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Texas
Oral Histories
- Living History
While on the road
we met people with fascinating tales of their hometown. The stories
that no one now has time to hear. The need to record these stories
is of the utmost urgency. When the storytellers are gone, they take
their stories with them.
Like "Bones"
Fieldler in Harper, Texas says:
"When they die, it's like a little town encyclopedia dies too."
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Martinets
Photo Studio, Granger, Texas
Courtesy Dan Martinets. |
Loel
Dene "L.D." Cox, Seaman First Class - U.S.S. Indianapolis
L.D. Cox's narrative of the sinking of the U.S.S.Indianapolis
Reprinted with permission from The Lone Star Gazette, Dublin,
Texas, Laura Kestner, Publisher/Editor
The heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis, was torpedoed in the
final few days of the war. It was on its return trip from delivering
the first atomic bomb to the air base at Tinian Island for delivery
to Hiroshima...... It remains the most horrific incident of a war
filled with horror. Seaman First Class Cox was on the bridge when
the torpedoes struck. He was one of only 317 survivors from the
ship's crew of 1,197.
Two
Pilots, Three Air Forces, One Hometown:
Lt. Col. Alvin
Mueller & Lieutenant Dick Campbell
Sheriff
Fenton of Coleman County and His Larger Than Life Wife
Reader's Comment: ... I just wish I had been born a little earlier
and had the good fortune to get caught stealing chickens or running
whiskey through Coleman County. Who knows what good fortune I might
enjoy today as the result of helping a youngster feed his pigeons
on the jail roof. - PJH
The
Fayetteville Photographer and His Sculptor Daughter
William and Waldine Tauch
The
Tailor and the Hideaway Bride:
The
man who kept his wife in stitches
The
Double Murder in Granger, 1934
Polly
want a Galleta?
"Eloise"
in Texas - When you outgrow one lobby, move to another hotel
Torn
Between Two Cowboys in Moulton Texas - Being
Tossed on the Horns of a Dilemma can be as Painful as being Drawn
and Quartered
A
Haunted Hotel - Schulenburg's
Heartbreak Hotel, The
Uninvited at the Von Minden
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