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Home : New Texas Escapes Online Magazine Historic Texas & Travel November 2005 Issue TEXAS TOWNS > Search Texas Towns 1296 Historic Denton, Texas by Sam Fenstermacher : Denton County Courthouse 11-1-05 Silk Stocking Row 11-1-05 Bayless-Selby House Museum 11-1-05 Hearne 11-2-05 Camp Hearne - POW Camp 11-2-05 Photos by John Troesser Rockport 11-20-05 Photos courtesy Ken Rudine Twin Sisters 11-16-05 | Eldorado 11-17-05 Lindsay 11-12-05 | Rhineland | Scranton 11-16-05 Weesatche | Weimar 11-20-05 | Muenster 11-25-05 Claude | Farwell | Panhandle | Carlton | 11-27-05 Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Art | Katemcy 11-17-05 Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Erik Whetstone Loyal Valley 11-19-05 Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone Lovelady Photos courtesy Loren V. Stagner 11-6-05 Lovelace | Loveless 11-6-05 | La Blanca | Lasara 11-9-05 Funston 11-20-05 | McCaulley 11-22-05 Photos courtesy Bob Worley Driftwood 11-4-05 | Coolidge 11-22-05 Photos by John Troesser Electra 11-17-05 | El Sauz | Lela | 11-21-05 | Burleson | Camden 11-28-05 | Pawelekville 11-29-05 More new TEXAS GHOST TOWNS > Search Ghost Towns 294 Nix Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 11-14-05 Fly Gap Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone 11-17-05 Vigo Park 11-18-05 Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone & Suzan Caudle Mackay & Marie Hough Borden 11-12-05 More vintage photos courtesy Ruben R. Hernandez Calf Creek | Camp Verde | Calliham Photos by John Troesser Wastella 11-13-05 | Eliza 11-19-05 More new FEATURES | TRIPS People Hallettsville Photographer Left a Legacy of Memories by Murray Montgomery 11-18-05 Henry Jacob Braunig Trips Prada Marfa by Luke Warm 11-1-05 Photos courtesy Lizette Kapre, Ballroom Marfa, and the Art Production Fund West Texas gets a Long-Overdue Infusion of Whimsy by German-based Artists History / Trip The Killough Massacre, October 5, 1838 11-8-05 Text & 7 photos by Janet Gregg A History of Mexico in 2000 Words 11-7-05 by Maggie Van Ostrand More new ARCHITECTURE | IMAGES > Over 9000 Images Denton County Courthouse 11-1-05 Text & Photos courtesy Sam Fenstermacher Caldwell County Courthouse 11-3-05 Photos by John Troesser & courtesy TXDoT & THC Remembering Caldwell County Courthouse 11-3-05 Caldwell County Judge Scott Including 6 courthouse interior photos The Gus Cranz Mansion, Schulenburg, Texas 11-13-05 by John Troesser. Photos courtesy Roy Saffel & the Cranz Family Amarillo, Texas Depots by Mike Cox 11-3-05 Photos courtesy texasoldphotos.com "Amarillo is the largest city in Texas owing its existence solely to the railroad." Lindsay - Saint Peter's Catholic Church 11-12-05 A painted church Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson San Jacinto School 11-18-05 Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone & Suzan Caudle Mary Allen College, Crockett 11-11-05 Photos courtesy George Lester Grand Opera House, Amarillo 11-3-05 Postcards courtesy rootsweb.com/%7Etxpstcrd/ Nueces Hotel Photos courtesy Cruse Aviation 11-3-05 More new USA TRAVEL Cutler-Donahoe Covered Bridge, Madison County 11-5-05 Photos courtesy Ken Rudine The Courthouse of Madison County, Winterset, Iowa 11-5-05 Clark Tower, Winterset, Iowa 11-5-05 Photos courtesy of Ken Rudine, Wayne Davis and the Madison County Iowa Chamber of Commerce More new COLUMNS EDITOR & GUESTS "THEY SHOE HORSES, DON'T THEY?" Guest Columns Coolidge, Texas by Archibald Flint Watkins 11-22-05 An excerpt from the unpublished manuscript of Archibald Flint Watkins, written in 1956, two years before his death. - Submitted by Wanda Watkins I Remember a Faded Love by Ken Rudine 11-22-05 HISTORICAL "All Things Historical" ARCHIE P. McDONALD Dana X. Bible and the Twelfth Man 11-20-05 A story about the life and contributions to Texas football by Dana Xenophon Bible A.M.Aikin, Jr. 11-7-05 "In these days of evaluating our schools—exemplary to acceptable to whatever—and multiple special legislative sessions devoted to figuring out how to spend more money on schools while taking in less revenue, Texans might want to remember A.M. Aikin Jr., who helped drag education and Texas into modern times." BOB BOWMAN The Quebe Sisters 11-27-05 "Listening to the Quebe Sisters play the western swing music pioneered by Wills in the 1930s and l940s, you realize they are special musicians who love what they’re doing." The Bell Tower 11-15-05 The bell will soon ring again across Mount Pleasant’s courthouse square. "Texas Tales" MIKE COX Crockett News 11-17-05 "Oscar Dalton must have felt as proud as a new papa when he pulled that first copy of The Crockett Printer off his press..." Last Cavalry Horse 11-17-05 "That cold winter morning, Dec.14, 1932, was a sad one for old-time horse soldiers and civilians alike at Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa -- they both realized they were witnessing the end of an era." Amarillo Symphony 11-3-05 "The whistle was music to the railroad man’s ears...” "Lone Star Diary" MURRAY MONTGOMERY Hallettsville Photographer Left a Legacy of Memories 11-18-05 Henry Jacob Braunig REGIONAL "It's All Trew" DELBERT TREW Encounters of the outhouse kind make great family reunion tales 9-17-05 "Letters From Central Texas" CLAY COPPEDGE Horny Toad Hypnosis 11-17-05 John Trlica 11-1-05 "Every picture tells a story only as long as people know the story..." "History by George" LOUISE GEORGE School Days 10-18-05 HUMOR & OPINION "A Balloon In Cactus" MAGGIE VAN OSTRAND Thanksgiving and the Little Table 11-23-05 The Mallomar 11-10-05 A History of Mexico in 2000 Words 11-7-05 "Letters From North America" PEARY PERRY Turkeys Gone Wild 11-30-05 Thanksgiving 11-23-05 Telephone Tax and Powdered Milk 11-18-05 "Although I am not old enough to be enrolled in Medicare, it occurs to me after watching the news and reading the papers that we have just managed to create another governmental bureaucratic snowball." Progress 11-9-05 "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything" ELIZABETH BUSSEY SOWDAL How Do I Love Thee? 11-15-05 I Hate My Boss 11-2-05 "Stumbling Forward" John Gosselink Thanksgiving Freakout 11-26-05 " Words and Music" Dorothy Hamm Days of Whine, Bear Grass, Nettles and Burrs 11-8-05 "...This area was a bit less tranquil in the late 1940s when my family, four children and two adults, settled into a sandy land farm near the Willow Springs community and began an association with the flora and fauna of the area..." CARTOONS BOOKS "Moore Texas" ROGER T. MOORE 11-28-05 11-22-05 11-15-05 11-8-05 BOOK REVIEWS MEMOIR "Spunky Flat and Beyond" GEORGE LESTER Mister Keen 11-15-05 Life on the Lorena farm Escape from Peril 11-1-05 "Rambling Ray" N. RAY MAXIE Roughnecks and Rednecks 11-15-05 Life in the oil-field The Left Handed Twist-tie 11-1-05 More new columns Texas Escapes Online Magazine October 2005 Issue & All Issues Contributors | Staff | What readers say about us | Subscribe to our Newsletter Search: All Products Apparel & Accessories Baby Beauty Books DVD Electronics Home & Garden Gourmet Food Health & Personal Care Jewelry & Watches Kitchen & Housewares Magazine Subscriptions Musical Instruments Music Computers Camera & Photo Software Sports & Outdoors Tools & Hardware Toys & Games VHS Computer & Video Games Cell Phones & Service Keywords:

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