone thinks died on 9/11. Instead, she is living a new life in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Visit her website: TALES TOLD WITH A TEXAS TWANG


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