The Winedale Historical Center will hold a talk titled ”The Great Storm of 1900: The Rise and Destruction of Nineteenth-Century Galveston” on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at noon.Award-winning historian Andrew Torget will discuss the improbable rise of Galveston from an abandoned sandbar in 1836 to its emergence as the most important port city in the American Southwest by 1895. Then, in 1900, ...