"She never was for everybody. People who go on and on about the beauty of the beaches of Hawaii and Bermuda and the Mediterranean aren't likely to be impressed by a place where the sand and the water are often the same shade of brown. But those of us who love her love her for what she is: sufficiently magnolia Southern to bask charmingly in the past, and sufficiently brash Texan to step lively in the present. Maybe Galveston sings a song that only some of us can hear. But we are legion, and we are listening. And when she gets better, we'll be back." -- Ron Rozelle