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Texas
Escapes Magazine
Texas & Travel
January Issue 2005 |
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Well
done, Johnny by Maggie Van Ostrand 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." |
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Vattmann,
Texas 1-29-05
Photos circa 1910 courtesy Gerald R. Walker Austin, Texas |
Three
Texas Hill Country Towns 1-29-05Fredonia
Photo courtesy of Co Wisdom, Brady, Texas
VocaBrady
Postcards rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html
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 | Three
Texas Panhandle Towns 1-27-05Flomot,
Motley County
Photo and story courtesy Joe Garrett |
McAdoo,
Dickens County
Photos and story courtesy Neal Crausbay
Draw,
Lynn County
An Informal History of Draw, Texas by Nolan Porterfield
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| | Rust
in Pieces Texas’ Largest Outdoor Museum 1-19-05
For
those who find beauty in unusual places, or those who remember amber-winged fairy
hood ornaments and pin-up girls encased in plastic steering wheel knobs, here’s
our ode to bullet-ridden sheet metal. We casually present: Rust in Pieces. |
Sagging
Symbols by Dwight Young 1-12-05
"In the midst of the vast, windswept West Texas landscape, the courthouse
was the architectural paperweight that kept the town from blowing away. ... [It]
offered tangible evidence that our town was here to stay and that the residents
were a civilized lot who knew what a public building ought to look like." |
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Schoolhouses
Stephen & Elizabeth Taylor, TE Schoolhouse Editors |
 | Chili
by Mike Cox 1-31-05 |
"They
shoe horses, don't they?"
Mary,
Mary, Once of Perry
by Toney Urban 1-25-05
Unbelievable, but
true stories connected to Perry, Texas (Falls County)
"In the late 40s
and early 50s, there was a Black lady named Mary (last name unknown), that would
arrive out in the countryside near Perry, Texas and dispense some incredibly amazing
medicine and conversation....."An
Extremely Informal* History of Penitas 1-9-05
*Written as an entertainment and not recommended for school reports
by Brewster Hudspeth
HISTORY
Archie P. McDonald
Linda
Darnell 1-16-05
The brief but brilliant life
of actress Linda Darnell began in Dallas on October 16, 1923...LBJ
and East Texas Politics 1-5-05
Bob
Bowman
Carnegie
Libraries 1-25-05The
Colonel’s Home 1-12-05
Myrtle-Vale, one of
the most magnificent pre-Civil War homes still standing in East Texas.Nazis
in East Texas 1-1-05
POW camps in East Texas
Mike Cox
Kaiser
Cows - Bovine Saboteurs of WWI
1-25-05
Jake,
the Bridge Ghost of Williamson County 1-17-05Tejano
Hero Norberto Sierra
1-5-05Austin
Grade School
1-1-05
LIFE
IN TEXAS
Delbert
Trew
Dogs
figure in life's fondest memories 1-16-05Planning
for weather is trying proposition 1-1-05
Clay Coppedge
Name
of This Town Rings A Bell - Ding Dong, Texas
1-16-05Legends
of the Pancake Mine 1-1-05
Louise
George
Hard
Times 1-21-05 | HUMOR
Maggie Van Ostrand
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."Harvard
Strangles First Amendment 1-25-05
... and what women really want Ninotchka
1-21-05
She was a blue-eyed creature of enormous
beauty, so beautiful that she was named after a Greta Garbo film heroine. You'd
be proud to take her anywhere, as she was always perfectly attired. She was a
magnificent Siberian Husky. New
Year's Resolutions
1-1-05
Peary Perry
Reading
vs Television 1-25-05Pet
Peeves: Coffee, Stereos and Thermostat
1-25-05Inaugural
Packages 1-16-05 Professor
Perry on Time
1-1-05
Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
A
Home of My Own 1-16-05New
Year’s Resolutions
1-1-05
MEMOIR
George Lester
Hunger
Pains
1-16-05The
Cyclist 1-1-05
N. Ray MaxieThe
Day Kennedy was Shot
1-16-05
My
Night at Bessy and Bud's House
1-1-05 |
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