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- Chaucer, The Knightes Tale.


Roger T. Moore Weekly "MOORE TEXAS" CARTOONS 8-19-08

ESSAYS ON TEXAS HISTORY

Bob Bowman Weekly. Syndicated in 70 newspapers
"All Things Historical" columns >
• Chautauqua 8-18-08
Dominating Getzendaner Park in Waxahachie, a large wooden, octagonal-roofed pavilion stands as a symbol of entertainment and enlightment in the days before movies and television...
• The Mystery of Caddo Mounds 8-4-08
• Buena Vista 7-21-08
• The Legend Of Bone Hill 7-7-08
• more

Archie P. McDonald Weekly. Syndicated in 70 newspapers
"All Things Historical" columns >
• The East Texas Historical Association 8-11-08
The tag at the end of each "All Things Historical" article, whether written by my colleague Bob Bowman or this correspondent, says that is it a service of "the East Texas Historical Association." Likely many readers do not know much about this organization, so for your information....
• Howard Hughes 7-28-08
• Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 7-14-08
• more

W. T. Block Jr.
"Cannonball's Tales" columns >

Murray Montgomery Syndicated in 5 newspapers
"Lone Star Diary" columns >
• All Veterans Should Be Honored 8-8-08
The veterans of World War II have been labeled, “The Greatest Generation,” and they certainly merit that title. But since that time, including the present, this country has been involved in other wars. However, the veterans of these later wars have not received the tribute that is due them for serving their country.
• Former slave recalls memories of old Lavaca County 7-7-08
• more

C. F. Eckhardt
"Charley Eckhardt's Texas " columns >
• The Many Legends of La Llorona 8-12-08
"To set the La Llorona story straight once & for all. I've been digging into La Llorona for nearly forty years. This article pretty much sums up what I've found."
• The Eckhart Name in Yorktown and Elsewhere 8-1-08
• Al Jennings 7-21-08
• The L-O-N-G Roads of Texas: Texas-State-Highway-16
• more

Mike Cox Weekly. Syndicated in 11 newspapers
"Texas Tales" columns >
• Million Barrel Hole 8-14-08
One of Texas’ most impressive engineering feats is nothing but a hole in the ground today, an idea that tanked big time. In 1928, however, anything seemed possible...
• Trivia 8-7-08
• Possum Trot 7-30-08
• Steamship Texas Ranger 7-24-08
• Old Pecos 7-17-08
• Cuttings 7-10-08
• Terry's Texas Rangers 7-3-08
• more

Delbert Trew Amarillo Globe-Sun
"It's All Trew" columns >
• Stetson led way for modern cowboy hats 8-19-08
In about 1860 the "perfect headpiece" was invented by John B. Stetson. He was the son of a Philadelphia hat-making family and suffered from tuberculosis, an occupational disease of hat-makers. Forced to travel west for his health he was on a Pike's Peak camping expedition when the need for a hat arose.
• XIT was on cutting edge of ranching 8-12-08
• There were rules in good-old days, too 8-5-08
• Deadly trail tamed by fort's installation 7-29-08
• Old West accounts often fabrications 7-24-08
• Vigilantes were the law in frontier towns 7-14-08
• Technology replacing old ranching ways 7-10-08
• Fresh beef top concern for settlers 7-1-08
• more

Clay Coppedge Twice a month
"Letters from Central Texas" columns >
• Little One-Hearted Stock Tank 8-12-08
This is a glimpse of what 20th Century American literature might look like if Ernest Hemingway had grown up on the south plains of Texas instead of the Michigan woods...
• With A Pit Bull On My Knee 7-24-08
• The Unholy Catfish 7-10-08
• more

Bill Cherry Monthly
"Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories" columns >
• Churches Have Been Doing Their Best to Mask Financial Troubles 8-3-08
Many find it troubling to drive by their city's old churches, some ornate and opulent, others designed and built to be clean, pristine and sturdy, and to realize that for years those buildings have been decaying... Many have been on their corners for more than 100 years...
• more

Linda-Kirkpatrick Monthly
"Somewhere in the West" columns >
• Johanna Domodora of South Texas 8-18-08
Out of the PWA the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was born. Thanks to the WPA and the monies paid to writers, we now have a collection of interviews of people whose stories would have been lost in history. Florence Angermiller's interview with Johanna July of Brackettville, Texas is a story that I have read over and over...
• Mary Ann Goodnight and the Texas State Bison Herd 7-11-08
• more

HUMOR & OPINION COLUMNS

Maggie Van Ostrand National Syndicated Columnist
"A Balloon in Cactus" columns >
• La Llorona: Does She Seek Your Children? 8-10-08
Many versions of the tragedy of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise is the same...
• What You Don't Know About Mexico 7-17-08
• The Story of Indianola 6-30-08
• more

Peary Perry Weekly. Syndicated in 80 newspapers
"Letters from North America" columns >
• Medicare Fraud 8-13-08
Last month I read a report that stated that the good old US government had paid out more than ninety two million of our hard earned dollars to Medicare fraud. It seems so called medical suppliers have been billing the government for wheelchairs and other pieces of home equipment for people who had already died. Not only had the patients died, but so had a large number of doctors who had originally prescribed whatever was needed...
• Are You Ready for the Country? 8-6-08
• Energy Policy 7-30-08
• Being Parents 7-24-08
• A Letter to Her Majesty 7-17-08
• Ghost Voting 7-10-08
• Dumbing Down of America 7-3-08
• more

Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything" columns >
• Ten Gazillion Dollars! 7-3-08
The internet has been around for a long time now. I mean, not very long if you are comparing it to a tree or a rock or a star, but in the time frame of computer technology the internet has been around for a long, long time. As it has evolved, so too have evolved internet based or supported crimes...
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Gael Montana
"The View from Under the Bus" columns >
• Investing in Our Boomer Selves 5-26-08
• more

MEMOIRS

N. Ray Maxie Ark-La-Tex Monthly
"Rambling Ray" columns >
• A Serious View of Important Things 8-1-08
Three friends debating which "modern day" home improvement had the most significance in their lives...
• "Watermelons Fresh and Fine. Watermelons Right off the Vine." 7-3-08
• more

Editor & Guests

"They shoe horses, don't they?"
• Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Mel Brown 6-26-08
• El Paso’s Beautiful People: 1921-1946 6-5-08
Photographer Alfonso Casasola and The Casasola Photo Collection

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Dorothy Hamm Monthly Columns
"Words and Music" Columns >

Archived Columns:
George Lester "Spunky Flat and Beyond"

John Gosselink "Stumbling Forward" Smithville Times

Louise George "History by George" columns

"If you've heard this one before, dont' stop me,
because I want to hear it again."
- Waco Historian Roger Norman Conger

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