Few places in Texas capture a child’s imagination quite like Galveston. Maybe it’s because of the Island’s rich history. For many years, the heavily tattooed native Karankawa tribe fished there, greasing their bodies with alligator oil as an insect repellent. Spanish explorers had begun charting the coast by the early 1500s, pirates hauled their booty onshore in the 1800s, and in 1900 a devastating hurricane killed more than six thousand. Afterward, in a major engineering feat, the entire city was raised off the ground (in some areas by as much as seventeen feet). Read the rest of Katy Vine’s account of her carefully designed, kid-friendly romp through a historic city by the sea from the May 2014 issue.SEE + DOLa King’s Confectionery // A just…The post Trip Guide: Galveston appeared first on Texas Monthly.