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AUGUST 2008 Issue
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Cuero DeWitt Co 8-1-08
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Yorktown DeWitt Co 8-1-08
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels
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  • Shiner Lavaca Co 8-26-08
  • Van Horn Culberson Co 8-30-08
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  • Putnam Callahan Co 8-25-08
  • Joshua Johnson Co 8-19-08
    		•  Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson:
  • Stewards Mill Freestone Co 8-1-08
  • Ravenna Fannin Co 8-10-08
  • Thorndale Milam Co 8-5-08
  • Tivoli Refugio Co 8-9-08
  • Trent Taylor Co 8-17-08
  • Turnertown Rusk Co 8-17-08
    		•  Photos Courtesy Ken Rudine:
  • Carancahua Jackson Co 8-6-08
  • Wadsworth Matagorda Co 8-1-08
  • Magnet Wharton Co 8-1-08
  • Lane City Wharton Co 8-1-08
    		•  Photos courtesy Mike Price:
  • Prosper Collin 8-16-08
  • Pottsboro Grayson Co 8-20-08
  • Fink Grayson Co 8-20-08
  • Ector Fannin Co 8-10-08
  • Era Cooke Co 8-10-08
  • Tye Taylor Co 8-13-08
    • TE Photos:
  • Monaville Waller Co 8-14-08
  • Willamar Willacy Co 8-4-08

    Photos courtesy Ernie Wymer:
  • Harkeyville San Saba Co 8-14-08

    Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson:
  • Spearman Hansford Co 8-1-08
  • Waka Ochiltree Co 8-15-08

  • Stith Jones Co 8-5-08 No Photos

    • TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Browse 475 Ghost Towns >

  • La Casa Stephens Co Photos Courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-1-08

    • TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

    		GHOSTS
  • La Llorona: Does She Seek Your Children? by Maggie Van Ostrand 8-10-08
    Many versions of the tragedy of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise is the same...
  • The Many Legends of La Llorona by C. F. Eckhardt 8-12-08
    "I've been digging into La Llorona for nearly forty years. This article pretty much sums up what I've found."
  • La Llorona by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 8-31-08
    I grew up in Las Cruces, NM which is near the Rio Grande. I often head stories about people who had seen and heard La Llorona...
    		• TEXAS STATE PARKS
  • Lockhart State Park 8-14-08
    Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

    FOOD
  • Peaches by Mike Cox 8-21-08
    Most peach trees seldom make it past their first decade of existence. That’s what made the peach tree outside the old stone structure in Burnet at the site of Fort Croghan so unusual...
    		• TEXAS CENTENNIAL
    By Sarah Reveley:
  • Corpus Christi Memorial Museum 8-13-08
  • Big Bend Historical Museum, Alpine 8-8-08
    Photos courtesy Beth Nobles & Sarah Reveley
  • El Paso Memorial Museum 8-8-08
    Photos courtesy Russell Johnson & Sarah Reveley
  • State of Texas Building, Dallas 8-1-08
    Photos courtesy Matt Pasant & Sarah Reveley
  • Will Rogers Memorial Center - Fort Worth 8-1-08
    Photos courtesy David Kozlowski     & Sarah Reveley
    • TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES > Over 12,000 Images
    COURTHOUSES Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson
  • Hansford County Courthouse 8-2-08
  • Garza County Courthouse 8-20-08
  • Guadalupe County Courthouse 8-25-08
  • Culberson County Courthouse 8-29-08
  • Ochiltree County Courthouse 8-23-08
    • CHURCHES
  • Churches Have Been Doing Their Best to Mask Financial Troubles by Bill Cherry 8-3-08
    Many find it troubling to drive by their city's old churches, some ornate and opulent, others designed and built to be clean, pristine and sturdy, and to realize that for years those buildings have been decaying... Many have been on their corners for more than 100 years...
    • COLUMNS
    		PHOTO COLUMN
    WHERE'S STEPHEN?
    America Coast to Coast, Day by Day
    Travelog of a a cross-country, big-rig trucker
    TEXAS HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS
    Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
  • Gussie Nell Davis and the Kilgore Rangerettes 8-25-08
  • The East Texas Historical Association 8-11-08
    • Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
  • Chautauqua 8-18-08
  • The Mystery of Caddo Mounds 8-4-08
    • Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Syndicated in 5 newspapers
  • One saloon for every editor in old Hallettsville 8-29-08
  • All Veterans Should Be Honored 8-8-08
    • W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"
    C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas "
  • The Many Legends of La Llorona 8-12-08
  • The Eckhart Name in Yorktown and Elsewhere 8-1-08
    • Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated in 11 newspapers
  • Hardin's Shotgun 8-27-08
  • Peaches 8-21-08
  • Million Barrel Hole 8-14-08
  • Trivia 8-7-08
    • Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Amarillo Globe News
  • Moreno Valley great spot for a vacation 8-26-08
  • Stetson led way for modern cowboy hats 8-19-08
  • XIT was on cutting edge of ranching 8-12-08
  • There were rules in good-old days, too 8-5-08
  • The Eckhart Name in Yorktown and Elsewhere 8-1-08
    • Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas"
  • Gideon Lincecum: King of Texas’ Wild Frontier 8-24-08
  • Little One-Hearted Stock Tank 8-12-08
    • Bill Cherry "Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories"
  • Churches Have Been Doing Their Best to Mask Financial Troubles 8-3-08
    • Linda-Kirkpatrick "Somewhere in the West"
  • Johanna Domodora of South Texas 8-18-08
    • HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS
    Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist
  • La Llorona: Does She Seek Your Children? 8-10-08
    • Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated in 80 newspapers
  • Looking for Higgs boson 8-27-08
  • Mailing Lists 8-20-08
  • Medicare Fraud 8-13-08
  • Are You Ready for the Country? 8-6-08
    • Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"
    Gael Montana "The View from Under the Bus"
    MUSIC COLUMNS
    Dorothy Hamm "Words and Music" Columns
  • Music Hath Charms 8-30-08
    Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak, so said William Congreve several centuries ago...
    • TEXAS MEMOIRS
    N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex
  • A Serious View of Important Things 8-1-08
    • TEXAS CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS
    Roger T. Moore
  • 8-5-08 | 8-12-08 | 8-19-08 | 8-26-08
    • Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?"
     
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