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"ALL
THINGS HISTORICAL"
A weekly column syndicated in 70 East Texas newspapers
by
Bob Bowman &
Archie P. McDonald, PhD
Disasters &
Environment
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- The
Emporia Mystery by Bob Bowman 3-29-06
In the early 1900s, an explosion and fire spread throughout the
old Emporia sawmill in south Angelina County. An estimated 30
sawmill workers, most of them black, are believed to have perished
in the conflagration...
- New
London School Explosion by Archie P. McDonald 9-25-06
Dr. Bobby H. Johnson, my long-time colleague at Stephen F. Austin
State University, has written a play based on the New London School
Explosion which occurred on March 18, 1937...
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Tragedy's Museum by Bob Bowman 3-14-05
New London Museum
- The
Mittie Stephens Disaster by Archie P. McDonald 2/13/04
A steamboat disaster in Caddo Lake
- The
Lost Forest by Bob Bowman 5/10/02
- New
London School Explosion by Archie P. McDonald 12/15/01
- The
Galveston Storrn by Archie P. McDonald 8/19/01
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