Tough Talk Radio Network

Tough Talk with Tony Gambone and his guest Myra Hargrave McIlvain & Mary Black Myra Hargrave McIlvain is a teller of Texas tales. Whether she is sharing the stories in her books, her lectures, or her blog, she aims to make the Texas story alive. She has free-lanced as a writer of Texas historical markers and had five books published about Texas history and its famous and infamous sites. Her articles have appeared in newspapers all over the country and in magazines such as Texas Highways. McIlvain lectures for all five of the OLLI Continuing Education Programs at the University of Texas, for Lifetime Learning Institute, and for other venues in the Austin area. The award-winning Stein House, McIlvain’s second historical fiction, paints a compelling family saga of German immigrants thrust into the bustling Texas seaport of Indianola between 1853 and the fierce 1886 hurricane that destroyed the town. Mary Black is a former competitive sled dog racer, turned health nut. For 22 years I focused on training and