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March
2011 Issue
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Special
Guest Column
Muenster
- Old Europe in Frontier Texas by John Hellman 3-3-11
...
Although they were hardly conscious of it, there was something peculiarly medieval
about pockets of European culture in America like those scattered German parish
communities who arrived in Texas (my grandparents as small children) in the late
nineteen century, and eventually prospered on the rolling lands which ran down
to the Red River valley and the Oklahoma border of east Texas... |
| Texas
History A
March into Hell: The Mier Expedition by Jeffery Robenalt 3-11-11
In
the aftermath of President Mirabeau Lamar's ill-fated expedition to Santa Fe,
his successor, Sam Houston, did his best to maintain an uneasy peace between Mexico
and the Republic of Texas. However, after Santa Anna twice ordered Mexican troops
to occupy San Antonio, political pressure for action eventually forced Houston
to dispatch General Alexander Somervell and 750 volunteers to the Rio Grande.
What began as a demonstration in force soon ended in "A March into Hell: The Mier
Expedition." |
| Ghost
Town Ghost
Town Honeymoon Or Lunamiel en el Rio Frio
Story
and Photographs by Josa Combs 3-16-11
A
newly-wedded couple drives to desolate Frio County in the late 1980s to camp alongside
the Frio River. Thanks to the kindness of a mysterious writer, they’re allowed
to discover the crumbling ruins of Frio County’s first seat of government. Frio
Town Photos courtesy Josa Combs & Barclay Gibson
3-16-11
Former
Frio County seat |
| Ghost
Town Sunshine
Hill Wichita Co 3-29-11
"Sunshine
Hill, TX fell victim to a grassfire on March 22, 2011" - Keith Vaughn |
| | People
The
Misadventures of Wrong-Way Corrigan by Maggie Van Ostrand 3-9-11
Famed
Douglas Corrigan tried for years to get permission to fly from New York to Dublin.
"No," said aviation officials, "it's not safe..., we give you permission to fly
from New York to California." Corrigan finally took off in heavy fog.... 28 hours
later, he arrived in Dublin. Corrigan claimed it was a "navigational error." Whatever
it was, he got to his dream destination and didn't even mind it when newspapers
dubbed him "Wrong-Way Corrigan"... |
Town:
Whitewright
Grayson Co 3-31-11Town:
Monkstown
Fannin Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 3-30-11Column:
The Boy With Two Tombstones
by Mike Cox 3-30-11
"Ellis…Son
of [missing] Born March 3, 1870 – Died Nov. 28, 1872." Not only was it odd
to discover a tombstone in a flower bed, the dates it bore presented a mystery
on top of a mystery... |
People:
The Caudles: A Family
of Entertainers by Robert G. Cowser 3-29-11
On
those evenings after we had visited the Arthurs, my parents would tell my brother
and me about the performances of the Caudle troupe they had seen before I was
born. Column:
Cherokee
outlet, strip not the same by Delbert Trew 3-29-11
Contrary
to popular belief, The Cherokee Outlet and The Cherokee Strip are not one and
the same. Here is the explanation according to Kansas and Oklahoma history...
Column:
East Texas Traditions by
Bob Bowman 3-28-11
A
friend who recently moved to East Texas from Ohio says he is aghast that city
residents here are allowed to burn leaves in their yard whenever they want. What
my friend doesn't realize is that he's bucking an old East Texas tradition. ...
Town: Hagensport
Franklin Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 3-25-11 Storm:
The Chilled
Catfish of Concho County by Mike Cox 3-24-11
As
Cline watched in horror, a watery cliff crashed into a wagon, sending it and its
occupants tumbling downstream. That was shocking, but what Cline saw next was
simply bizarre. No matter the tragedy that has just unfolded, men soon began gathering
along the river and pulling big fish from the water... |
| People:
Fort Davis
and Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson by Byron Browne 3-23-11
The
assignment to Fort Davis should have been relatively calm. However, the Mescalero
Apache chief Victorio saw to it that Grierson and his soldiers remained active...
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People:
Fruit Tree Ramsey by Clay
Coppedge 3-22-11
When
Frank T. Ramsey was 16 years old, he quit going to school and became a partner
in his father’s nursery business in Burnet County. His father, Alexander M. Ramsey,
wrote down a list of fruit tree varieties that he had for sale and put his son
and business partner on a horse. Frank traveled all over Texas, taking orders
for trees and collecting native flora along the way... Column:
Grasslands rooted in dust
by Delbert Trew 3-22-11
Just
how, when and why did the establishment of these "national" grassland places take
place? We have to go back to 1933, the worst year of The Great Depression, The
Dust Bowl and the "First Hundred Days" of the New Deal of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. |
| Port
Aransas Port
Aransas Nueces Co
Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley & Ken Rudine 3-21-11
Fishing in Port Aransas
by Mike Cox 3-10-11
Hard
to believe, but Texans haven’t always fished just for fun. Along the coast, from
the time of the fierce Karankawas until the latter days of the 19th century, fishing
was about eating, not a recreational pursuit. |
Column:
Remembering Columbia by Bob
Bowman 3-20-11
On
February 1, 2003, as the world followed the return of Space Shuttle Columbia,
something deadly went wrong with the flight over East Texas. In seconds, the shuttle
and its crew plummeted to the ground in Sabine County.Column:
Palo Duro Gold Rush of
1949 by Mike Cox 3-18-11
Once
upon a time, a shower of shiny gold coins fell from the sky over Palo Duro Canyon
State Park south of Amarillo... |
| Mission:
Mission
Santa Cruz de San Sabá
Menard Co Photos courtesy Barclay
Gibson 3-16-11
March 16,
1758,
Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá was attacked by a force of 2,000 Comanche Indians
and their allies. |
| Town:
Pearland Brazoria
Co Courtesy Pearland Historical Society 3-15-11Folklore:
The Wolfman of Comstock
by Gary Humphreys 3-15-11
This
is a true story told to me by my mother, during the fifties…… |
| Dog
Story Smithville's
Dexter - From Underdog to Best of (Picture) Show by Ted R. Krueger 3-13-10
"Adena Lewis called
asking us to bring our dogs to a casting call for the movie "The Tree of Life"
that was soon to be filmed in Smithville. The director, Terrence Malick, wanted
the "hero dog" (to be called "Shep" in the movie) to be an untrained dog..." |
| Vintage
Photos Building:
Old Capitol
Courtesy Murray Montgomery Collection 3-10-11Ghost
Town: Tonqua DeWitt
Co Courtesy Deborah Smith 3-10-11
TownPalito
Blanco Jim Wells Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 3-10-11 |
| Ghost
TownOld
Bevilport Jasper Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 3-9-11
by Bob Bowman
History
laid a heavy hand on Bevilport. But you won’t find it on many road maps or marked
by highway signs...Augusta
Houston Co Photos courtesy Dana Goolsby 3-8-11 |
Ghost
Towns Gomez
Terry Co Vintage map TGLO 3-7-11
One
name, two ghosts
Tokio,
Texas Terry Co Photos courtesy Jason Penney 3-7-11 |
| | Small
Town ZenNaivete
in Florala, Alabama by Johnny Stucco 3-4-11
Woodie
paint a mural? We’ll bet he would.
Florala is one of those places like Texarkana
that straddles state lines and has a name cobbled together from both hosts... |
People:
UTMB
Professor “Old Test Tube” Took the First X-Ray Ever Taken in Texas by Bill
Cherry 3-4-11
The
only one of the original 1891 faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch
who graduated from the University of Texas in Austin was Dr. Seth Morris... Everyone,
students as well as the medical staff, got to calling him “Old Test Tube” ...
Jail: Old
Frio County Jail Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 3-4-11
Now
Frio Pioneer Jail Museum, Pearsall, Texas |
Column:
Pronghorn Antelope by
Mike Cox 3-3-11
No
thanks to Lester B. Colby and anyone else who may have done what he did, thousands
of pronghorn antelope are still home on the range in the Panhandle. Ghost
Town: Cele
Travis Co Photos courtesy Bryan D Reynolds 3-3-11Ghost
Town: Duval Winkler
Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 3-2-11 |
| | Ghost
Towns Verand
Schleicher Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 3-1-11 Sabine
Jefferson Co Photos courtesy Bryan D Reynolds 3-1-11Langtry
Val Verde Co Photos courtesy Bryan D Reynold 3-1-11
Pandale
Val Verde Co Photos courtesy David Armstrong 3-1-11 |
Column:
Farming machinery
most reliable friend by Delbert Trew 3-1-11
With
only me, myself and I to do the work I stay busy at trying to stay out of a rest
home. However, with age creeping up, muscles and bones not as strong as in the
past, I find myself depending more and more on my best friend Jose Kubota.Column:
Food for the family
in tough times..... And the tools to use by Nolan Maxie 3-1-11
We
grew many various kinds of vegetables in the garden; onions; cabage; lettuce;
carrots; radishes; turnips; beans; peas; squash; orka; cellery and others. You
can do it yourself, too! |
| | Ghost
Town: Ben Ficklin
Tom Green Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Town:
Veribest
Tom Green Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson Town:
Camp Air
Mason Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson | |
| Animal
of the MonthSandhill
Crane by Bonnie
Wroblewski
Honored
as symbols of marital fidelity and conjugal bliss throughout Southeast Asia, the
native cultures of India, and Japan (where it is customary to adorn wedding gifts
with folded origami cranes in place of ribbons and bows), gruids have a celebrated
reputation for monogamy in folklore as well as in scientific investigations. |
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