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September
2012 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
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| Towns
& Ghost Towns Danville
Gregg Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 9-28-12 Trinidad
Madison Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 9-27-12Whitehouse
Smith Co Photos courtesy Lori Martin 9-25-12Markham
Matagorda Co Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 9-24-12Cortes
Matagorda Co 9-24-12 Old
Boston Bowie Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 9-22-12 |
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Columns
Boy
Captive becomes Department Store Draw by Mike Cox 9-20-12
To
attract shoppers to their big downtown store, Sanger Brothers would have on hand
for meeting and greeting customers a man who as a youth had been captured by Comanches.
Cows
by David Knape 9-20-12Sept.
17, 1875 - Indianola History Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 9-19-12
The
Deadly Tower by Murray Montgomery 9-18-12
One of the saddest days in Texas history occurred August 1, 1966. On that day
a crazed man started firing from the observation deck at the University of Texas
tower — picking random human targets on the ground and hitting them with
deadly accuracy... A
Snakebitten Legacy by Clay Coppedge 9-17-12
Father
Leopold Moczygemba, who founded the country’s first Polish community, first Polish
Catholic School and who also consecrated the first Polish Catholic Church, was
one person who had to pay a price in his own time for an honored place in history... |
| Towns
& Ghost Towns Fields
Store by Bruce Martin 9-14-12Blewett
by Raul Nolasco, Jr. 9-13-12Frankston
Anderson Co Photos courtesy Lori Martin & Michael G. Ellis 9-16-12Larue
Henderson Co Photo courtesy Roberta Niesz 9-16-12Reese
Cherokee Co Photo courtesy Amy Cumbie 9-16-12 | |
Columns
The
Good Old Days by Bob Bowman 9-16-12
East Texas after Civil WarTumbleweeds
by David Knape 9-15-12Ashbel
Smith's Foster Daughter by Wanda Orton 9-14-12
Native Baytonian and
retired Lee College professor Robert “Bob” Wright has many recollections of his
grandmother, Anna Allen Wright, foster daughter of Dr. Ashbel Smith... Beaumont
to Caldwell With a Boogie Woogie Beat by Frances Giles
9-14-12Mosquitoes
and Camp Bowie by Mike Cox 9-13-12
No
one knew anything about West Nile virus back in 1918, but at what proved to be
the mid-way point of the terrible conflict in Europe that would come to be known
as World War I, the military was fighting mosquitoes in North Texas.
Blue
Norther Poem by David Knape, Photos by Ken Rudine
9-13-12 |
| | Towns
& Ghost Towns Morris
Ranch Gillespie Co Ghost Town Photos courtesy Garry Taylor,
Barclay Gibson 9-10-12Arp
Smith Co Photos courtesy Lori Martin 9-12-12Gresham
Smith Co Photos courtesy Lori Martin 9-10-12Minden
Rusk Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 9-12-12 |
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| Towns
Poynor
Henderson Co Photos courtesy Gage Guinn 9-7-12Reese
Cherokee Co GLO vintage map 9-7-12Larue
Henderson Co GLO vintage map 9-5-12Glenwood
Upshur Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 9-5-12 Pritchett
Upshur Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 9-5-12 Hobson
Karnes County Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 9-2-12 | |
| Columns
Chuckwagon
History Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 9-4-12The
Texas Rangers at the Battle of Monterrey by Jeffrey Robenalt
9-3-12
During
the war with Mexico, the Texas Rangers played an instrumental role in the American
victory at the Battle of Monterrey.The
Oilman and the Sea by Clay Coppedge 9-3-12
Alfred
Glassell, Jr. wasn’t your typical Texas oilman, if there is such a thing... |
| | The
CCC Parks by Bob Bowman 9-3-12
During
the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) designed and constructed dozens
of state parks throughout Texas... Once
in a Blue Moon 9-2-12
Photos by Barclay Gibson
Poem
by David Knape | |
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