Farmers sons marched to war
February 17, 2026
Business, banking and baseball back when
February 13, 2026
Coach Parker shaped community, Congressman says
February 10, 2026
Coffee Culture
February 2, 2026
Texas Milk plant dominated city skyline when Mt. Pleasant, Texas launched plan to save family farms
January 9, 2026
Fact or fiction: century old government study probed practice of water witching
January 6, 2026
Speeding whiskey runner loses 100 mph high speed chase in Northeast Texas
January 2, 2026
Judge brushed with bootleggers and Dixie Mafia in East Texas
December 30, 2025
A Penny for Your Thoughts?
December 17, 2025
Mustang in grueling 2,000-mile La Carrera Panamericana race through Mexico
December 16, 2025
Hughes Springs, Texas native Dr. Marion ‘Pepper’ Jenkins
December 2, 2025
Gum chewing mule enjoys visitors, musician’s intelligent conversation
November 26, 2025
Made in the Shade Boutique, There’s a place like this somewhere west of Mars
Cajun immigrant adds Atchafalaya holiday tradition to home at Nelta, Texas
November 18, 2025
Local railway’s lasting legacy lives on
November 4, 2025
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Above photo, meat wasn’t a staple when Alfred Cox was one of 13 children growing up on Titus County tenant...
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Above photo, Morris Rolston, Marvin Coffee and Bugs Cross played for the Mt. Pleasant Cubs, a sandlot semipro baseball club...
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Above photo, World War II interrupted the coaching career Sam Parker resumed in 1946 when he came home to...
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Above photo, the helicopter atop Huey’s Coffee made Joe Dalby’s one-time Mt. Pleasant Studebaker dealership a U.S. 67 a landmark...
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From East Texas Journal, February 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS -- The town's business community depended on...
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From The East Texas Journal, January 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher So it’s the Sunday morning gathering of the tribe,...
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Above photo, if you can figure out why an outlaw bent on slipping through Texas with an illegal load of...
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From The Eat Texas Journal By Hudson Old, Publisher They worked the same arena. They knew the same players, on...
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By Mark LeeSpecial to the Journal The watchword in politics these days (at least this week) is affordability. What screams...
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Above Photo, crowds welcoming racers packed the streets of towns along the 2,000-mile route of the La Carrera Panamericana race....
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Above photo, Dr. Marion ‘Pepper’ Jenkins and nurses administering a crystalloid solution at Parkland Memorial Hospital of Dallas around 1960....
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From The East Texas Journal, July 2008 By Hudson Old, Publisher His Gum chewing mule’s name is Mousy Bluefoot...
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Above Photo, a natural non-conformist, Angie Hudson brings a counter-culture twist to the ante-bellum capital of Texas. JEFFERSON, TEXAS -- I...
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From The East Texas Journal, December 2013 EditiBy Hudson Old, Publisher NELTA,TEXAS –Back on the Atchafalaya, Louisiana, the Gremillion family...
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Above photo, at over 100 years old, Engine 316 is still in active service on the Texas State Railroad line....
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