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
Gidget the Feral Hog Finds a Home in Mt. Pleasant
June 9, 2026
Phone book delivery ends with ambulance ride
June 4, 2026
Charlie Jack and the Omaha Museum Preserve East Texas History
June 3, 2026
Hungarian Rotary Exchange Student Offers East Texans a Lesson in Freedom
June 2, 2026
Mt. Pleasant Couple Followed Their Faith to Post-Communist Albania
May 29, 2026
Mechanical Phonographs Brought Music Home
May 27, 2026
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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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Above Photo: Tonya Freeman with Gidget, a feral hog she’s raising on a baby’s bottle. January 1998 ETJ Story Revised...
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Above Photo: NUMBER PLEASE-soon you will be able to call anyone in the- greater Titus, Camp, Franklin, Morris counties area....
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Charlie Jack Keeps Omaha's History Alive at the Museum From the East Texas Journal, July 2022 By Hudson Old OMAHA,...
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Above Photo: Balazs "Bali" Kiss, a Rotary exchange student from Hungary, spent the 1994–95 school year in Mt. Vernon, experiencing...
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Above Photo: Mike and Ellen Holman serve as missionaries in a God-forsaken land. From East Texas Journal, February...
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Above Photo: David Hoover shows some of his turn-of-the-century mechanical phonographs. They work. Originally published in The East Texas...
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