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Texas
Escapes Online Magazine
Historic Texas & Travel
February Issue 2005 |
A
Roadside Park Mystery
2-3-05
How permanent is a donated park?
In Memory of Alfonso Steele, Last
Survivor of Battle of San Jacinto
Texas
Personality
Etta
Moten Barnett by John Troesser 2-1-05
November 5th, 1901 - January
- 2004
"Life does not owe me one thing."
"While her birth in
Weimar, Texas may have just been chance, it's her accomplishments after she left
Weimar that deserve a closer look. When she died last year of cancer (in Chicago)
at the age of 102, Etta Moten Barnett had had a rich and full life.. She is now
remembered as an actress, singer, and philanthropist ..."
Preservation
Perfect
Worlds by Dwight Young 2-1-05
Donna Reed and the Granada Theater in
Plainview, Texas
"... I distinctly remember more than one afternoon
when I thought, sitting there in the plushly upholstered splendor of the Granada,
“I wish the whole world was like this.” A decade later, Donna Reed brought that
sentiment into our living rooms..." |
| | Photos
courtesy Jim & Lou Kinsey
Postcards rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html
San
Saba
February Feature Town
Travel, history,
river, parks, famous trees, courthouse, suspension bridge, images ... 2-2-05 |
"They
shoe horses, don't they?"
Running
of the Sheep
by Audrey A. Herbrich
2-16-05
On the last Saturday in September, San Angeloans showcase their idea
of “fun” by releasing a herd of sheep in the downtown streets.Mary,
Mary, Once of Perry
by Toney Urban 1-25-05
HISTORY
Archie P. McDonald
The
Arthur Temple School of Forestry 2-22-05Bet-A-Million
Gates 2-16-05
John Warne Gates, a native of Winfield, Illinois, became
associated with three of Texas’ most important items: barbed wire, railroads,
and oil.Linda
Darnell 1-16-05
Bob Bowman
Outlaw
with two faces 2-16-05
...
To those who knew Wright, his appearance and demeanor were far removed from the
days when he was a prominent newspaper editor, attorney, and aspiring legislator
in Little Rock. But they would soon learn that he was also an escaped murderer,
forger, arsonist and jail breaker named Pete Loggins from East Texas.A
Unique Landmark 2-1-05
A granite shaft set into the ground on April 23,
1841, marks the only international boundary existing within the continental United
States.
Mike Cox
Mission
Rules 2-22-05
Around 1760, a now-unknown Franciscan priest at the Apostolic
College for Missionaries in Queretaro, Mexico set down rules for Texas missionaries.
The rules, laden with advice, were “meant for a missionary who has never been
in charge of a mission and is all alone and does not know whom to consult for
advice.” August
Carl Weiss 2-16-05
During the Civil War not every Southern soldier served
in the Confederate army because he believed in slavery or hated Yankees. Some
shouldered arms only because they had to. That was the case with August Carl Weiss...
Chili
1-31-05
Murray Montgomery
Macario
García, Veteran of D-Day 2-16-05
LIFE
IN TEXAS
Delbert Trew
All
types of things happened when making butter 2-1-05
Clay Coppedge
Metheglin
Creek 2-22-05
Metheglin,
the brew, has fared well in the intervening years. From being the drink-of-choice
for intemperate settlers, it's now bottled and rhapsodized over like fine wine.
Spicing appears to be the key to quality metheglin.
Louise George
Hard
Times 1-21-05 | HUMOR
Maggie Van Ostrand
Mexican
Beauty: Dolores del Rio 2-16-05
"Sinuous and sensual, she was widely
regarded as the female Rudolph Valentino. ... Precious few other actresses have
retained both beauty and stardom for over fifty professional years."Well
done, Johnny 1-25-05
"Ernie Kovacs once said that television was
a medium because it was so rarely well done. When Johnny was on, it was well done."
Peary Perry
"Peary
Perry’s Guide to Riches and Miracle Diet Plan" 2-22-05Going
the Distance 2-16-05
Moral
Decay 2-16-05
Physical violence…with foodWhere
are you Benny Goodenberger? 2-2-05
Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
Big
Business 2-16-05
Sara
Lee owns Hanes.Tow
Trucks and Snugglers and Snuff, Oh My! 2-1-05
Running
home to Oklahoma City to Mama and Papa, with a car full of babies and roadmaps
and stuffed animals and regrets and hopes and ‘Nilla Wafers...
MEMOIR
George Lester
Oh
Say Can You See 2-1-05
N. Ray MaxieThe
Ark-La-Tex and Bogus Springs, Texas 2-1-05
The
Ark-La-Tex includes Three Corners, the place where three state lines meet, and
portions of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Many ... have done the "spread eagle"
there, especially area high school kids. Reportedly there are hordes of people
that have traveled many miles to do just that. |
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