Gini Fendler-Brown has been sharing her engaging tales about Galveston with audiences at summertime Beach Band concerts since 1989. Part history, part folklore, with a hearty dash of gossip, her five-minute "Love Letters" are legend. Her subjects range from scrappy East Enders like LeRoy Columbo, stone-deaf but credited with saving nearly one thousand lives from the treacherous Gulf surf, to Charlie Cronea, the grizzled old watermelon man of the 1890s who told anyone who would listen about his boyhood as a cabin boy in Jean Lafitte's buccaneer fleet. Join that to stories of Galveston speakeasies and gambling houses, fabled names like the Balinese Room, the Turf Club and the Hollywood Supper Club. Galveston writer and editor Max Rizley, Jr. has carefully tweaked these delightful narratives while retaining the essence of Gini's easygoing, genteel delivery, and a few of Max's own favorites set the scene for a Galveston as typical as oleander-scented breezes, and warm, seashell-pink summer's evenings. Photographs are provided by renowned Galveston photographer Robert John Mihovil.