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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Custom Commodities Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity
GILMER, TEXAS – The dealer who’d contracted to deliver 90 new trucks last year called for a lunch meeting to
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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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Williams House Museum Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy
DeKalb, Texas — There’s a mastodon vertebra found by a man from Naples next to the hand-cranked Japanese air raid
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First recipient makes most of Cole Barker Scholarship
Photo above, Sue Barker, left, with APL’s Taylor Muller and Mt. Vernon graduate Rhealyn Reagan, a recipient of the Cole
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Nett’s Restaurant closing changes community rhythm
NAPLES, TEXAS – Opening at 6 a.m., Nett’s Restaurant was a six-day-a-week operation, a part of the rhythm of the
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Luminant turn out the lights, the mining’s over
Luminant Reprinted from January 2018 East Texas Journal MONTICELLO, TX – Okay, show’s over. Dallas-based Luminant turned out the lights
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There’s more than another Mt. Pleasant Rodeo in the plan
Ticket sales registered somewhere between 4,500 and 5,000 at the 57th annual rodeo that almost wasn’t. “In the summer of
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1st Street Longhorns anchor Scenic Spring Cattle Drive
Reprinted from the March 2019 East Texas Journal Edition When the vet couldn’t save his bull, Longhorn market conditions minimized
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