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February 2017 Issue
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Texas Towns & Ghost Towns:

Columns:

Oak Hill Bastrop Co 2-20-17

Ballinger Runnels Co seat 2-18-17
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson et al.

Lueders Jones Co 2-19-17
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson, Mike Price & Erik Whetstone

Poteet Atascosa Co 2-14-17
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Hallettsville - Jewish Cemetery Lavaca Co 2-10-17
Photos by John Troesser

Ringgold Montague Co 2-8-17
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson, Kelly Campbell et al.

William Penn Washington Co 2-5-17
Courtesy Gerald Massey & John J. Germann

Benoit Runnels Co 2-3-17
Photos courtesy Stephen Tayor, & Jim & Lou Kinsey

Glidden Colorado Co 2-2-17
Photos courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library

Faysville Hidalgo Co 2-1-17
Photos courtesy Gerald Massey

Vessey Red River Co 2-1-17
Courtesy John Germann

Maggie Van Ostrand's "A Balloon in Cactus" columns

Best Pictures That Never Won Best Picture Oscar 2-24-17

Agida 2-17-17
I overheard an entire monologue that cannot be improved upon. Every word is a gem.

Mike Cox's "Texas Tales"

Gunfight in King County 2-23-17

Jersey Lilly and Judge Roy Bean 2-15-17

A Texas Potpourri 2-9-17

"The Coffee that Won the West" 2-2-17
Arbuckles' became a synonym for coffee.

Michael Barr "Hindsights" Columns

Wind Chargers 2-15-17

The Lost Spanish Mine 2-1-17
For centuries the legend of the Lost Spanish Mine has lured fortune hunters into the Texas Hill Country. That legend began on a hill south of Llano.

Clay Coppedge

Henry Skillman, frontier mail courier 2-4-16
Today, historians know Skillman best as the man who drove the first west-bound Overland Butterfield Mail stage from Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River to El Paso in 1858.

Book Reviews

Fort Worth's Rock and Roll Roots by Mark A. Nobles
Review by Dr. Kirk Bane 2-2-17
In early 1964, Beatlemania hit the United States "like a tidal wave." Before long, a vibrant rock and roll youth scene emerged in Fort Worth, with battles of the bands, concerts, locally televised bandstands, and teen-a-go-gos (dances) entertaining the city's teenagers.

Guest Columns

A Valentine's Day Love Story by Barbara Duvall Wesolek 2-6-17

"Once Upon A Line" by d. knape

In Winter Woods 2-27-17

Dance of Birds 2-20-17

Death Of A Water Tower 2-14-17

Chasing Rabbits 2-7-17

Cartoons by Roger T. Moore

1913 - Spanish Language Newspaper 2-22-17

Peyote in Church 2-14-17

Feb. 6, 1879 - The first Czech newspaper 2-8-17

January 19, 1858 - First School Chartered 2-1-17