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Home : New Texas Escapes Online Magazine Historic Texas & Travel October 2005 Halloween Issue The Art of Dana Forrester The Wyeth of Ghost Signs - the Vargas of Corvettes by John Troesser Photos courtesy Dana Forrester Haunting Photos of the Baker Hotel Courtesy of Jason Grant & The Nostalgic Glass Ghosts The Ghost on Milam Street by C. F. Eckhardt Seguin's Headless Ghost A Monument to the Killough Massacre by Mitchel Whitington, from "Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods" The Ghost In The Bell Jar by Loyd Auerbach from "A Paranormal Casebook: Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium" Catarina by Mike Cox Ghost town, ghost hotel, ghost story Daddy's Favorite Song by Sandy Williams Driver, from "Haunted Encounters: Departed Family and Friends" The Lightkeeper's Ghost - The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse by Mitchel Whitington, from "A Ghost in my Suitcase" The Keeper of Seul Choix Point by Ken Rudine Like many places where mortals spend a lot of time lighthouses are frequently thought to be haunted. This is one such case. Cemeteries Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery by John Troesser Black church and cemetery in Schulenburg, Texas For a tiny cemetery - a disporportionate number of veterans graves. Navidad Baptist Cemetery by John Troesser AKA the "American" Cemetery, Tubbs Cemetery and (Incorrectly Identified on 1965 Maps as) Lyons Cemetery. SE of Schulenburg Live Oaks and Dead Folks Columbus City Cemetery Tour Columbus, Texas The Yellow Fever Cemetery by John Troesser aka the Masonic Cemetery or the Wilderness Cemetery, Brenham, Texas TEXAS TOWNS > 1273 Texas Towns October 31, 2005 Saint Hedwig | La Joya - South Texas Photos by John Troesser New Wehdem | McQueeney Central Texas South Photos by John Troesser Sacul - East Texas Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Noack - Hill Country Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Grit | Streeter - Hill Country Lucas - Central Texas North Funston | Lorenzo | McCaulley - Panhandle More new TEXAS GHOST TOWNS > 286 Ghost Towns October 31, 2005 Castell | Bluffton | Lone Grove - Llano County Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone Shady Grove - Hill Country Photos by John Troesser Clara by Barbara Van Loh Peterson Zavala | Zana | Zeirath | Tallys | Ratcliff | Drusilla | Kelsey | Kiam East Texas Royalty | Best - West Texas Ayr - Panhancle More new FEATURES | TRIPS Windmills by Clay Coppedge "This may be a bitter pill for some Texans to swallow, but the windmill was not invented in Texas. Neither was the Colt revolver. Ditto barbed wire..." The Matrimonial Oak of San Saba County Texas Historic Tree New photo courtesy Barclay Gibson New text by Luke Warm Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. Photos courtesy Lou Ann Herda More new ARCHITECTURE | IMAGES > Over 9000 Images October 31, 2005 Texas Stores - New Architectural Category Country Stores, General Stores, Drugs Stores, Feed Stores... Phillips 66 Service Station by Delbert Trew On Route 66, McLean, Texas San Benito's Exotic, Eclectic Aztec Building Photos courtesy Cruse Aviation and the San Benito Historical Society Wayside School by David Higgins, Lubbock Photos Courtesy Suzan Caudle, Lubbock A Gallery of Ghost Signs in Texas Photos by Erik Whetstone, Barclay Gibson & John Troesser Churches in La Grange Churches in Calvert Above church photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Former Bandera County Jail, Bandera Brewster County Courthouse, Alpine Brewster County Former Jail, Alpine Burnet County Former Jail, Burnet Dickens County Courthouse & Jail, Dickens Eastland County Courthouse & Jail, Eastland Kendall County Jail, Boerne Mason County Courthouse, Mason Montague County Courthouse & Jail, Montague Former Robertson County Courthouse, Calvert Schleicher County Courthouse Former Stonewall County Courthouse, Rayner Above county photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Goliad County Courthouse Photo courtesy Brandi Barthels Wharton County Courthouse Under Restoration Photo courtesy Wharton County Historical Commission Bolivar Lighthouse Photos courtesy Robert Vahle & Barclay Gibson More new USA TRAVEL Mary's River Covered Bridge, Chester IL Photos courtesy Ken Rudine More new COLUMNS EDITOR & GUESTS THEY SHOE HORSES DON'T THEY HISTORICAL "All Things Historical" ARCHIE P. McDONALD The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air! 10-24-05 "Truett Kinsey’s voice came out of Philcos and Zeniths and other radios all over East Texas, and eventually much of the South, each day at noon to announce the beginning of a performance of the most popular fiddle band ever assembled..." Norris Cuney 10-10-05 "By the end of the nineteenth century, Norris Wright Cuney had become the most remarkable African American leader in Texas. Cuney technically began life as a slave..." BOB BOWMAN The Tyler Depot by Bob Bowman 10-31-05 Now a National Historic Landmark. Pickin’ at Sacul 10-4-05 "...On the fourth Saturday night of each month, amateur pickers and singers travel to Sacul -- a Nacogdoches County town that almost became a ghost town -- in search of appreciative audiences..." "Texas Tales" MIKE COX Storm of 1895 10-26-05 "... In a good year, which is to say an average year, the city at the Pass of the North enjoys only nine inches of rain. But in the spring of 1895, what fell from the sky was dust..." Jackass in Heaven 10-20-05 "Clay McGonagill may have been the ropingest cowboy Texas ever produced..." Dead Ellis 10-13-05 Docents guiding tours of Fort Concho's reconstructed hospital still tell the story of “Dead” Ellis. Catarina 10-6-05 Ghost town, ghost hotel, ghost story "Lone Star Diary" MURRAY MONTGOMERY Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army 10-17-05 "... Not only did they fight, these soldiers distinguished themselves on the battlefield..." REGIONAL "It's All Trew" DELBERT TREW Encounters of the outhouse kind make great family reunion tales 9-17-05 "Letters From Central Texas" CLAY COPPEDGE Windmills 10-16-05 "History by George" LOUISE GEORGE School Days 10-18-05 Class of '31 in Dumas HUMOR & OPINION "A Balloon In Cactus" MAGGIE VAN OSTRAND TV Corpses at Halloween 10-30-05 Dead Men Don't Talk, But Dead Women Do 10-22-05 "...Who will be the Main Dead Person of 2005? We nominate the still-great-though-dead Frida Kahlo..." Movies 10-10-05 "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." That's a movie review from a Marin County, California, newspaper. The movie it described was "The Wizard of Oz..." Same Sex Marriage? 10-1-05 "Letters From North America" PEARY PERRY Simple Mathematics 10-26-05 Hurricane Disaster Relief Nothing You Can Do 10-19-05 "Every once in a while you do something that really hurts your heart, but you can’t fix it for one reason or another. Nothing you can do, that’s just the way it is. You’ve had this happen to you, maybe you were driving down the road and a dog or cat ran out and you tried to avoid it, but you couldn’t and well, you know what happened..." Flag Burning 10-11-05 "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything" ELIZABETH BUSSEY SOWDAL Too Thrilling 10-15-05 Cellfish 10-1-05 "Not only have cell phones pretty thoroughly destroyed my fantasy life but I am no longer able to tell who is insane." "Stumbling Forward" JOHN GOSSELINK Excuse Note 10-19-05 "John doesn’t have his column this week because ..." " Words and Music" Dorothy Hamm Simpler Times and Fried Chicken 10-13-05 "... Were simpler times all that simple? ... When I was young girl, if we wanted fried chicken at our house, we first had to grow the chicken..." CARTOONS BOOKS "Moore Texas" ROGER T. MOORE 10-31-05 10-24-05 10-18-05 10-11-05 10-4-05 BOOK REVIEWS MEMOIR "Spunky Flat and Beyond" GEORGE LESTER The Louisiana Connection 10-15-05 Dances with Alligators 10-1-05 My Uncle had a fishing camp on Monterrey Lake near Vivian, Louisiana. Although it is now a lake, about three miles long and two hundred yards across at the widest point, it was once a bayou. "Rambling Ray" N. RAY MAXIE The Preacher's Kid and a Post Office Burglary 10-15-05 "Oh, The Class of '57 Had Its Dreams." McLeod High School Longhorns....... 10-1-05 More new Texas Escapes Online Magazine September 2005 & more back issues Subscribe to our Newsletter

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