The people, places and stories that make Matagorda County home.
The Bay City Lions aren’t trying to build a new Rice Festival. In some ways, they’re trying to bring back the old one. The Bay City Lions aren’t trying to build a new Rice Festival, but they are making significant changes. In some ways, those changes seem to reflect the Rice Festival’s past. Not the…
Before the queen, the parade, and the carnival, bay city threw a party for a crop that was changing everything about its town and its tradition. For weeks, the photographs appeared in store windows around the square. Banners fluttered above downtown streets. The courthouse lawn became a carnival. Children waited for rides on the Lions’ miniature…
A new place for community, context and connection in Matagorda County.