Sweet Shop USA Sets Guinness World Record in Mt. Pleasant, Texas
September 18, 2026
Hagansport, Texas History: 10,000 Years Along the Sulphur River
September 2, 2026
Pat Tomberlain: A Life Rooted in East Texas History
August 26, 2026
Richard Clark Brought Feathered Friends and Reptiles to Mt. Pleasant Ect. Mall
August 18, 2026
1995 Mt. Pleasant Tigers Baseball: The Team That Learned to Hold the Rope
August 14, 2026
Earl Don Sweeney Visits Taqueria Miramar: Real Mexican Food!
August 7, 2026
Ghost sign appears on town’s main street
August 4, 2026
Bull Durham shares space with Holman and Hall
August 4, 2026
Earl Don Sweeney Visits Vinyard’s Foods: An International Food Adventure in Mt. Pleasant
August 4, 2026
Underworld relaxed at Do Drop Inn
July 31, 2026
First vision of coal riches vanished at Nodena
July 21, 2026
Lead Belly’s Texas Roots: The DeKalb Story of Huddie Ledbetter
July 14, 2026
Chris Smith: East Texas Stuntman Returns to Theme Park Action
July 10, 2026
Tom Ramsay’s Unexpected Link to Ima Hogg Through Franklin County History
June 23, 2026
From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson
June 17, 2026
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From The East Texas Journal, April 2017 By Hudson Old, Publisher The battle is won, the revolution complete. Surrender of...
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From The East Texas Journal, March 2017 By Hudson Old, Publisher Consider the odds of a stone age ax winding...
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Above Photo: A teacher, Pat Tomberlain insists that history matters, not as nostalgia, but as instruction. From The East Texas...
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From The East Texas Journal, June 1995 MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS - If your elementary schooler's been loose downtown for any...
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Above Photo: The Conroy family's been tractor mechanics for as far back as most of Titus County can recall, but...
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Above Photo: The staff of Taqueria Miramar reacts as Earl Don Sweeney says in Spanish, for the first time, "Okay...
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PITTSBURG – Don’t hold your breath waiting for the arrival of the mob. There’s a narrow niche of Bull Durham...
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With construction of their new downtown location completed in 1893, Holman and Hall opened selling hardware, furniture, wagons and buggies,...
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Above Photo: Vinyard’s Foods checker Barbara McNeil, from England, adds to the store’s international flavor. From The East Texas...
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Above Photo: Do Drop Inn advertisement from December 24, 1941, MP Daily Times. From The East Texas Journal, July 2026...
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Above Photo: A German immigrant gambled and lost his Star Bakery (at left) betting on the firstcommercial attempt to mine...
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Above Photo: Joni Haldeman provided research documenting Lead Belly Ledbetter’s work as a sharecropper on the lamb, living under an...
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From The East Texas Journal, January 1998 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher Chris Smith Stuntman Career Begins on East Texas...
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Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor...
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Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James...
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