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Texas
Escapes Online Magazine
Historic Texas & Travel
May Issue 2005 |
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Tee Pee(s) on the Prairie by Johnny Stucco 5-12-05
Photos
courtesty Ken Rudine & Blue Dolphin Investments LP
"This is the
biggest news in Wharton County in years. It's bigger than the night they burned
the wooden sidewalks on the square and certainly bigger than the night they cut
down the sycamore trees on the courthouse lawn. It might even be considered a
tie with the time Sheriff Buckshot Lane burned the state highway bridge."
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| Postcard
courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb// postcards/Index.html Corpus
Christi 5-1-05 |
| Photos
courtesy cottonwoodtexas.com Cottonwood
5-15-05 Iredell
texasoldphotos.com 5-16-05 |
| Ghost Towns Photos
courtesy Erik Whetstone : |
| Midday
at the Oasis by
Johnny Stucco 5-1-05
Photos by Erik Whetstone
"Having never pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline, this
station-that-never-was has become our symbol for a particular period in Texas
history." |
| Texas
Old Photos
Roy
Orbison Photo courtesy David Coffield 5-16-05 |
| They
Shoe Horses, Don't They? |
HISTORICAL
Archie P. McDonald
The
Tidelands 5-26-05
"Ownership
of the “tidelands,” or territory between the shoreline and “three leagues Gulf
ward” in Texas, or approximately 10.35 miles, became the most contested state-federal
issue of the twentieth century. In the balance was 2,440,650 submerged acres.
Here is the story as told by Price Daniel himself..." Rabbi
Cohen 5-8-05
Rabbi Henry Cohen provided a
place for thousands of Jewish immigrants routed through the port of Galveston.
Bob
Bowman
The
Neches River 5-15-05
"...
Sometimes called East Texas’ last wild river, the Neches has been flowing though
eastern Texas longer than any of the remnants of mankind, even the earliest Indians..."The
Lady in Blue 5-1-05
For longer than anyone
can remember, the story of “the lady in blue” has existed on the fringes of East
Texas history and religion.
Mike Cox
Stagecoach
Holdup 5-26-05
"Stagecoach
robberies happened so often along the Texas frontier it came to be considered
something of a right of passage to hand over one’s money and valuables to a masked
man with a gun on some lonely roadside."Whiskey
Funeral 5-19-05
"...
He won his nickname when he got so desperate for a drink that he traded his horse
and saddle for a gallon of whiskey..."
Bold
CSA Vet 5-14-05
"Thomas
Evans Riddle bet on a dead racehorse. He lost.
The horse was Man o’ War..."
Wells
Branch 5-8-05
"Today, as the rustic center
piece of Katherine Fleischer Park, the cabin sits in the middle of some 8,000
residences occupied by 20,000 people."Freer
5-1-05
In rhyme, Wilson tried to distill life
in and around the Duval County town of Freer, the state’s last truly wild and
wooly oil boom town.
Murray MontgomeryRichard
Gaertner's Story 5-14-05
Every town needs
a storyteller and Moulton is fortunate to have a mighty good one in a feisty fellow
named Richard Gaertner.Thomas
Lenz 5-2-05
"...
All three of the high-school pals saw action in Vietnam – two survived and one,
Tommy Lenz, would die a month after his 21st birthday and just a week before he
was due to come home..."
REGIONAL
Delbert TrewBoys
will be boys - and also troublemakers 5-14-05
Ever
do something you hoped your parents never found out about? Since both my parents
are deceased, I offer the following incidents from my early life. Domino,
pool parlors were pre-TV entertainment 5-1-05
Clay
CoppedgeThe
Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton 5-26-05
"Despite
Johnny Horton's wild-at-heart looks and voice, he was a man haunted for years
by ominous premonitions of his own death. He often promised those close to him
he would contact them from beyond the grave."Killer
Vultures 5-10-05
"Bell County
trapper Gary Silvers has been answering calls about calves killed by vultures
for the better part of a decade. Count him among those who are no longer amused
by or even skeptical about the idea of killer vultures."
Louise
George
More
Work 5-14-05
"Back then, it was dry land farming. We didn’t make very much. We raised
wheat, mostly, and maize...."
N. Ray Maxie
"Mules"
Snaking Logs in East Texas 5-14-05
"Snaking
logs" is hard work, for both man and animal. In the early days of clearing "new
ground" and harvesting timber in the Ark-La-Tex area, the term "snaking logs"
described the job of pulling pre-cut logs out of huge forested areas using mule-power.Attention
All Officers, All Stations: WANTED FOR MURDER.........." 5-1-05
| HUMOR
& OPINION
Maggie Van Ostrand
Barbara
Walters Does Cleopatra 5-15-05
The venerable
Barbara Walters has consented to conduct her first post-semi-retirement interview
at the personal request of Cleopatra. "Diane Sawyer wanted me," said the elusive
Egyptian Queen, "but without Mike Nichols directing, she's nothing."
Following
is a documented transcript of the Walters-Cleopatra taped interview as surreptitiously
obtained by an imbedded reporter....Mexican-American
War of Ought-Five 5-3-05
"...
A group of Mexican citizens calling themselves Los Hombres al Minuto has
volunteered to make their sole quest in life the prevention of North Americans
illegally crossing the border into Mexico.... It should be noted that volunteers
are not permitted to carry any weapons except guns and machetes..."
Peary
Perry
Get
a Life 5-26-05
"... [S]ome people have
too much to worry about, and some folks worry about things that don’t matter at
all."This
Week 5-16-05
"Each week, I try to come
up with something that I feel might be of interest to you and then slant my viewpoint
in a humorous or satirical manner. Since I’ve been doing this for over 20 years,
there have only been a few periods in which I’m unable to put a funny spin on
some topic or another. This is one of those periods..."A
Nation of Fools 5-10-05
" There just
seems to be so much to write about that defies sanity in the world we are now
living. I’m wondering if this is normal or is a function of getting older? It’s
hard to decide."The
Missed Wife 5-2-05
"... I recently told
you we had a new granddaughter. Now, for this reason my wife has left me for a
week to go over and help with the new baby. As a result my life has been turned
upside down in her absence..."
Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal
Paaaar-Teeee!
5-14-05
Boy Sleep Overs, or The End of Civilization
As We Know It.
Love
You, Ociffer! 5-1-05
"If I were the
Boss of Everything, which I have sometimes been accused of thinking that I am,
there would be a very special award for people who work the night shift..."
John
Gosselink
A
Touchy Subject 5-15-05
My aversion to hugging
has been well documented, if not somewhat misinterpreted. While it is true that
in 1982, I misunderstood Nancy Reagan’s public service commercial and spent the
entire decade just saying no to hugsDirections
for Proper Use 5-1-05
"Congratulations
on your purchase of “Stumbling Forward,” version 1.02. As our valued customer,
we have included this instruction manual to insure that your SF experience is
safe and rewarding."
MEMOIR
George
Lester
The
Irony of It All 5-14-05
Summer enterprises:
soda pop bottles and scrap iron.Cyclone
5-1-05 |
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