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Texas
Escapes Online Magazine
Historic Texas & Travel
April Issue 2005 |
Seminole,
Texas 4-3-05
Vintage photos courtesy Ann
Brennand Martin Williams |  |
| Catarina
Photos courtesy Jason Penney 4-18-05 |
| Crosbyton
4-19-05
Vintage photos courtesy Margot Hardin
& City of Crosbyton Phillips
4-23-05
Old postcards courtesy Ken Sharpe Collection:
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| Midday
at the Oasis by
Johnny Stucco new 5-1-05
Photos by Erik
Whetstone
"Having never pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline,
this station-that-never-was has become our symbol for a particular period in Texas
history." |
| Sidewalks
of Wink 4-26-05
Like-New Sidewalks and a Paper
Historical Marker
by Johnny Stucco. Photos Courtesy of Lou Ann Herda
"Wink
qualified as a perfect example - the "poster child" for Urban Renewal in Texas...
The whole operation was a tremendous success - except for one minor point. Nearly
the whole town had left." |
HISTORICAL
Archie P. McDonald
Sharecroppers
4-24-05
Prior to the Civil War, 70 percent of
Southern farmers tilled soil they owned. A legacy of the destruction and social
and economic reorganization that war produced was the reversal of that statistic:
afterwards, 70 percent farmed land owned by others.Doris
Miller: Hero 4-10-05
African American hero
of WWII
Bob Bowman
Scrolling
Through History by Bob Bowman 4-17-05
The
search system -- which has brought unbridled joy to genealogists and historians
-- is believed to be the most comprehensive county archive system in Texas.Shacklefoot
4-3-05
The community existed two centuries ago
as a robbers den perched on the Texas side of the Sabine River somewhere near
the present-day settlement of Patroon Bay on Toledo Bend Reservoir.
Mike
Cox
Patriots
4-26-05
The
American Revolution lasted seven years, affording plenty of men the opportunity
to go down in history as patriots.
Freeny
Hanging 4-17-05
James Washington White lost
an arm fighting for the South during the Civil War. He could have spent the rest
of his life seething with bitterness, but that’s not how it turned out.Twin
Sisters 4-5-05
The most famous pieces of artillery
in Texas historyValley
Talk 4-5-06
"Even though settlement developed
along the lower Rio Grande in Spanish colonial times, when Robertson first saw
the Valley, the longhorn cows, deer, coyotes, Mexican lions, javelinas, wild pigeons,
turkeys and chacalacas, which lived happily in the jungle along the Resaca ...
were not disturbed. That soon changed ..."
REGIONAL
Delbert TrewPoint
of view depends on viewing point 4-11-05
Some
cuss words aren't really cuss words 4-5-05
Clay
CoppedgeGroovin'
at The Grove 4-1-05
Louise George
From
Place to Place 4-17-05
N. Ray Maxie
Uncertain, Texas, Caddo Lake and Cypress Trees 4-20-05
| HUMOR
& OPINION
Maggie Van Ostrand
The
Pig Book 4-20-05
"According to the 2005
Congressional Pig Book, which compiles the wasteful pet projects of gluttonous
appropriators, Congress managed to shove 13,997 pork projects into 13 appropriations
bills, for a total of $27.3 BILLION. That's almost as much as Bill Gates makes
in an hour."Superman
Is An Illegal, or, Humor and Satire in the Corrido 4-4-05
Peary
Perry
Einstein
and Luggage 4-26-05
"Once again I have
discovered another link between ordinary household items and the mysteries and
marvels of the universe." Herding
Cats 4-20-05
"My
first Sunday evening was a total disaster, it was like herding cats. No, worse
than that. You know that game at the carnival where you have a little hammer and
you hit these popup things and as soon as you hit one …another pops up and you
try to hit it? That’s how these boys were."Women
Want Details, Men Cut to the Chase 4-17-05
"How
come when babies are born, the way men describe them is entirely different from
women?"Grandparenting
4-8-05Old
Dogs, New Tricks 4-1-05
Elizabeth Bussey
Sowdal
Granny
Pants 4-17-05 Men
I Wanted to Marry 4-5-05
John
Gosselink
A
Spring Clean Getaway 4-23-05
"I
realize it’s not officially spring yet, but have you noticed that the official
“seasons” of the calendar have nothing to do with Texas and Texas weather. If
it weren’t for the school calendar (oh, it’s homecoming, must be fall), I wouldn’t
even know what season we’re in."
MEMOIR
George
Lester
The
Field Trip 4-20-05 | They
Shoe Horses, Don't They?
Bend,
Texas by Harland
Moore 4-20-05
San
Saba County Chronicles
"In this account of the history of Bend, Texas,
it may sound like that my ancestors invented the earth, inhabited it, created
Bend, Texas, and hung the moon..."Bethel
Community by Shirley Thompson Mohler 4-18-05
Romance at the mailboxes, smuggled books and why pregnant women couldn't teach.
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