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Home : New Texas Escapes Magazine October Issue 2004 TEXAS TOWNS Austin's "Guy Town" by Brewster Hudspeth 10-22 Central Texas Towns Photos by John Troesser Knobbs Springs 10-26 Moravia - With a church on the National Register of Historic Places 10-26 Wesley - With a painted church on the National Register of Historic Places 10-21 East Texas Towns Sour Lake - Home of Texaco. Photos by John Troesser 9-28 Tatum 10-27 Hill Country Towns Photos by John Troesser Montopolis 10-20 2 Uvalde County Towns Knippa 10-25 Sabinal 10-25 7 Williamson County Towns, photos by John Troesser: Corn Hill - A ghost town 10-5 Georgetown 10-18 Jarrell 10-6 New Corn Hill 10-6 Schwertner 10-5 Theon 10-6 Walburg 10-5 South Texas Towns Photos by John Troesser Roma 9-27 Panhandle Towns Gorman 10-24 Ivan 10-26 Raywood 9-28 Texline 10-27 Texas Ghost Towns Photos by John Troesser Boonville 10-24 FEATURES & ARCHITECTURE Ghosts & More The House on Nikitski Pereulic by James L. Choron 10-4 A Russian ghost story UFO Story Chariots of Fire 10-20 Architecture Jefferson County Courthouse Text and photos by John Troesser 10-27 The Tyrrell Historical Library - Built in 1903 as the First Baptist Church 10-21 Wellington - The Ritz Theatre 10-18 The Kyle Block in Beaumont - One of the best examples of Zig Zag architecture in Texas 9-27 People Miss Rita of Beaumont's Dixie Hotel by John Troesser 9-26 The Philanthropic Madam of Oil City COLUMNS "They shoe horses, don't they?"- Editorial Reconstituted Yankees with Embalmed Smiles by Luke Warm 10-25 125 year-old Kansas “Tooth Wash” Bottles Reveal Early Advertising Hyperbole Austin's "Guy Town" 1870-1913 10-22 Contemporary Name / Traditional Vice by Brewster Hudspeth The Anatomically Incorrect Cowboy Silhouette by Brewster Hudspeth 10-23 One Bar -Two Dimensions Interview with the Gargoyle by Johnny Stucco 10-18 Behind the grimace beats the heart of a young boy. HISTORY Archie P. McDonald The House That House Built by Archie P. McDonald 10/21 Edward Mandell House of Galveston and Houston rose about as high as one can go in Texas or United States politics, yet he never held an elective or appointive office. Instead of wanting to be "king," House was content to be the "king maker." Governor by Chance - Edward Clark 10-6 Bob Bowman Poisoned Supper 10-25 A tragic, unthinkable incident in the spring of 1847, frequently associated with the Regulator-Moderator War, remains after 157 years one of East Texas’ worst mass murders -- if it was murder. The Four Towns of Onalaska by Bob Bowman 10-15 This year, as Onalaska celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding, townspeople are discovering more about their past... A Railroad Holdup by Bob Bowman 9-28 Railroaders love to tell stories, and the one they relish the most is about the railroad president and the holdup man. Mike Cox Punkin Center 10-27 The Punkin Center Phenomenon, and the old Irish folktale about Jack-O’-Lantern, the enduring symbol of Halloween. Which Road 10-21 Asherton 10-15 Covert Park - Mount Bonnell 10-4 Next time you’re in Austin, be sure to visit Covert Park Murray Montgomery Remembering Leesville 10-1 LIFE IN TEXAS Delbert Trew The hog, the whole hog, nothin' but the hog 10-20 Louise George A Real Character - Mill Boyd as told to Louise George 10-15 Buyer Beware! - Ola Covey as told to Louise George 9-28 Clay Coppedge Ol' Paint's ride started in Bartlett 10-15 Identifying who actually penned the classic trail drive song "Goodbye Old Paint" is about as easy as trying to figure out which horse on which cattle drive inspired the song. One thing we can say with certainty is that the song's journey from trail drive ditty to enduring American classic passed through here. Renaissance Man of Buckholts 9-28 Civilization as we know it did not develop on John Greiner's place northwest of here but it might seem that way when you're touring his place via the Little River Miniature Railroad. HUMOR Maggie Van Ostrand Scents and Sensibility 10-15 "... We can trace the artificial scents of today back to those June brides. Today,about the only thing that smells the same as it always did is the end of the nozzle at a gas pump...." The Pinking of America 9-28 Peary Perry Baseball Moms 10-27 Tidal Wave of Crime 10-21 Extending Expiration Dates 10-15 Gender Differences, Directions and Dishwashers 10-6 Caveat Emptor 10-3 Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal Halloween - Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties 10-18 New Shoes 10-16 "... You were not defined by your Easter shoes the way you were by your school shoes...." Hit Me With Your Best Shot 10-6 And forty-two is a bad, bad age. Nobody ever says, "Give her a break, she's only forty-two" or "What do you expect, she's only forty-two." or "Well, you know she only just turned forty-two." MEMOIR George Lester The "Killer" Cows 10-27 The Poltergeist 10-15 The Victory Lease 9-28 Guest Columns The Last Word on "Marfa" by Lee Lowry 10-6 The naming of Marfa Purple Martins by Judith D. Mitchell 10-16 Texas Escapes Online Magazine Back Issues Subscribe to our Newsletter

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