Sail training on ELISSA gives the participants the once-in-a-lifetime chance to sail onboard a historic sailing ship from 1877 and literally, sail history! Don’t think you are a climber? No problem, we have needs for people of all abilities. ELISSA’s sail training is an adventure activity for people of all ages and abilities. Young and […]

Galveston Historical Foundation invites you to enjoy historic downtown Galveston for the 2025 Strand Summer Series! These movie and music nights are located in The Strand’s principal parks and feature free-to-the-public concerts and movies from April through September.

Presented by Daniel P. Ott, Ph.D., National Park Service Transcending race, religion and nationality, the Underground Railroad (UGRR) joined the American ideals of liberty and freedom expressed in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution with the extraordinary actions of men and women working in common purpose to free a people. Historian and Western Regions Coordinator […]

GHF’s Executive Director Dwayne Jones and outgoing president Cesar Hernandez will lead the 2025 GHF annual meeting at the 1859 Ashton Villa. The main order of business is the election of officers and directors for 2025-2026, along with an overview of GHF’s accomplishments over the past fiscal year. The GHF annual meeting will include the […]

Galveston Historical Foundation invites you to enjoy historic downtown Galveston for the 2025 Strand Summer Series! These movie and music nights are located in The Strand’s principal parks and feature free-to-the-public concerts and movies from April through September.

Galveston Historical Foundation invites you to enjoy historic downtown Galveston for the 2025 Strand Summer Series! These movie and music nights are located in The Strand’s principal parks and feature free-to-the-public concerts and movies from April through September.

With their hot-rodded fusion of dazzling high-speed guitar runs, thundering rhythms, high-profile swagger, and lyrical smirk, The Reverend Horton Heat are perhaps the most popular psychobilly artists of all time, their recognition rivaled only by the esteem generated by the genre’s founders, the Cramps. The Reverend (as both the band and its guitar-playing frontman are […]

Join us for a lively lunchtime lecture that separates tall tales from true history as we dive into the colorful past of Galveston Island! From pirate legends and buried treasure to the bustling days of "the Wall Street of the South," we’ll explore what’s fact, what’s fiction, and what might be a little bit of […]