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Texas Travel Texas
History
October
2006 Issue
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| | TEXAS
RAILROADS
Tracks
by Billy B. Smith
10-1-06
"I have always loved railroads,
both the trains and tracks... One railroad line in particular has been for me
an umbilical cord that has connected me to my roots and my life. I have lived
close to this line for most of my life. It always reminds me of where I've been
and where I could have gone."
Photos courtesy Justin Parson |
| | Jacksonville,
Texas
Love's
Look Out 10-24-06
Photo courtesy C. DeWaun Simmons
Spur
Photos courtesy Bob Worley
10-18-06 | |
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| | Soash
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-14-06
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Halloween Parade Float
c. 1910, Columbus, Texas
Photo courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library |
GHOSTS
& SUPERSTITIONS Stampede
Mesa
by C. F. Eckhardt
" Stampede Mesa was-and may still be-one
of the most thoroughly haunted places in Texas."Flight
from ghosts helps stomp some berry juice by W. T. Block Jr. 10-16-06
"As children, Broomtail and I had grown up, listening to our sisters tales
on Halloween nights, about the ghosts that wandered around the cemetery. And to
augment their stories, a river man named Old Rob, who worked on our farm, had
bottomless pits full of ghost stories of his own..."Flowers
For Sarah Herndon by Clay Coppedge 10-11-06
There's
no such place as Donahoe anymore. There is Donahoe Road and Donahoe Creek, but
the rest of the once thriving community has been relegated to memory, legend and...
Haunted
Hill by Clay Coppedge 10-5-06
"Joyce
Woods Cox, a local historian based in Moody, was told when she was a child that
at night you could hear the rattling of chains."
The Undead by Maggie Van Ostrand
10-10-06
Not only is Halloween right around
the October corner, but this week has a Friday the 13th in it. If that's not enough
to get your hackles raised, it's time to reconsider the Bridey Murphy Syndrome.
Friday
the 13th by Maggie Van Ostrand 10-4-06
"...Is the fear of Friday the 13th based on the fear of the number thirteen
itself?... Who were the three scariest guys to be born on Friday the 13th?..."
Some
old-time superstitions prevail by Delbert Trew 10-3-06
When I began asking friends about this subject I learned many early-day
superstitions are alive and well today. |
| W.
T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's
Tales"
Some
Notes on the Civil War Jayhawkers of Confederate Louisiana 10-3-06
"Very quickly thereafter, the Civil War became known as "a rich mans
war and a poor mans fight." While the Confederate government championed the cause
of States Rights, many poor Southerners soon viewed it as a war to preserve the
institution of slavery, and hence the way of life of the wealthy planter class
that slavery permitted to flourish. It is believed that only one out of each twenty
Confederate soldiers actually owned slaves..." |
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