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Staff
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ABOUT
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Texas Escapes - online since 1998
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John
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Kate
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We are a husband
and wife team / staff of two. John Troesser is the editor, writer
and photographer while Kate is the webmaster and manager.
Texas
Escapes is a labor of love of two people, who happen to be fascinated
by just about everything that was or is Texas, just about every place
in Texas, and who have a driving passion to share Texas with the world.
Our visits to Texas towns
and ghost towns lead
us to a Texas we never knew
existed. Every town had at least one fascinating story or two - if
not 50. We decided to tell the stories of EVERY TOWN in Texas and
take it a step further by illustrating the stories with both historical
and contemporary images.
Telling the story of a town touches people in ways we could not anticipate.
A story of a West Texas ghost town brought letters from three generations
of citizens. We started getting letters from servicemen homesick for
the towns they once couldn't wait to leave. We heard from people who
remembered the importance of friendship during the Great Depression
- and a woman who remembered watering a lone mesquite tree in her
bare broom-swept West Texas yard.
These moving memoirs preserve personal history that would otherwise
have been lost. These memories are collected in TE as part of our
repository of the living history of Texas towns. Telling
the story of EVERY town and showing the images, past and present,
became our mission.
Living Histories / Oral
histories - We met people with fascinating tales of their hometowns.
Stories that no one now has time to hear. The need to record these
stories is paramount. When the storytellers are gone, they take their
stories with them. Recording their stories became
our mission.
WWII Chronicles
| WWI Chronicles :
The real stories about the sailors, soldiers and marines that everyone
in the war movies called "Tex." Stories that all too often didn't
have a happy ending. Stories of high school classes enlisting en mass
- and of heroes returning one at a time.
Telling their stories became our mission.
People:
Texans are often extraordinary personalities masquerading as everyday
citizens. TE is devoted to recording the stories of local people who
have exhibited the quiet virtue of character.
Cemeteries : Our
research takes us to many cemeteries. A society cannot call itself
civilized if it does not honor the final resting places of its antecedents.
With our expanding coverage we join forces with others in their efforts
to preserve and protect the state's scattered and neglected cemeteries.
Architecture:
This became an important part of TE. Buildings were the dreams of
our ancestors in brick and mortar and the demolished
architecture alone is strong inspiration to record what's left.
Presenting images of Texas' unique architecture,
and telling its stories, became our mission.
Contributors
| Forum :
Towns, people, history, and architecture are
all threads in the Texas tapestry. Sharing stories and images, and
providing a forum for those with stories to tell and images to record,
that too, became our mission.
Authorities in their respective
fields share their knowledge with their contributions. Readers
open their family albums and share their stories. If you have information,
stories or images to share, please contact
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OUR MISSION:
To
tell the stories of every Texas town.
To
examine and explore Texas architecture (to 1950).
To
record the living history and images of Texas, and
put this information in a format that's accessible and available
to all.
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