Archives

Daingerfield resident changed course of American history in 1964 election

Daingerfield resident changed course of American history in 1964 election

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal July 2016 Edition. MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – In the November 25, 1964 Mt. Pleasant...
Read More
Steel company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

Steel company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2013 Edition. Ed’s note: An ex-Marine who got into Texas politics following World...
Read More
Developer plans new view on Tankersley

Developer plans new view on Tankersley

Business Featured
MT. PLEASANT, Texas – A mother with two children in the military and a high school senior in a 700-horse...
Read More
Moonshine provided escape from poverty for Titus County whisky runner on the Back Roads to Dallas

Moonshine provided escape from poverty for Titus County whisky runner on the Back Roads to Dallas

East Texas History Featured
Article reprinted from the East Texas Journal January, 2016 Edition. Back Roads to Dallas is now at the Mt. Pleasant...
Read More
A million lights and carriage rides anchor Boots & Bells holiday season

A million lights and carriage rides anchor Boots & Bells holiday season

Entertainment Featured
When the Majestic Christmas Company tested them, strings of lights hanging every foot along every facet of the three layer-cake...
Read More
Theories differ on strange geology at Jakes Creek

Theories differ on strange geology at Jakes Creek

East Texas History Featured
From the East Texas Journal August 2011 MONTICELLO, TEXAS – The thing had occupied his mind again, so Oscar Hill...
Read More
Local homemakers develop world-class, creekside ceramics

Local homemakers develop world-class, creekside ceramics

East Texas History Features
Before Columbus, cutting edge Caddo homemakers here perfected ceramic dinnerware while the average European was still eating off wooden slabs....
Read More
Fossil found on Sulphur emerges from dream

Fossil found on Sulphur emerges from dream

Bankhead Featured
By Jolene Reed special to the Journal Jolene Reed Free-lance Writer SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – Twenty-one years ago, Hampton House...
Read More
West Side woman’s got it figured out

West Side woman’s got it figured out

East Texas History Featured
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Time was, Betty Smith worked in cotton fields to make money for school clothes. Jerry...
Read More
Councilman unloads at City Hall

Councilman unloads at City Hall

Featured Mount Pleasant
You young people are free to skip this story and go to the city of Mt. Pleasant on You Tube,...
Read More
Pittsburg by Candlelight

Pittsburg by Candlelight

Pittsburg
PITTSBURG – There's a three-hour window to travel a trail leading into a script turning places to chapters of the...
Read More
Different drummers play the family beat

Different drummers play the family beat

Featured
Headed home from California, high on life and low on cash, when the Honda that crossed the Mohave played out...
Read More
Ballot puts roads on trial in Titus County

Ballot puts roads on trial in Titus County

Mount Pleasant Uncategorized
The Pope's a Catholic, there are trees in the forest and three out of four Titus County Commissioners oppose the...
Read More
World War II through the lens of a surgeon with a camera.

World War II through the lens of a surgeon with a camera.

East Texas History Features
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher MT. VERNON – Listen: “I remember moments disconnected from the larger picture of the war,”...
Read More
Welsh Delivers Record Bass at a Bad Moment to Remember what he Forgot

Welsh Delivers Record Bass at a Bad Moment to Remember what he Forgot

Featured Features
Not long after the Welsh Lake dam flooded Swaunano bottom, Bill Ocker reeled in the biggest bass ever landed in...
Read More
1 4 5 6 7 8 9

error: