WOODVILLE — The Ghosts and Legends of Texas Past storytelling event at Heritage Village took place on Saturday.
The event featured four storytellers: Sharon Sunday; Virginia Haynes; Kayden Foxworth and Patsy Morris.
Sunday, who spoke from the Village Green stage, told stories set in historic Galveston. The first was about St. Mary’s Sisters of Charities Orphanage of the 1890s and the devastation of the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
The second one was a tragic story about The Lovelorn Bride to Be of Room 501. Both stories were based on real facts. Not all ghost stories are scary. The ghosts of the orphans and the sisters and Audra the Bride to Be still haunt the famous Hotel Galvez. The children tragically lost their lives in front of the hotel and in the area that the hotel was built on. The orphanage was completely swept away.
Haynes spun a tale in the old Barbershop. The story of the Battle of San Jacinto and the seldom mentioned heroine Emily West Martin and the part she played in that historic day.
Foxworth told a tale in the Pickett House Restaurant titled “ Lesson after Dark”. The story was full of surprises for all. It included special loud banging noises for effect.
Morris told a story right here in Tyler County, about Peachtree Village, as well as one called “The Diamond Lady of LaBelle,” and lastly a story of John Lafitte of Sabine Pass.
