Views of the Neighborhood – Rockport Texas

~ John W. Howell

Rockport Texas is a town close to Port Aransas and was hit by Hurricane Harvey as well. Since the sun was out for the first time in ten years, the Producer and I decided to drive there and check up on how my books fared in the bookstores. Although we didn’t locate any books we found a number of things to look at.

Rockport Fulton Market Days

This is a shot of a multi-tiered boat storage facility.

Here is one a little closer. This facility was packed with boats when the Hurricane hit.

Here is a shot of old town Rockport. (Excuse the sun glare) The brick gallery (Estelle Stair) is one place where my books are. The gallery is closed. The other place where my books were offered for sale is a bookstore which was blown away.

Here is a photo of across the street. You can see the blue tarp on the building.

I took this photo to give you an idea that Rockport is indeed on the water. This is one of the marinas.

This is a shot of the veteran’s memorial. There are names of Rockport residents who gave their lives in all the wars from 1914 on.

This is the Maritime Museum.

Unknown to us, the Rockport Fulton Market Days was in full swing. A number of pop-up with all kinds of crafts. We had to go look.

Attendees can visit this display and take what they need at no charge.

Here is a “look through” shot showing other displays

A festive occasion.

Terrific yard art

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A beautiful Airstream full of clothes

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Must have a food stand.

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For Dan Antion, I had to take a picture of the soft pretzel booth

Let me leave you with a picture of the bay and beautiful sculpture.

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Published by John W. Howell

I have been working in business for over forty years and now have the time to work in special areas of interest. My passion has always been to create compelling stories of fiction. I have authored six novels and am working on my Seventh. The first novel is still in manuscript form and being utilized as a door stop in the laundry room. The second is a contemporary fiction novel of 89,000 words and is complete and I am currently seeking a publisher. I also write poetry but have not had the guts to share any with anyone. The one time I read a piece to a person their only comment was, “it doesn’t rhyme.” I will continue to write and hopefully my blog, Fiction Favorites at www.johnwhowell.com will provide some entertainment and an interesting thought or two. I live in the Austin area with my wife Molly and an assortment of loving pets.

61 thoughts on “Views of the Neighborhood – Rockport Texas”

  1. What a fun way to spend a sunny day! It’s heartwarming to see how the area is coming back to life. I love the sculpture with its suggestion of waves, and of course, the bay is beautiful. 🙂

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  2. Good morning, John. Thanks for a lovely stroll through a nearby neighborhood. Rockport is a charming place. While there are certainly worse things to damage than boats, that thought freaked me out. Stack upon stack of heavy boats taking a tumble…
    Sad about the book stores though.
    I enjoyed the market. I’d like to put that collection of chickens under my front window — just to watch all my snobby pretentious neighbors have a hissy fit…. 😈 But I’d get fined more that ten times the cost of the chickens…
    Have a wonder-filled new week. Hugs.

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  6. For years, I had a customer in Rockport, and spent a lot of time there. Did you happen to get over to Key Allegro? Such a lovely place. Some people I know established an organic farm outside Rockport (Four String Farm) and provide farm shares to the community: pastured meat, eggs, veggies, and so on. They’re interesting, accomplished people, and they’re on the way back from the storm, too.

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    1. Yes, Linda we got to Key Allegro. We have friends there. The community was hard hit and most of the mid century homes were pretty much destroyed. Thanks for your interest.

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  8. Good morning, John,
    And thx. for showing those pictures. Ever since I heard of Rockport being very severely hit by Harvey, I’ve kept wondering, how that area [Key Allegro], where looked for houses when we were thinking of moving, fared. I think we might have been really lucky to have decided not to move there [or to Port A, for that matter] but here to Fredericksburg.
    Have a great Sunday,
    Pit

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        2. 😀 How high was the flood surge of Harvey? Do you know?
          We built our new garage just above the 100-year flood line of a wet weather creek. So, hopefully, that’ll be fine.

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  9. Thansk for the tour, John and for the shout-out. It’s good to know there are pretzels available. Pluses and minuses, it’s all about pluses and minuses when ranking towns. I’ll give Rockport pluses for pretzels and for having your books and for rebuilding. It’s amazing how much time it takes. Good luck to all involved.

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  12. Good pictures, John. It’s great at least one of the bookstores survived, but a shame about the other store, the boat storage facility, and all the lovely boats that were damaged. The town seems to be doing well so far. Some parts seem to have survived beautifully or been completely rebuilt. 🙂 — Suzanne

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  13. Glad you got out to enjoy the sunshine! The devastation is still wide-spread, as we can see from your photos. It will literally take years to rebuild everything. Thanks for sharing these photos, John.

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  14. This is a great tour of Rockport, John. Glad to see evidence that they are recovering from Harvey too. That boat storage facility was shocking.

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  15. I find it fascinating how peaceful the beach can look one minute and how turbulent it can look in another. Guess that’s like a strong wind pruning the trees. These are great photos, John. Y’all had an excellent day for touring!

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  18. Great views of Rockport, John. That sculpture at the end? I saw it on Instagram. Your photo was right next to a photo from somebody else OF something else, but it had the same shape as the sculpture! It was so cool I screenshot it–unfortunately it’s only a bit of each photo so you can’t see the connection in it haha.

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  19. John, what a charming, pretty little town. Sorry to hear about your books–bet you never saw that,of all things, coming. Lovely pictures. I could live there if not for the intense heat.

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  22. I like the glare and the brick facade of the bookstore.

    The market looked like a great thing to happen upon. I liked the airstream, and yard art. I think those Airstreams are making a comeback. I saw a sales lot full of them on Saturday.

    The marina is gorgeous! I loved those reflections.

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  24. Thanks for the stroll through Rockport. It’s so sad to see the devastation left by the storms of 2017, but heartening to see that the residents are bringing the town to life. The sculpture in the last photo is truly an interesting site. That Airstream is gorgeous and what I wouldn’t give to have one like it.

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