The Cultivation of Creative Genius
That is what our Austin Sun past symbolizes for many of us today. It was the printed display of a life in a time that transformed a nation and a generation. …
Published and unpublished articles by members
Articles about the people who contributed to the Austin Sun in it’s heyday.
Images from the past. Send us your photos and we will post them here for all to enjoy.
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We are looking for photos taken at the Austin Sun or of Sun staff and contributors. If you have any photos, we’d love to post them here for all to enjoy once again. You can email scans of your photos to editor@austinsunreunion.com or if you do not have access to a scanner, we can scan them for you and return the orginals. See the Contact page for information.
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Tell us your stories about your personal rememberances of the Austin Sun – the paper, the people, the times, life in Austin, the articles, photos, music scene and more. We’d love to hear from everyone – writers, editors, photographers, artists, advertisers, typesetters, pasteup and layout staff and anyone else who contributed in any way to the Austin Sun. Tell us your stories in the comment box below. Longer articles can be emailed to editor@austinsunreunion.com for publication.
We pay tribute to those who came before us. The Rag was an underground paper published in Austin, Texas from 1966-1977. The sixth member of the Underground Press Syndicate, The Rag was one of the most influential of the early underground papers, known for its unique blend of radical politics, alternative culture and humor.
A growing list of the staff members and contributors to the Sun. Help us make this list grow with your remembrances.
Who knew I would ever see any of those people again? Part of me had hoped I wouldn’t. Embarrassing memories are better left alone! My most embarrassing memories…they were from my twenties in the seventies. I lived right smack in the middle of a culture ushered in by counter-culture leaders of the sixties.
Photographer Ave Bonar has responded to our call for photos and quickly sent this one. She will be sending more, which will be posted to this page after she gets a current project behind her.
How the Austin Sun Reunion came to be. A meeting between ex-staffers, Deb Stall and Bill Hood in Santa Barbara, California.
The party’s over but the memories remain. The reunion held at Dave’s house on the banks of the Colorado River was a smashing success with a number of past staff members and a few others showing up to renew old acquaintances.
Dean Rabourn died of an apparent heart attack earlier this month. He was most well known for his audio production of the Austin City Limits television show. Lately, he had worked with Audio Illusionists on …
Does anyone remember this photo from October 21, 1977? Ken Hoge sent it along with what he remembers of the shot, but we’d like to hear your remembrances as well.
FLASHBACK May of 1974 or 1975, a young girl of 21, hard-earned Bachelor of Science Degree in Advertsing and Resume in hand. That was me. I had just landed “a job” with The Austin Sun working on straight commission.
