Radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Turn on, tune in, drop by. It’s not too late to get your name on
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East Texas History
King family found momentary respite from war in 19th century Titus County
John Henry King remembered the soldiers passing by his home at Boggy Creek in eastern Titus County on their way
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P. D. Thornton, Sr
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with P. D. Thornton, Sr. in 1979. I
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1959 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher CLARKSVILLE – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he went to the barbershop
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Jodie King – Tuskegee educated cotton mill worker, ship builder, surveyor, bootlegger and gambler
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Jodie King in 1979 JODIE KING
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Dellwood’s mineral spring’s lured bottling firm, resort
Some of the names are lost, like mists burned away in morning sun. Peterman, Wolfe . . . Others have
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Fabled muralist’s work found in storeroom
An Austrian Jew fleeing the Holocaust in 1938 wound up teaching art in a black trade school in North Carolina.
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Archived CCC photo pegs location of Depression-era work camp on Edwards
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2019 Edition. Ed’s note: Sam Ferguson researched and compiled 1930’s news records for
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Salvage milks the most from the work of a forgotten builder
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2020 Edition BRIDGES CHAPEL, TEXAS — When Lisa Garrison-Toland was a girl, “Grandma”
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Flora & fauna on Daphne Prairie draw diverse life forms to Franklin County
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2016 Edition By HUDSON OLD East Texas Journal DAPHNE PRAIRIE – An artist,
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