OCTOBER 2008

Author and Designer Receive National Recognition

Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac received three awards of achievement recently, during the Garden Writers Association Annual Symposium in Portland, Oregon.
  The association presented two Silver Awards of Achievement to the book for best overall product and best graphic design in the book category. It also garnered a Gold Award -- the national organization's top honor -- for graphic design. Mary Ann Jacob, design manager for Texas A&M University Press received the award for graphic design. Shannon Davies, senior editor of natural sciences for the Press, collaborated with Welsh and Jacob on the volume.

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The Galveston That Was

   Originally conceived as a requiem for the faded city after the hurricane of 1900, The Galveston That Was instead helped resurrect the city. Architect-author Howard Barnstone, renowned portrait photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and architect-photographer Ezra Stoller captured the soul of the city in the book and, as a result, inspired a major and successful effort to restore Galveston's historic architectural treasures. Many of the buildings pictured in the book have since been restored, and the pace of demolition slowed dramatically after the book's initial publication.
   After Hurricane Ike, the city finds itself in an eerily similar situation. And The Galveston That Was serves again to document the architectural beauty and links to a rich heritage that hang in the balance.