“I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.” ThinkingShouldKindUseUsedWeaponsGunHuntingAssaultJunkBansBannedFortsAssault WeaponsHomeownersAssault Weapons BanFort Worth Author:Al Gore
“[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.” GivingArtBookDoneShowsShotsPhotographMuseumsFourteenFortsRodeoLivestockFort Worth Author:Garry Winogrand
“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.” ThinkingLittlesTwoImportantCountryBigsMovingValuesHouseParentChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodRacismImportant ThingsMy FavoriteSmellCoffeeOur CountryErasKitchenHallsTexasBedroomChildhood MemoriesFortsUnitarianFavorite MemoriesUnitarian ChurchFort Worth Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.” I CanCountryFeelingsHomeBigsAmericaNew YorkSpringTownsWarmPeacefulFormerBeachFriendlyLos AngelesChicagoPalmsAdoptedBostonSan FranciscoVirginiaPhiladelphiaBluntDallasSensuousFortsHome TownBrashHedonisticPalm SpringsFort Worth Book:MARTINA Source: MARTINA
“I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.” ThinkingCountrySchoolChurchUnitedMiddleGrewGrew UpAreasClubsGroundedMiddle SchoolElementary SchoolFortsMethodistsCountry ClubsFort Worth Author:Kay Granger