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October
2010 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. |
| Town:
Trinidad Henderson
Co Vintage map TGLO No Photos 10-29-10Town:
Pidcoke
Coryell Co Photos courtesy Richard Miller 10-29-10Town:
Lydia Red River
Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-29-10 Haunted
Places: Haunted Huntsville
by Dana Goolsby 10-29-10 |
| Town:
Truscott Knox Co
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-28-10Column:
The Great Chicken-Fried
Steak Hoax by Mike Cox 10-28-10
Ever
wonder how a legend gets started? I had a small role in the creation of what has
become one of Texas’ most enduring pieces of “fakelore” -- the story of the invention
of the chicken-fried steak. |
Town:
Acworth
Red River County Photos courtesy Gerald
Massey 10-28-10 Ghost
Town: Ozro
Ellis Co No photos 10-28-10 County
Seat: Roby
Fisher Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-27-10Courthouse:
Fisher County
Courthouse Photos
courtesy Terry Jeanson 10-27-10Cartoon:
October 21,
1822 by Roger T. Moore
10-27-10Column:
Curiosity
was Benjamin Franklin’s Secret to Success by Britt Towery 10-27-10Haunted
Places: Haunted Jacksonville
by Dana Goolsby 10-27-10
The Jacksonville City Cemetery
is said to be haunted, or at least a statue by the name of Mother Templeton is
said to be haunted. Ghost
Town: Hud Scurry
Co Vintage maps courtesy TGLO 10-26-10Town:
Hub
Parmer Co No Photos 10-26-10Column:
Flats make one worn
and tired by Delbert Trew 10-26-10
At
the height of my farming career I had so much flat and tire trouble the B.F Goodrich
Co. sent out a man to study my problems. Haunted
Places: “Demons
Rd” in Huntsville by Dana Goolsby
10-26-10
Bowden Rd, perhaps
better known as " Demons Rd,” leads to an old cemetery known as Martha’s Chapel
Cemetery... Ghost:
A
Huntin’ Ghost Story by Linda Kirkpatrick
10-25-10
Besides
being the time of ghosts and goblins, it is almost time for hunters to arrive.
Those of you who manage hunting leases and should any of you hunters arrive early
you might want to read this story very closely. Haunted
Places: Haunted
Nacogdoches by Dana Goolsby 10-24-10
Stephen
F. Austin State University is allegedly home to numerous spooks. The Turner Fine
Arts Auditorium at SFA has more than fine art in the building. A ghost named Chester
is believed to haunt the building... Town:
Bluff Red River
County Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-25-10
Town: Cherry
Red River County Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-24-10 |
| | Haunted
Places: Parker
Cemetery by Dana Goolsby 10-22-10
Parker
Cemetery has long since been the most talked about haunted place in Grapeland.Column:
CPR and JOSEFINA by Maggie
Van Ostrand 10-22-10
Medical
science could have saved itself a lot of trouble if the powers that be had consulted
my incredibly talented housekeeper, Josefina, before rescinding the tried-and-true
method of CPR. |
| Town:
Nesbitt
Harrison Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-22-10Town:
Anton Hockley
Co Photo courtesy Leaflet10-22-10 |
| Town:
Hughes Springs
Cass County Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-21-10Column:
Hughes
Springs and Trammell’s Treasure by Mike Cox
10-21-10
More
than 300 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, the community of Hughes Springs
owes its existence to a fanciful pirate story and one man who believed it. |
| Ghost
Town: White Spur
El Paso Co Courtesy Jerry Lobdill 10-21-10Town:
Anson
Jone Co seat Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-20-10 Town:
Floydada
Floyd Co Seat Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-19-10 Cartoon:
Drinking Whisky by Roger
T. Moore 10-20-10 |
| Town:
Pandora Wilson Co
Photos courtesy Jane Garza 10-17-10Column:
Haunted Places: The Perfect Haunted
House by Bob Bowman
10-17-10
With
Halloween upon us, it’s time to remember the old Bonner house west of Lufkin,
which has been called the perfect haunted house. But it had also has a rich history...
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People:
Frontier Doctors by Clay Coppedge
10-15-10
John F. Webber
and Gail Borden Town:
College Hill
Bowie Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey, TGLO vintage map 10-15-10Town:
Old Salem Bowie
Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 10-15-10Town:
Pineland
Sabine Co No Photos 10-15-10 Town:
Rosevine Sabine
Co No Photos 10-15-10Haunted
Places:
The Haunting
of the Old Travis County Jail by Mike Cox
10-14-10
Harvey, 34, had
the distinction of being the last of nine men legally hanged in the castle-like
stone jail, built for $100,000 in 1876 at the corner of 11th and Brazos streets
— present location of the Dewitt C. Greer Building, headquarters of what is now
the Texas Department of Transportation. Animals:
Black Bears Return
to East Texas by Dana Goolsby 10-14-10 |
| People:
Being
Sent to the Abattoir Wasn’t Sam’s Lot in Life by Bill Cherry
10-13-10
Mr. Sam, like his
brothers, cousins and uncles, worked for the patriarch of the family, Jasper Tramonte.
Mr. Jasper had a meat-packing business on Broadway, near 61st Street. It was called
the High Grade Packing Co... Town:
Normangee
Leon Co Photo courtesy Kathy Toalson Staples 10-13-10 |
People:
The
Mystery Man by Bob Bowman
10-3-10
Daingerfield,
the county seat of Morris County, was named for Captain London Daingerfield, supposedly
a native of Nova Scotia, but beyond that and a few other facts, Captain Daingerfield
remains a mystery man... |
| | People:
The
Tar and Feathering of Father Joseph M. Keller, Slaton, Texas, 1920's by James
Villanueva
10-1-10
On
a Saturday night, March 4, 1922, in Slaton, what may have begun as a whisper,
an aside, a comment, or just mindless chatter amongst neighbors, transformed the
community... |
| The
Quest: Ignoring
Warning Signs by Barclay Gibson 10-1-10
Searching
for the “Buried Here”1936 Texas Centennial marker
“Warren Wagon Train Massacre”
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