Vintage Galveston Vintage Galveston, Electric Park and Camp Bowie pictures are among the images I discovered in a rare World War I scrapbook in 2018. I purchased it at a local flea marketing in Oklahoma City. This is Part 2 in the blog post series highlighting these incredible World War 1-era...
I moved around a lot as a kid, and one of the placed I lived for a couple of years was Gilmer, Texas. I have lots of great memories of my junior high years as a Gilmer Buckeye. My favorite thing of all was the annual East Texas Yamboree. I loved seeing the Yamboree Queen and her court waving in...
“But that’s the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.” ―Markham Shaw...
…Summer, long forgotten and forgiven gives you away. Presses you into the chain links of a cold high fence, In the City of Angels. Tumbleweed, you gathered no snow. But in threes, gathered together, the angels make you into a snowman. Your thorns painted white and your smile just so. With a...
e Tumbleweeds like the ones in Kermit, Texas | Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia I am nine years old and walking from our house on Harrison Street all the way up to Highway 302. Kermit, Texas, 1977. I turn left on Monroe and then right on Bellaire, a long stretch that takes me to the Texas road that...
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