By Linda Elissalde
Jane long represents the courage of the past,
the joy of the present and the hope for the future!
Every Texas school child knows that Jane Long is called the Mother of Texas. She earned this sobriquet because she gave birth to one of the first pioneer children in Texas. However, Jane did much more than that. Jane Long
Jane Long Festival
Jane Long is still going strong
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Jane Long Spread in Ranch Land Magazine
By Brenda Beust Smith
Texas Land — Land Magazine has given Jane Long and the Jane Long Festival a fabulous four-page spread in its Winter 2016 issue. If you’re not familiar with this magazine, it’s filled with incredible photography of Texas ranch lands and other massive native habitat acreage sites for sale. It also includes wonderful stories of life on Texas
Jane Long Festival THANK YOU!
By Linda Elissalde,
All of the Jane Long Festivals have been outstanding. While is hard to get a group of people to agree on anything, everyone agreed that the 2016 Jane Long Festival was the best. Cannon fire, rifle shots, fireworks, a scavenger hunt, all types of vendors, food, musical numbers, bunker tours, children’s art contest and our play
The Jane Long legend lives on
Cannons booming, pirates brandishing swords, Indians lurking, boogie woogie dancers, Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar and Jean Laffite. You name it! We had it all at the 2016 Jane Long Festival last weekend. The Festival celebrates the courage and spirit of Jane Long and the residents of Bolivar Peninsula. The Festival is held on the grounds of Fort Travis Seashore Park, with the
The Ballad of Jane Long
Original music composed by Bruce Haire
Lyrics written by Linda C. Elissalde
Jane Long, Jane Long,
Pioneer Woman brave and true.
Yes, Jane Long was a lady
Who did what she had to do.
Maryland’s beloved daughter
In Mississippi she did start.
Brave beyond her young years
Jane followed her loving heart.
She ended up in Texas
And landed on our coast.
Her brave deeds are recorded;
So Texas can proudly boast.
Jane Long, Jane Long,
Pioneer Woman brave and true.
Yes, Jane Long was a lady
Who did what she had to do.
Jane Long was most lovely
And really very sweet.
She met with pirate Jean
And swept him off (pause) La Feet.
Left alone on Bolivar
After James rode off to do what’s right,
Jane survived, used her guile
And put up quite a fight.
Jane Long, Jane Long,
Pioneer Woman brave and true.
Yes, Jane Long was a lady
Who did what she had to do.
Jane and family lived
Through that cold winter of twenty-one.
Gave birth, fought off Indians.
That’s not all that was done.
Everyone remembers
Her red petticoat flag so fine.
Took it right off her body
And ran it up the line.
Jane Long, Jane Long,
Pioneer Woman brave and true.
Yes, Jane Long was a lady
Who did what she had to do.
Jane helped the Texans
Fight for a life that was free.
With ammunition and money
She helped Texas come to be.
Many famous Texans
Proposed on bended knee.
Jane answered each with,
“James was the only one for me.”
Jane Long, “Mother of Texas”,
Pioneer Woman brave and true.
Yes, Jane Long was a lady
Who did what she had to do!
Monarch Garden Perfect Stop Before or After Jane Long Festival!
By Brenda Beust Smith
Whether you’re coming via ferry or the Jane Long Highway (87) to the big Jane Long Festival Fri.-Sat., Oct. 14-15, be sure to make a stop at the Bolivar Monarch Garden created by Keep Bolivar Beautiful & Beach Bloomers Garden Club at the Joe Faggard Community Building pavilion. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many butterflies together
Planning Committee hard at work
The Jane Long Festival Committee is hard at work planning this year’s festival to held on October 14 & 15 at Fort Travis Seashore Park. The festival has expanded to a two-day event and includes historical re-enactments, bunker tours, live music, food & craft booths, and the new Jane Long production, “A Woman for All Centuries.” For Sponsorship, Vendor, or Volunteer opportunities, please go to janelongfestival.org.
Dear Friend of Jane Long Society
The Bolivar Peninsula Cultural Foundation is again hosting the Jane Long Festival on October 14th and 15th, 2016. Help us celebrate the spirit of Jane Long in the historical and newly renovated Fort Travis Seashore Park in Port Bolivar. History, art, music and military reenactors join together in an entertaining tribute to Jane as the “Mother of Texas”. Our past supporters have helped us host several
“Jane Long” Interviewed for Daughters of American Revolution
Jane Long (aka Helen Mooty) was “interviewed” by Brenda Beust Smith in a reprisal of their delightful radio enactment recently for the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Lake Houston Chapter. Helen, retired director of the Galveston County Museum and a leading Jane Long historian, arrived at the Kingwood, TX, DAR meeting in full period attire, and skillfully gave the DAR members descriptive glimpses
Jane Long’s Men
By Linda Elissalde
The Bolivar Peninsula Cultural Foundation and Jane Long Society celebrated the completion of another successful Jane Long Festival. Volunteers gathered at the Mouton Mansion for a gala afternoon of food and drinks on Sunday, November 1, 2015. Cultural Foundation President Charlotte Stirling opened the party by announcing the Volunteer of the Year
Jane Long Festival
Another wonderful turnout on a beautiful Saturday on the Peninsula. The 6th annual Jane Long Festival successfully honored our “Mother of Texas” at Fort Travis Seashore Park, hosted by the Bolivar Peninsula Cultural Foundation. From delicious food, fun games, face painting, arts and crafts booths, and music…
