Historian Traces Elvis to Mt. Pleasant performance in December, 1954
Reissued story from East Texas Journal December, 2015. MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS- In a 1996 Journal interview tracked down in 2006
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East Texas History
1854 news account describes Peter Ringo family as ‘passionate, domineering and dangerous’
HAGANSPORT, TEXAS – As the crow flies, this is the closest town to the place just downstream of the confluence
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Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion
By Hudson old Journal publisher John Riley Ellis He was Jose Wales and John Wayne rolled into one, said Roger
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Winston Ward radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Turn on, tune in, drop by. It’s not too late to get your name on
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John Henry King family found momentary respite from war in 19th century Titus County
John Henry King remembered the soldiers passing by his home at Boggy Creek in eastern Titus County on their way
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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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1959 Home From the Hill movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene
Home From the Hill By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he
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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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John Biggers fabled muralist’s work found in Texas 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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