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Texas
Escapes Online Magazine
Historic Texas & Travel
March Issue 2005 |
| | Dick
Dowling Statue by
Edward T. Cotham, Jr. 3-1-05
Dick Dowling Statue,
First Public Monument in Houston, Turns 100 Years Old on St. Patrick’s Day |
Preservation
Right
Here by Dwight Young 3-16-05
Keene, Texas
"There's
something incredibly powerful about being able to walk into a building and say,
"This is where it happened, within these walls, right here."
That's what a
landmark does: It tells you, "Right here." |
"They
shoe horses, don't they?"
Opinion
Bentsen-Rio
Grande Valley State Park by Ken Rudine 3-1-05
All
Texans are being deprived of their usual access by the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department empowerment of The World Birding Center.
HISTORY
Archie P. McDonald
Turtle
Bayou Resolutions
3-22-05
"Angry Texans camped near that bayou
in June 1832, trying to figure out how to gain the release of William Barret Travis
and Patrick Jack..."Why
Did They Name It That? 3-9-05
Cut and Shoot,
Texas
Bob Bowman
A
Soldier's Story by Bob Bowman 3-27-05
A classic
story of a simple soldier involved in the momentous events that gave birth to
TexasA
Tragedy's Museum 3-14-05
New London MuseumThe
Air Ace 3-1-05
Lance C. Wade, Royal Air Force
of Britain, World War II
Mike Cox
Battle
of Brushy Creek
A little-known fight between Comanche warriors and Texas Rangers called the
Battle of Brushy Creek.San
Jacinto Monument 3-23-05
"Most people think the towering star-topped limestone monument, built during
the Texas Centennial in 1936, is the only San Jacinto monument. Actually, it’s
only the biggest."Spanish
Cattle 3-21-05
"All those longhorns that revitalized Texas’ post-Civil War economy had
to come from somewhere. And where the breed came from was the interior of Mexico.
Via trail drive."Jesus
3-21-05
When old “Hay-sus” died that winter afternoon,
just about everyone in Eagle Pass mourned.Davy's
Widow 3-9-05KKK
3-1-05
LIFE
IN TEXAS
Delbert Trew
Language
changes a little from generation to generation 3-28-09
Some
believe a different language was spoken in the old days? Maybe so, here are a
few examples used by the Trew clan.War
surplus was godsend to folks at home 3-14-05
"Everyone
wanted a jeep. This heroic vehicle had appeared in every war movie, newsreel and
photo sent home from the war."Quills,
nibs, ink bladders were part of daily life 3-1-05
Louise
George
Work,
Work, Work 3-11-05 | HUMOR
Maggie Van Ostrand
Peeps
Alert 3-17-05Fry
Me to the Moon 3-9-05
Rather than waiting
for a cemetery plot in Mexico, Greece, or the U.S., where real estate is at a
premium whether you're dead or alive, people are finding it more practical to
be cremated like Thompson and are creating interesting things to do with cremated
remains, or "cremains," as they're called in the death biz.
Cher,
Au Contraire 3-1-05
Peary PerryTrade
Deficit 3-23-05
Reforming
social security is one thing, but telling the American public they can’t have
a plasma television made in Japan is entirely different. It’s time the leaders
of this country stood up and investigated the impending crisis before it’s too
late.Numbers
3-16-05
"So,
here we are 50 years later, with more technology than the law will allow and what
happens? We are all swamped by an unbelievable need for our memorization of multiple
numbers just to exist on a daily basis."Greenies
3-9-05
Worry started to gnaw at the corner of
my mind as I stood in a doorway in the alley to avoid the pouring rain. ... My
source is late; he’s never been late before. ... I can’t leave without the package.
My dog will never forgive me if I come home empty handed.... An
adventure to remember 3-2-05
Your assignment,
Mr. Perry, if you choose to accept it, is to travel to Baltimore, then to Washington
D.C. Then onto Indianapolis, pick up a load of baby furniture and drive it back
to Texas.....
Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"Broken
Heart" Syndrome
3-28-05
The first week of February the folks at
the famous Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announced their findings
on stress induced cardiomyopathy, which they have dubbed "Broken Heart" Syndrome.
This is a condition found most frequently in middle aged and older female patients
who have suffered sudden emotional stress. Home
Improvement 3-14-05
"It is the strong
marriage that survives each spring without a tremor or two."Butter
Manners 3-1-05
The women in
our family can be as sweet and mild as milk through all kinds of adversity. But
everyone has their breaking point...
MEMOIR
George Lester
Hamburgers
and Hoot Gibson 3-11-05
N. Ray Maxie
Rambo,
Texas 3-9-05
Long, before the movie "Rambo"
came out, there was a Texas community by that name. Located about two miles south
of McLeod in remote southeastern Cass County, Rambo was an extremely rural community
that began, existed for some years and has now almost died out. It was, for a
long time, a totally Black community. |
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