Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant
Above photo, the secret Cold War military lab at Lone Star was the first to use a side door that
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Gunfight at Naples saloon
By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Naples, Texas – It was December 3,1898, sometime just after dark. The saloons along Front
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Frontier history spans 180 years on Daphne Prairie
Daphne Prairie From the East Texas Journal, August 1994 In 1767, a French explorer who traveled the Cherokee Trace from
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Longview Yacht Club
Longview Yacht Club From the East Texas Journal, January 2015 Lake O The Pines, Texas – The son has become
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Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop
Big Earl’s, From the East Texas Journal, May 2015 Pittsburg, Texas – Saturday nights, they took orders for étouffée in the
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Reconnaissance flight put pilot over Normandy
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 edition CHERBOURG, France – A month before D-Day, Tom Connor’s plane ripped through
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Indian fights, outlaws and lynching are Cason, Texas frontier legacy
From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Conventional wisdom is that the first child born in
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Julius Daniel “Kinky” Bohannon and escapees storm prison walls of McAlester Oklahoma State Penitentiary
July 2, on a hot afternoon in 1934 the newspapers said the cops were hot on heels of the robbers
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Long family roots dig into Mt. Vernon history
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Jean Pamplin MT. VERNON, TEXAS – 1875, a battle waged in newly
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Memoirs of Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers of Mt. Pleasant
Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers From East Texas Journal / Lynch Harper Files I was born where the North Jefferson church
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