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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East Texas History
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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Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal January 2019 Edition. COOKVILLE, TEXAS – With World War I in full swing, Earl
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Was Titus County-born Mac Wallace the second gunman in the JFK assassination?
Reprinted from the May 2012 East Texas Journal By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher PITTSBURG, TEXAS– Her following of threads of
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