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Columns
and Columnists"Let
every fellow tell his tale about."
- Chaucer, The Knightes Tale. |
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HISTORY,
REGIONAL, TRAVEL
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 | Mike
Cox Weekly. Syndicated
in 11 newspapers
"Texas
Tales" columns >
• John
Roan Mystery 11-4-09
On Dec. 13, 1879, the
Atlanta Constitution published a brief story that should have been big news in
Texas, but somehow no editor in the Lone Star state picked up on the Georgia daily’s
report. The story dealt with the purported solution of a 29-year-old mystery in
Central Texas, the disappearance of one John Roan...
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 | C.
F. Eckhardt Monthly.
"Charley Eckhardt's Texas
" columns >
• A
Very Personal Ghost by C. F. Eckhardt 10-26-09
I’ve come to the conclusion, over the years, that when it comes to ghosts there
are two sorts of people—those who realize ghosts exist and those who don’t want
to realize it. One of the sure ways to become one of the first variety is to see
a ghost. However, even if you see a ghost, you may not realize at once what you’ve
seen. I know. It happened to me...
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 | Clay
Coppedge Twice
a month
"Letters from
Central Texas" columns >
• Temple
Houston 11-1-09
"Temple lived a short
but eventful life, usually on the often-anonymous fringes of the frontier. Like
other Texas and Old West legends, much of what has filtered down to us about Temple
Houston is pure fiction – compelling fiction, to be sure, but fiction nonetheless.
The truth is only the starting point."
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Delbert Trew Weekly.
Amarillo Globe-Sun
"It's
All Trew" columns >
• Old-timers'
tales - true or not 11-3-09
When old-timers
gather and talk about the good old days, you never know whether the story is the
real truth or exaggerated nonsense. Here are a few samples I remember or have
heard lately...
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 | Maggie
Van Ostrand National
Syndicated Columnist
"A
Balloon in Cactus" columns >
• Zapata 10-22-09
John
Steinbeck wrote it, Elia Kazan directed it, Marlon Brando starred in it: Viva
Zapata! But how close did these great artists come to the real thing? The answer
lay in a telling 1916 interview by reporter Guillermo Ojara, sent by his paper,
El Democrata of Mexico City, to interview Zapata himself. Here, greatly edited
for space, are bits of that interview...
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 | Peary
Perry Weekly. Syndicated in 80 newspapers
"Letters
from North America" columns >
• Obituaries 11-4-09
Most
of the people that I associate with suffer from the same habit. That is checking
the obituaries in the paper prior to the sports or comic pages. These days there
isn’t much sense in reading what’s on the front page as by the time it comes out
in print you’ve already heard about it on the radio, TV, internet, facebook, twitter
or your cell phone. About the only things you can’t predict are the ball scores
and someone dying...
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 | Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal
"The
Girl Detective's Theory of Everything" columns >
• MOB vs. MOG 9-24-09
This
is my first go around as Mother of the Bride and it’s been fine so far. We’ve
got the gown, got the favors, lined up the photographer, talked to the wedding
coordinator at the church. Yesterday we lucked onto just what we were needing...
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Damned
if You Do, Damned if You Don’t 9-4-09
I was
fascinated and horrified by an article written by Amy McGuire in "Advance for
Nurses" regarding the bizarre case of two Texas nurses, Vickie Galle, RN and Anne
Mitchell, RN...
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 | Dorothy
Hamm Monthly
Columns
"Words and Music"
Columns >
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The
Hustle and Bustle of the Metroplex Shuffle 9-1-09
Esteemed
writer Norman Maclean once said: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a
river runs through it.” That’s an interesting theory and is exactly what seems
to be happening with all the many cities that have sprung up here. And yes, a
river, the Trinity, does run through it... |
| | "15
Minutes of Separation"
The
Art of Porch Sitting 11-5-09
Dave Bonta is
a poet and a naturalist. He lives on the “eastern edge of western Pennsylvania”
which we suppose is something like living on the western edge of east Texas. Or
the eastern edge of west Texas. |
Endangered StoriesMiss
Bell by Harold Bell 9-1-09
Nobody in the world,
dead or alive, knew how long Miss Bell taught the fourth grade in and around Decatur,
Texas... |
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