Lead Belly’s Texas Roots: The DeKalb Story of Huddie Ledbetter
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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Chris Smith: East Texas Stuntman Returns to Theme Park Action
From The East Texas Journal, January 1998 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher Chris Smith Stuntman Career Begins on East Texas
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Tom Ramsay’s Unexpected Link to Ima Hogg Through Franklin County History
Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor
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From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson
Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James
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Gidget the Feral Hog Finds a Home in Mt. Pleasant
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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Phone book delivery ends with ambulance ride
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 and the Omaha Museum Preserve East Texas History
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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Hungarian Rotary Exchange Student Offers East Texans a Lesson in Freedom
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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Mt. Pleasant Couple Followed Their Faith to Post-Communist Albania
Above Photo: Mike and Ellen Holman serve as missionaries in a God-forsaken land. From East Texas Journal, February
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Mechanical Phonographs Brought Music Home
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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