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Max
Schindler (center) and Sons, 1910
Photo by Charles Renz, Colorado County
Photo Courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library |
The
Willie Payne Family’s Famous Himalayan Singing Kitten Enterprise by Bill Cherry
6-6-11
"Willie
started wondering what common threads run among all of those business people who
amass great fortunes. It turned out it wasn’t excessive education or family money
or luck. The common thread was almost all had been child entrepreneurs..."Archeological
Diversion Ensured Granddad a Quiet Hunt by Mike Cox
My eyes should have
been scanning the sky for birds as we walked with our shotguns down the two-rut
ranch road toward the old Aermotor windmill, but I was looking at the ground.
It's a habit of long standing and doubtless has accounted for many missed dove
over the years, but there’s a good reason behind it... My
Son Has Just Received His First Car by Byron Browne
For my son the vehicle
offers status, maturity and of course the freedom of rapid access to whom and
whatever he feels drawn towards. For myself I had the selfish and dour thought
that the car was just another element propelling my son away from home.Father-Son
Talk by Peary Perry
Our youngest son is getting married in a few weeks.
Father’s
Day by Peary Perry
There are a lot of things I would have liked to have
asked my father, but was too dumb to think of while he was alive... History
depends on who's telling by Delbert Trew
I recall an incident in my early
years when a nasty bit of gossip about a neighbor made the rounds. I privately
asked my father about it and he gave sound advice that I have never forgotten...
An
Introduction of Two Persons
From "The Americanization of Edward Bok:
The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After"
“Make the world a
bit more beautiful and better because you have been in it.” Milton’s
Rosenberg Library by Bill Cherry
Tripo was one of the many who immigrated
to America and the island, and became the strong threads of the city’s fabric.
Tripo married Adele Pechacek, and soon Milton was born. In fact he was born on
the 100th anniversary of Texas Independence; March 2, 1936...Necktie:
Torture device of men's fashion by Delbert Trew
The necktie, one of the
few men's fashions to survive 400 years of change, will be presented to 4.5 million
dads on Father's Day each year...Graduation
Day by Peary Perry
"...My kids all wanted to know why a degree was
so important at this stage in my life and I told them it was for them more than
for me. I wanted them to be able to say to their kids and grand kids that it was
never too late to go to school. If your grandfather can do it at 65, so can you..."
Patching
Pot Holes in the Dirt Road by N. Ray Maxie
"This road-patching chore
occurred fairly often. The dirt was soft and wouldn’t last many weeks. With the
rain, the wheels splashing, it washed out the holes again, plus some new ones.
But all this is the joy of a dirt road, of father and son working together..."
Bura
Handley by Phil Handley
Chances are good that those citizens of Wellington
whose age is less than 60 years may sometimes wonder just what the man whose name
adorns the Bura Handley Community Center was really like. Perhaps this small accounting
of history will provide some answers to that question, as well as a degree of
insight into the character, integrity, and sheer genius of the man whom I was
privileged to call my “Dad”, while others simply referred to him as “Mister Wellington.”..
35
Years of Humble Service: San Antonio's C.K. Brown by
Mel Brown
"My grandfather, C. K. Brown was nearing the end of a 35 year
long career with The Humble Oil & Refining Co. as a truck driver..."
Great-grandpa
wasn’t popular in the South by W. T. Block
My great-grandpa Duncan Smith
was about as popular among his slave-holding neighbors as a skunk in church. Most
Southerners expected an Abolitionist to be from some Northern state... The
River Rat Boys by W. T. Block
"He had just
made his promise to me, and I knew it was as good as gold. Pa's like that--he
always said his word was his bond. Oh, he has his faults, lots of them, of course,
like every boy's father has, but telling lies ain't - oops - isn't one of them.
But he has a way of putting a 'catch' into his promises, or maybe I should say
his 'bargains.' And that is exactly what I'm doing now..." Poor
Fatherless Child by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
You know I write a little
bit. I do it because it is fun. I do it to clarify my thoughts and feelings. I
do it to let off steam. I am not sure why I do it, but most of the time I like
it. This week, yesterday it was, though it feels like one hundred years ago now,
I had to write something. Just a very few words and you would have thought it
wouldn't have been so hard. I had to write my father's obituary... My
Father's Desk by Wayne Scott
Judge Leonard W. Scott
of Caldwell County
The
Big Move by George Lester
"Sam and I were perfectly happy with life
at our Lorena rural home. Then one day our father came in to announce that he
had bought a farm near Marlin, and we would be moving down there in a few months..."
Goodnight
Paw. Did You Turn the Rooster 'round? by N. Ray Maxie
"... My father's
earliest beginnings were growing up on a large working farm in northeast Texas
with his parents and four siblings. Two male siblings died as infants from an
infection I believe they called typhus. One was born about a year before my father
and the other born a year or so after him. Thus, dad being born right between
the two that didn't survive, in a way started life as a survivor..." Daddy's
Favorite Song by Sandy Williams Driver
"My daddy loved country music.
He used to tell me stories about his family gathering around their old Zenith
radio back in the early 1930s and listening to the latest bluegrass tunes each
Saturday night on the live Grand Ole Opry broadcast. The late 1940s brought the
haunting voice over the airways of the man my daddy always proclaimed to be "the
best country music singer of all time" -- Hank Williams. As far as I know, the
legendary performer was no relation to my father, Dalton Williams, even though
both men were tall and thin with beautiful eyes..."
Grandfather
by A. S. Friedell
"My grandparents raised pigs, chickens, guineas with
their loud ka-track, ka-track, and the necessary milk cows and their calves. My
grandmother would send me into the chicken house or even under the farm house
to gather eggs..."Our
Buick Pickup Truck by George Lester
"The oil boom in west Texas played
out in the thirties, so many people started migrating back east again. My father
was one of them..."
Thergood's
Pine by Bob BowmanHunter
Texas in the 20s and 30s
A Memoir by Pablo L. SanchezWorld
War II Sign Painters in Chicago
1943 Photo courtesy James A. Wilson Jr
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