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Love, Marriage,
& Weddings
Texas Style
"By all means,
marry.
If you marry a good woman you will be happy.
If you marry a bad woman you will become a philosopher." - Socrates
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Romance
Valentine’s
Day by Mike Cox 2-14-08
Must have been around Valentine’s Day in 1877 when a young man named
Donaho took pen in hand to write a love letter to his sweetheart
in Dallas...
A
Texas-Norwegian-German Valentine
2-14-08
'No Person Shall Put Asunder' by Benard Burson - A synopsis
Speak
for yourself, Robert by Archie P. McDonald
Sam Houston was a man of many loves...
Outlaw
Letter by Mike Cox
An outlaw's love letter in 1878
Pirate
chieftain Jean Laffite and Polly Crow
Lillian
by George Lester
"Probably every boy has had a crush a girl who didn't even
know he was alive. It happened to me."
Romance
at Spunky Flat or Little Schoolhouse in the Cotton Field
The
Espersons - The "Mr. and Mrs. Esperson Buildings".
Weddings
& Elopements
The
Tailor and the Hideaway Bride: The man who kept his wife in
stitches
The
Bride, He Wore White Or How Men Wed in 1953 Waco
by John Troesser
Right
lubrication greases squeakiest of wheels by Delbert Trew
Many classic Old West tales are similar in plot but different in
location. The following tale has been told many times with the same
plot but featuring different ranches, different characters and different
tunes. The original story is probably true, but where it happened
is anybody's guess. Our version here supposedly happened on the
famed XIT Ranch...
Drive-up
Wedding 1906
Marriage
Happy
Trails
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 5-9-08
By the time you read this I will be a long gone baby! Our vacation,
the first in two years (two really awful years, if you want to know),
will be well underway...
Doe
and a Bride by Mike Cox
Anyone accidentally walking up on the young couple sitting on a
wagon tongue near Brushy Creek outside Round Rock that day would
have realized they discussed something very important. Indeed, their
topic had to do with the rest of their lives.
“I
Now Thee Wed”, Half a Century Later…. by N. Ray Maxie
FLASHBACK TO 1957….. We, the 1957 McLeod Longhorn seniors, each
and everyone had our head full of dreams, all twenty-one of us.
Life was new and fresh for this small group of eighteen-year-old
wannabes...
Transitions
by Mike Cox
When you take time to think about it, everything in life is in a
state of transition. Back in 1921, a young Methodist preacher assigned
to the vastness of the South Plains approached a major transition
– the adjustment from single life to being married...
A
Blessed Event by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
This week Mike and I have had a taste of what it is going to be
like when our empty nest is truly and finally empty...
Delicious
Crow by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
I flipped out this weekend. I lost my temper and I told my husband
everything - and I mean every single thing - that I was thinking...
Reconstruction
Valentine by Mike Cox
In modern chick-flick speak, Ansel "Hance" McKinney must have had
a "fear of commitment." Before marching off to fight for the South
at the beginning of the Civil War, the 23-year-old Goliad County
cattleman gave a ring to his younger sweetheart, 15-year-old Martha
Campbell...
Subtext
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
We have... evolved a different way of expressing our irritation.
When we are stressed out by circumstances, tired, down-trodden and
cranky we do not throw dishes or scream, "I hate you, ya big poo-
head." ... Instead we have subtexts...
The
Truth About Love by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
Here it is, the truth about love. Some of you know it already. Some
of you will read it and scoff. "Ha!" you will say, "what does she
know about it? Obviously nothing! She knows nothing about love,
real love, true love." I can hear you saying that now. And I have
to tell you two things...
Man
Should Not Live Alone by Peary Perry
As I recall somewhere it is written, "Man should not live alone."
I don't remember if this is in the bible or some other place, but
as whoever wrote it (God?) was a really smart fellow, or person
(to be gender sensitive)...
Men
I Wanted to Marry by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
Home
Improvement by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"It is the strong marriage that survives each spring without
a tremor or two."
Butter
Manners by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"The women in our family can be as sweet and mild as milk through
all kinds of adversity. But everyone has their breaking point..."
Love
is in the Hair by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"In the early years of our marriage, romance was a challenge...
"
For
Better or Worse by Louise George
In their own words some of yesterday’s brides tell about their weddings
and the early days of their marriages. Texas Panhandle in the early
1900s.
Two
addendums to vows help marriage to last by Delbert Trew
"Unlike the Ten Commandments, which were chiseled in stone
to prevent erasure or change, marriage vows are merely spoken. This
allows these sacred promises to be forgotten, ignored, misunderstood,
changed or deleted by the modern-day theory of "doing whatever feels
good at the moment." ... more
‘Harmful
to Marriage' Questions by Peary Perry
"A question such as this requires extreme diplomacy, tact and
sensitivity training to answer properly. Having said that, let me
add… give it up you and I don’t have the ability to do this. If
you can, run…."
50-50
VS 110% by Peary Perry
"Marriage is not all wine and roses, sometimes its vinegar
and weeds."
Fayetteville
Photographer William Tauch
Doomed
"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose
the next best."
- William Makepeace Thackeray.
Schulenburg's
Heartbreak Hotel
Leaping
Lovers by Mike Cox
Knowing their love can never be, the young couple stare at the swirling
river far below. One last kiss, and then, holding hands, they leap
off the cliff, united forever in death - and legend.
Texas has at least four landmarks known as Lover's Leaps ...
Metheglin
Creek by Clay Coppedge
How the creek got its name
Old
Buddy George by George Lester
I have tried to avoid bringing my domestic life into these stories
but I felt at this time it is necessary in order to explain events
that occurred later. Shortly after I arrived in El Dorado, Arkansas
I received word that the divorce was final and my marriage had ended.
...
Where
are you Benny Goodenberger?
by Perry Peary
In his last letter, he wrote ”Mom, I am worried about this trip…if,
by chance anything should happen to me, there is this girl, Benny
Goodenberger, in …………, and I’d like you to tell her what happened
to me.”
Where
Mother
Neff State Park by Clay Coppedge
"It's especially popular with couples who want to say "I do"
amid the oak, elm, juniper and cottonwood trees near the banks of
the Leon River. The park is the setting for about 30 weddings a
year."
Love's
Lookout by Bob Bowman
Perched atop a scenic forested ridge beside U.S. Highway 69 north
of Jacksonville, Love's Lookout offers perhaps the grandest view
in East Texas.
What
The
Wedding Oak, San Saba, Texas
Issues
Harvard
Strangles First Amendment
... and what women really want
Miscellaneous
My
Heart on a Sleeve
by Gael Montana 2-3-08
"...Valentine's Day has traditionally been the scene of massive
romantic disasters around here. My husband and I even waited to
get hitched until two days afterwards to avoid that pesky dark cloud.
If you recall, Chicago has a rather grisly connection with Valentine's
Day..."
The
Saddest Valentine by John Troesser
True
love prevails
Or outsmarts his girl’s dad
Vintage
Wedding Photos
Vattmann,
Texas
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Texas
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