Welcome to Texas with Bill Ingram

<p>The Texas Medical Center in Houston is the largest medical center in the world.</p>

<p>The Texas Independence Trail is a journey that takes you through some of the most important places in the story of how Texas won its independence from Mexico.</p>

<p>A quiet moment to reflect on Holy Week and the hope and promise it brings to people of faith all around the world.</p>

<p>Pasadena is famous for a lot of things...  the movie "Urban Cowboy" and Gilley's, the refineries, and strawberries.</p>

<p>The Addicks Reservoir and Barker Reservoir were built in the 1940s to help Houston with flooding problems.</p>

<p>German and Czech immigrants came to Texas in search of freedom, faith, and fertile land, trusting God.</p>

<p>Just north of Houston is a small town called New Caney. Hard working families shaped this town that feels like Texas through and through.</p>

<p>The Hermann Park Train has carried generations of Houstonians around the park for many years.</p>

<p>A small Texas town that'll shoot straight with you!</p>

<p>God doesn't want us to live in fear. When the world feels like a giant standing in front of you... God is still bigger.</p>

<p>There's a tiny spot in East Texas that once boomed big... it was Fostoria, a sawmill town. Now it's just a reminder of Texas history.</p>

<p>William Wright Baldwin founded the city of Bellaire in 1908.</p>

<p>The history of a place that helped connect Galveston to the mainland.</p>

<p>A complete history of Houston air travel awaits at this museum at Hobby Airport.</p>

<p>In January 1901, the modern oil industry was born at Spindletop.</p>

<p>It's one of the most beloved holiday plants. The poinsettias roots go all the way back to the Aztecs, but today is grown right here in the Houston area.</p>

<p>On this episode we'll talk about tamaladas, a favorite Christmas memory with my dad, I celebrate 50 years on the air in radio, and the real reason for the season, Jesus is the heart of Christmas.</p>

<p>Here in the Lone Star State, we've got a lot of traditions we hold close during the Christmas season- and when it comes to food, Texans are serious about it!</p>

<p>We'll take a Christmas roadtrip across the Lone Star State to see some of the best places to enjoy the lights, the laughter, and the love of the season.</p>

<p>When I was a kid, Christmas shopping was a whole different experience.</p>

<p>Fried turkey, the HEB Thanks giving Parade, and the Turket Trots, all to celebrate Thanksgiving.</p>

<p>Every March the small town of Sweetwater Texas comes alive  with a wild event call the Sweetwater Rattle Snake Rodeo'</p>

<p>Sugar Land was originally home to Imperial Sugar Company.</p>

<p>Texas BBQ is not just a meal, it's a way of life!</p>

<p>It's a vast rugged stretch of land that covers more than 37,000 square miles from Austin and San Antonio all the way west to the Pecos River.</p>

<p>Back in the 1700s Spainish missionaries built five missions along tghe San Antonio River.</p>

<p>The Big Country is a wide open area of Texas around Abilene, Sweetwater, and Brownwood where the sky feels like it goes on foreever.</p>

<p>It's sometimes called the Grand Canyon of Texas. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States.</p>

<p>John Henry Kirby was known as the Piney Woods King because of his timber empire.</p>

<p>The King Ranch in South Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.</p>

<p>The King Ranch is more than 825,000 acres.</p>

<p>Galveston was once the largest city in Texas, until it was nearly wiped off the map.</p>

<p>Alarm clocks have been around for centuries, but in 1956 they got an upgrade.</p>

<p>Six Flags Over Texas opened on August 1, 1961 in Arlington.</p>

<p>The most visited park in Houston is Hermann Park... home to the Houston Zoo, The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Miller Outdoor Theater, The Houston Garden Center, and a public golf course.</p>

<p>A group of Quakers bought land around the turn of last century and developed Friendswood.</p>

<p>After WWII Farm to Market Roads were created to help famers get their goods to market.</p>

<p>Before the Gulf Fwy the Galveston-Houston Interurban was a popular way between Houston and Galveston.</p>

<p>Truax Field near Corpus Christi was once home to the U.S. Navy's elite pilots and the legendary Blue Angels.</p>

<p>I got my first car when I was a freshman in high school... a 1970 Olds Cutlass... babyblue with a white top.</p>

<p>In the 1920s, Luna Park, a big amusement park in Houston, was known as the Coney Island of Texas.</p>

<p>Dr Pepper was created in Waco, Texas in 1885.</p>

<p>Indianola was once a thriving community on the shores of Matagorda Bay.</p>

<p>Depression is very real, but God want's to see you through it.</p>

<p>Old Spanish Trail is one of the oldest roads in Texas.</p>

<p>Galveston Island used to be known as "The Ellis Island of the West".</p>