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Rescue
From the Sabine River
8-3-11
Texas
Acworth
10-28-10Addielou
11-10-10Agua
Dulce 4-8-11Aguilares
1-7-11Amherst
9-8-10Annona
9-9-10Ashland
3-28-12 Avery
9-26-10 Bagwell
9-20-10Baldwin
3-4-10Beaver
Dam 8-18-10Ben
Bolt 7-4-11Berea
3-4-10 Bernecker
7-20-10 Bethany
7-4-10Bethlehem
1-28-11 Bivins
6-5-10Black
Ankle 5-7-12Blackjack
1-17-13Bleiblerville
3-26-12Bluff
10-25-10 Boxelder
9-9-10Boxwood
7-7-12Boyd
Chapel 8-12-10Brachfield
4-16-12 Bronson
8-24-10Busby
7-20-10 Caledonia
3-4-12 Capitola
7-20-10Caps
8-5-10Carterville
8-12-10 Cat
Spring 5-21-12Chalk
Hill 3-9-12Cherry
10-24-10Chumley
5-7-12 Clarkwood
7-27-12Clayton
6-29-09Claytonville
7-20-10Coffeeville
7-31-12College
Hill 10-15-10Concord
10-31-12Concordia
5-16-11Cornett
7-30-10Cunningham
1-1-11 Danville
9-28-12 Darco
8-8-11 De
Berry 2-13-10Deadwood
12-5-09Denton
7-19-10 Deport
5-1-11 Diana
11-4-12 Dimple
4-20-11 Domino
6-25-10 Dotson
4-1-12 Douglassville
6-5-10Duff
8-22-12El
Campo Post Office Mural
"Rural Texas Gulf Coast" by Milford Zornes, 1939
4-18-09Emberson
8-17-12 English
8-21-10Faught
3-29-12 Faulkner
5-17-12 Fayetteville
School 6-1-10Flowella
4-10-11Freer
12-11-11 Gary
6-6-12Georgia
5-13-12Gethsemane
Community 5-1-10Glenwood
9-5-12 Gray
5-1-10Greggton
6-1-12Hagensport
3-25-11 Hallsville
8-9-10Hargill
TE's 2700th Town 9-26-11Hemphill
7-4-10 Hillister
6-1-09 Hooks
6-22-10Hoover
9-17-10Hovey
School 1-1-11Huffines
6-8-10Hughes
Springs 10-21-10Jasper
11-6-12Jonesville
8-11-11 Karnack
7-27-09 Kellyville
3-4-10 Kenney
5-23-12Kingsville
1-15-11Krebsville
4-23-12Laneville
5-2-12 Lassater
6-21-10Leary
7-7-10Leigh
7-27-09Liberty
11-2-10 Linden
Post Office Mural 7-24-10Loma
Alta 8-11-12Long
Branch 6-23-10Lydia
10-29-10 Macedonia
5-25-12Madras
8-14-10Manda
6-1-10 Marathon
6-1-10Marietta
7-31-10 Marshall
Springs 1-5-11Maud
7-7-10 Maxey
10-5-10
McKinney
Post Office Mural 11-24-09McNorton
8-8-12 Medill
10-19-12 Millheim
7-20-11 Milton
5-18-12 Minden
9-12-12 Minter
4-30-11 Monkstown
3-30-11Mount
Enterprise 6-21-10Mount
Mitchell 10-10-10Mount
Pleasant 8-12-10Murvaul
8-6-12Naples
8-6-10 Nash
7-7-10Negley
TE's 2600th Town 12-24-10
Nesbitt
10-22-10Noonday
8-9-10 Oak
Flats 8-18-12O'Farrell
6-3-10Old
Boston 9-20-12Old
Center 3-17-10Old
Dimple 10-14-12Old
Salem 10-15-10Omaha
5-26-12Oplin
7-12-10 Ore
City 4-19-11
Palestine
- The John H. Reagan Memorial
7-2-10
Palito
Blanco 3-10-11 Panola
3-17-10Patroon
6-7-10Paxton
6-8-10Pila
Blanca 11-1-10Pine
Springs 8-20-10Piney
9-28-10Pinehill
7-15-11 Pleasant
Ridge 10-5-12Pluck
6-1-09 Pone
1-1-13Powderly
6-4-12Pritchett
9-5-12 Queen
City 6-27-10Ragtown
6-16-12Rambo
8-24-10Razor
5-2-12 Realitos
11-1-10Red
Bank 7-7-10Red
Hill 6-5-10Redwater
8-21-10 Rugby
5-7-11Rusk's
Post Office Mural
- "Agriculture and Industry" by California Artist Bernard Zacheim, 1939 3-6-09
Salt
Flat 1-17-10Sand
Hill 3-14-12Santa
Cruz 4-20-11Sardis
7-20-10 Savannah
5-24-12Saxet
8-22-12Shadowland
9-22-10Shelbyville
5-2-10Slate
Shoals 8-17-12
Smithland
2-13-10Spivey
6-8-10 Springdale
6-28-10Stamps
6-17-12Stewart
3-5-12Tatum
4-1-11 Teneryville
5-2-12Texarkana
7-3-10 Tigertown
9-7-10 Truby
7-9-10Turcotte
11-5-10Turkey
Creek
10-5-10Uncertain
8-10-11 Unity
1-1-10 Victory
City 7-7-10View
9-12-10 Wake
Village 8-21-10Walkers'
Mill 1-31-11Weinert
7-27-10West
New Hope 9-16-10Westover
7-12-10 White
Oak 7-23-12White
Rock 8-19-10Woodlawn
6-7-10
Special Subjects
Shackleford
County Wind Farms 8-1-10Texas
Territorial Compromise of 1850 12-22-09 Last
Remaining International Boundary for The Republic of Texas
2-21-09
Lousiana
Shreveport's
Victorian Era Architecture
1-22-09
Begins January 2009 | Gerald
MasseyA self-described
Southern Gentleman, Gerald Massey was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1936. He
grew up on a farm near Blanchard, Louisiana, eight miles northwest of Shreveport.
In December of 1954 he began 17 years of employment with United Gas, a Shreveport
based company involved in natural gas production, transmission and distribution
throughout the gulf coast states. Gerald worked as mail clerk, storeroom clerk,
survey crew worker, pipe line construction inspector, and construction warehouse
manager. In these various roles he traveled and worked in Texas, Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, and “a lot in Louisiana.” In his duties he surveyed marshes,
river bottoms, and swamps. Two large milestones in his career were laying a pipeline
27 miles across Lake Pontchartrain and another was the construction of a pipeline
through the marshes, bays, and bayous from south of Houma to Empire, Louisiana.
Gerald
may be unique among his fellow Louisianans for his vast, hard-earned knowledge
of Louisiana and her waters did not involve fishing or boating. He served
in the US Army Military Police at Ft. Knox, Kentucky from 1959-1961.
In
2000 he completed 26 years with Kansas City Southern Railroad. His duties ranged
from track-laborer and section foreman to groundkeeper.
In 1992 he purchased
a "jet ski" which led to the writing of his book: “The Louisiana Boat Launch
Directory.” After finding that there was no such information available from
either the public library or the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department,
Gerald set out to examine and document each of over 900 boat launches, taking
three years to compile the information for his book.
His recreational
use of his “jet ski” covered nine years from age 56 to 65, a time when most people
are winding down. In the course of his travels he made the self-discovery of being
an adventurer and explorer. After logging several thousands of miles across his
home state, he has met and talked to hundreds of people, many of whom have become
friends. He has stated, "Even though I've lived and traveled Louisiana for 50
years (more or less) I never realized there was so much greatness and that I had
been missing so much. For the life of me I can't see why Louisianans need to
go somewhere else if they haven’t first seen their own state. Border to border
– and North of I-10 !"
Gerald is also an avid photographer with subjects
ranging from murals to architectural subjects. His photography extends back to
his railroading days and it was his focus on rural churches which led him to Texas
Escapes via Barclay Gibson’s
photography.
Mr. Massey has been invited to share his work with our readers. |
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