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August
2012 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. |
| Towns
& Ghost Towns Toyah
Reeves Co Update 8-30-12Alleyton
Colorado Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson
& Nesbitt Memorial Library 8-24-12Oakland
Colorado Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Nesbitt Memorial
Library 8-29-12
Bernardo Colorado Co Photos courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library
8-24-12Novohrad
Lavaca Co Photo courtesy Fayette County Heritage Museum & Archives 8-30-12
Saxet
Shelby Co Ghost Town Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-22-12Duff
Shelby Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-22-12 |
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Column
Anecdotes
on Antidotes, Early Stop Smoking Claims by Mike Cox 8-30-12
While
80 percent of the American population smoked cigarettes or consumed tobacco in
other ways, some people as far back as the 1890s concluded that sucking smoke
into your lungs could not be a good thing for your body... |
| Courthouse
Randall
County Courthouse Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 8-21-12
Jail
Prison
House Photos courtesy Brenda Davis 8-20-12
"In
the late 1800's and 1900's my house served as a prison house..." | |
Columns
To
Tweet or Not to Tweet: That is the Question by Maggie Van Ostrand
8-19-12
Nobody
sits down to compose a letter these days. Instead, they talk, text, or Tweet,
so we've prepared a time-saver for those hipsters, geeks, and Twitteristas who
haven't the time to reduce the classics to Twitter's required 140 characters,
counting spaces... Three
Tragedies by Bob Bowman 8-19-12
An
intriguing family mystery spanning more than 135 years is told by three tombstones
lying behind a rusting iron fence in a small East Texas cemetery. |
Towns
& Ghost Towns
Oak Flats Rusk Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-18-12Emberson
Lamar Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-17-12
Slate Shoals
Lamar Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-17-12 |
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| Columns
Sam
Bell Maxey by Clay Coppedge 8-18-12
To
the people he served in his lifetime he was respected as the man who kept the
Yankees out of Texas during the war.Jamming
at the Rice Hotel by Mike Cox 8-16-12
Imagine
some 3,000 people crowded into a hotel lobby on a sultry summer afternoon waiting
to use the elevators in the days before air conditioning...
Chili Powder Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 8-16-12 |
| | David
Levi Kokernot by Wanda Orton 8-15-12
Never
before or since he made his home on the shores of Scott’s Bay – and later on Cedar
Bayou -- has Texas experienced such a colorful and controversial character. Radio’s
Vandy Anderson and Fr. Frank Fabj Had a Common Denominator by Bill Cherry
8-14-12
If
you were to interview almost any man whose career is in the field of radio broadcasting,
you would find that as a child he was making believe that he was on the air. Vandy
V. Anderson, Jr. was one of those. |
Modern
terms' origins intriguing by Delbert Trew 8-14-12
“American
Yesterday,” a 1956 book by Eric Sloane, tells of the origins of many terms handed
down to modern times. |
| Towns
Ben
Wheeler Van Zandt Co Texas Escapes' 2800th town Photos
courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-13-12
Edom
Van Zandt Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-13-12Medina
Bandera Co GLO vintage map 8-15-12Bluff
Bandera Co GLO vintage map 8-14-12Tarpley
Bandera Co GLO vintage map 8-13-12Noxville
Kimble County GLO vintage map 8-14-12Vidor
Orange Co 8-13-12 | |
Columns
Korley’s
Kolumns by Bob Bowman 8-12-12
Some seventy years ago, a self-educated farmer and justice of the peace in Henderson
County starting writing letters to the Athens Daily Review. In a few months, Cicero
Witt Corley was so popular that he was given a regular newspaper column he called
“Korley’s Kolumn.” |
| Towns
Spring
Creek San Saba Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-10-12
Loma
Alta McMullen County Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-11-12
Hodges
Jones Co Photos courtesy Kasey Dockens 8-11-12 Nugent
Jones Co Photos courtesy Kasey Dockens 8-8-12McNorton
Nueces Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-8-12 |
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Columns
Never
shake hands with a stucco man by Delbert Trew 8-7-12
If
you have ever wondered why so many old houses are still standing, it’s probably
because the sides are coated with a concrete process called stucco.Oh
Possum by David Knape 8-6-12The
Makeup Drawer by Maggie Van Ostrand 8-6-12
"Drawer,"
in this case, refers to a now-massive box of cosmetics that hasn't been investigated
in many years, not even when I dump the makeup from one old box into a bigger
one, which happens every time we move... |
Columns
Tex
Ritter - A Texas Original by C. F. Eckhardt 8-5-12
Woodward
Maurice Ritter was born near Murvaul, Panola County, in the piney woods of deep
East Texas in 1907. He grew up on a cotton farm near Beaumont and graduated as
Valedictorian of his high-school class. He enrolled at what was then the only
University of Texas...Death
Superstitions by Bob Bowman 8-5-12
In early East Texas, the death of a family member or friend was a serious event
surrounded by traditional rituals... Death was also accompanied by a variety of
superstitions, some of which are still respected in the homes of our grandparents.Wilson
Pottery by Clay Coppedge 8-4-12
"Hiram
and the other Wilsons who, in bondage and as free men, created durable and practical
stoneware that today is worth more than what any of the Wilson potters made in
a lifetime." The
Sunflowers by David Knape 8-4-12 |
| Columns
| Towns Baytown
is so refined by Wanda Orton 8-3-12
On
April 16, 1919, Humble Oil & Refining Co. engineers arrived in Baytown, armed
with boots and blueprints... Ghost
Town without a Trace by Mike Cox 8-2-12
"By
1884 Texana nee Santa Anna had become a ghost town. Time and periodic river flooding
soon erased virtually every trace of the once flourishing port."
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| Towns
Sagerton
Haskell Co Photos courtesy Kasey Dockens 8-2-12Detroit
Red River Co photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Brian Truncali
8-5-12 | |
| Columns
The
Meusebach-Comanche Treaty by Jeffrey Robenalt 8-1-12
In
early spring of 1847, a remarkable treaty between German settlers and Native Americans
was negotiated on the banks of the San Saba River in the hill country north of
Fredericksburg, Texas. | |
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