P. D. Thornton, Sr
November 21, 2022
The last time the circus came to town
October 31, 2022
1959 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene
Jodie King – Tuskegee educated cotton mill worker, ship builder, surveyor, bootlegger and gambler
October 5, 2022
Dellwood’s mineral spring’s lured bottling firm, resort
August 17, 2022
Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity
July 25, 2022
Fabled muralist’s work found in storeroom
July 7, 2022
Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy
June 10, 2022
First recipient makes most of scholarship
April 19, 2022
Café closing changes community rhythm
September 23, 2021
Turn out the lights, the mining’s over
July 2, 2021
There’s more than another rodeo in the plan
June 17, 2021
1st Street Longhorns anchor Scenic Spring Cattle Drive
June 16, 2021
Worker program reels in mobile homeless
May 6, 2021
Show Booked at Whatley
April 16, 2021
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Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with P. D. Thornton, Sr. in 1979. I...
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From the archives February 2019 Kristin the Komet shot out of California, sailed four years through the U.S. Air Force,...
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By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher CLARKSVILLE – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he went to the barbershop...
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Special to the Journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Jodie King in 1979 JODIE KING...
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Some of the names are lost, like mists burned away in morning sun. Peterman, Wolfe . . . Others have...
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GILMER, TEXAS – The dealer who’d contracted to deliver 90 new trucks last year called for a lunch meeting to...
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An Austrian Jew fleeing the Holocaust in 1938 wound up teaching art in a black trade school in North Carolina....
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DeKalb, Texas -- There’s a mastodon vertebra found by a man from Naples next to the hand-cranked Japanese air raid...
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Photo above, Sue Barker, left, with APL’s Taylor Muller and Mt. Vernon graduate Rhealyn Reagan, a recipient of the Cole...
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NAPLES, TEXAS - Opening at 6 a.m., Nett’s Restaurant was a six-day-a-week operation, a part of the rhythm of the...
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Reprinted from January 2018 East Texas Journal MONTICELLO, TX – Okay, show’s over. Dallas-based Luminant’s turned out the lights on...
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Ticket sales registered somewhere between 4,500 and 5,000 at the 57th annual rodeo that almost wasn’t. “In the summer of...
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Reprinted from the March 2019 East Texas Journal Edition When the vet couldn't save his bull, Longhorn market conditions minimized...
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Paired with a blonde in their quest for golf courses near towns with a softball league, before they rode off...
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If the guy who toured with Mouse and the Trapps in the 60’s playing bass behind Debbie Porter’s dulcimer with...
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