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El
Campo Post Office Mural "Rural Texas Gulf Coast" by
Milford Zornes, 1939
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English
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Play
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TE's 2700th Town 9-26-11
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6-21-10
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7-5-16
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12-11-14
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7-7-10
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7-27-09
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11-2-10
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City 1-19-19
Linden
Post Office Mural 7-24-10
Loma
Alta 8-11-12
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Star Morris Co 11-1-17
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Star Red River Co 11-1-17
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Branch 6-23-10
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10-29-10
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5-25-12
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8-14-10
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1-29-18
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6-1-10
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6-1-10
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7-31-10
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7-7-10
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10-5-10
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Post Office Mural 11-24-09
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8-8-12
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10-19-12
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7-4-18
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7-20-11
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5-18-12
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9-12-12
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4-30-11
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City 7-1-18
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3-30-11
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8-6-12
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8-6-10
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7-7-10
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9-14-16
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10-22-10
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Ulm 3-1-18
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8-9-10
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6-3-10
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2-4-18
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6-8-17
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5-26-12
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7-12-10
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- The John H. Reagan Memorial 7-2-10
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3-17-10
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7-24-20
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6-7-10
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6-8-10
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1-27-15
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4-22-17
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7-15-11
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Ridge 10-5-12
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6-1-09
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1-1-13
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Alto 6-8-17
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Lavaca 8-22-13
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8-2-17
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6-4-12
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9-5-12
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City 6-27-10
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10-24-18
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6-16-12
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8-24-10
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5-2-12
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11-1-10
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Bank 7-7-10
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8-21-10
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Rhineland
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Roby
Rosalie
7-1-17
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5-7-11
Rusk's
Post Office Mural - "Agriculture and Industry" by California
Artist Bernard Zacheim, 1939 3-6-09
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Flat 1-17-10
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Hill 3-14-12
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Cruz 4-20-11
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7-20-10
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1-11-18
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5-24-12
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8-22-12
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9-22-10
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6-16-17
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5-2-10
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2-23-20
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Shoals 8-17-12
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2-13-10
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1-6-18
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6-8-10
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6-28-10
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6-17-12
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3-5-12
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1-1-19
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4-22-17
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4-1-11
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8-4-18
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5-2-12
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7-3-10
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9-7-10
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7-9-10
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11-5-10
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8-10-11
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1-1-10
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1-12-20
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City 7-7-10
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9-12-10
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Village 8-21-10
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4-3-15
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9-2-13
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1-9-20
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8-26-13
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7-27-10
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New Hope 4-22-17
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7-12-10
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Oak 7-23-12
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Rock Red River County 8-19-10
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Rock San Augustine County 12-31-17
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Penn 2-5-17
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Springs 4-29-16
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7-2-16
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4-18-20
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6-7-10
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9-23-13
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11-9-18
Special Subjects
Shackleford
County Wind Farms
8-1-10
Texas
Territorial Compromise of 1850
12-22-09
Last
Remaining International Boundary for The Republic of Texas
2-21-09
Lousiana
Shreveport's
Victorian Era Architecture
Begins January 2009
|
Gerald Massey
A self-described
Southern Gentleman, Gerald Massey was born in Shreveport, Louisiana
in 1936. He grew up on a farm near Blanchard, Louisiana, eight miles
northwest of Shreveport.
In December of 1954 he began 17 years of employment with United Gas,
a Shreveport based company involved in natural gas production, transmission
and distribution throughout the gulf coast states. Gerald worked as
mail clerk, storeroom clerk, survey crew worker, pipe line construction
inspector, and construction warehouse manager. In these various roles
he traveled and worked in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and
“a lot in Louisiana.” In his duties he surveyed marshes, river bottoms,
and swamps. Two large milestones in his career were laying a pipeline
27 miles across Lake Pontchartrain and another was the construction
of a pipeline through the marshes, bays, and bayous from south of
Houma to Empire, Louisiana.
Gerald may be unique among his fellow Louisianans for his vast, hard-earned
knowledge of Louisiana and her waters did not involve fishing
or boating. He served in the US Army Military Police at Ft. Knox,
Kentucky from 1959-1961.
In 2000 he completed 26 years with Kansas City Southern Railroad.
His duties ranged from track-laborer and section foreman to groundkeeper.
In 1992 he purchased a "jet ski" which led to the writing of his book:
“The Louisiana Boat Launch Directory.” After finding that there
was no such information available from either the public library or
the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Gerald set out to
examine and document each of over 900 boat launches, taking three
years to compile the information for his book.
His recreational use of his “jet ski” covered nine years from age
56 to 65, a time when most people are winding down. In the course
of his travels he made the self-discovery of being an adventurer and
explorer. After logging several thousands of miles across his home
state, he has met and talked to hundreds of people, many of whom have
become friends. He has stated, "Even though I've lived and traveled
Louisiana for 50 years (more or less) I never realized there was so
much greatness and that I had been missing so much. For the life
of me I can't see why Louisianans need to go somewhere else if they
haven’t first seen their own state. Border to border – and North of
I-10 !"
Gerald is also an avid photographer with subjects ranging from murals
to architectural subjects. His photography extends back to his railroading
days and it was his focus on rural churches which led him to Texas
Escapes via Barclay
Gibson’s photography.
Mr. Massey has been invited to share his work with our readers. |
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