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Posted 07.18.06 at 9:46 AMHere is an interesting photograph from the collection in Aikin Regional Archives. It was submitted by a “Mrs. Harvey,” Blossom, Texas, and notes on the back reveal that this band was organized about 1905 in Milton, Texas.
Pictured are Charley Griffith, Charley Terry, Willie King, John Hooper, Clay King, Chick Jeffus, Arthur Shuford (sic), Sam Terry, Charley Martin, Ed Hutchison, Elbert Terry, Russell Kelsey, and George Terry. George Terry is the father of Mrs. D.H. Harvey, presumed to be the donor of the picture.
Does anyone have any information about this small band or the folks posed in the picture?
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Posted 07.11.06 at 9:53 AMI came across an interesting column by Bartee Haile in the Sulphur Springs News-Telegram on June 30, 2006, titled “Phony Millionaires Spend Way into Poorhouse.” It was interesting to me because many of my relatives live in Montague County near Saint Jo, which is the next door neighbor to Muenster, the former home of Ernest and Margaret Medders, who flourished briefly in that small German community during the 60’s. I remember passing in the vicinity of their mansion and gazing wistfully in their direction when I was a more tender age. They were the talk of both Cooke and Montague Counties. Theirs is a fascinating tale, even today, and I’d no idea what had happened to them after their bubble burst; according to the article, they are living on their Social Security in Tennessee. Haile calls it a “rags-to-riches-to-rags” story.
Another article which caught my attention in the Dallas Morning News of July 10, 2006, by David Renfrow involves the recent death of Joe Edward Guthrie, who died in Bonham at age 76. An architect, Guthrie is credited with creating the North Lake College campus in Irving, Texas, and participating in the restoration of Fair Park for the 1986 Sesquicentennial, including the Hall of State and the Automobile Building and Esplanade. He also restored the Sam Rayburn Home in Bonham. Who are the unsung heroes living quietly among us today? Do you know any of them?
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Posted 06.27.06 at 9:04 AMHey, everybody. I read an interesting article on the art of porch sitting by Patti Sells in the June 10/11, 2006, edition of the Sulphur Springs News-Telegram. She features a group of old friends who for the past six years have gathered on the front porch of Jay and Barbara Brown’s two-story home for coffee and conversation.
“A great way to start the day,“ according to Pat Bell, Barbara’s sister. They even begin with a prayer and honor prayer requests. Pat says they don’t dwell on the negative or “delve into” politics or world news. A colorful picture of their sign, “Grand Central Station,“ accompanies this cheerful seasonal piece.
I recommend porch sittin’ but rarely make the acquaintance of anyone with a good porch nowadays. I grew up at 845 Graham Street, which was a huge old house with a wide porch across the front and east side. My brother still tells about my first adventure on my new tricycle. I rode it full tilt off the west end of that high porch and tumbled into the bushes.
Porch sittin’ is cool (but not in the physical sense) at our family homecomings in July. Some of my older relatives maintain a good porch.
If you want to see the Herb Marlowe paintings of historical Paris homes with real cool porches - most of them gone now - they now hang in the McLemore Student Center at Paris Junior College.
Did any of you know Herb Marlowe, the prolific painter of Paris historical scenes? If you did, please post your special memories of him and share them with all of us who are now enjoying his paintings, but missed knowing him.
Also, does anyone have a Herb Marlowe painting? I’d like to know which paintings are missing from the Archives’ collection. Did he ever paint one of Paris Junior College? Let us come and photograph these paintings so the archives will have a complete record of them.
Memories of Herb: let’s hear from you. Many Parisians knew him. He left a colorful legacy of paintings of historical Paris for us to enjoy.
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Posted 06.23.06 at 11:40 AMSend yourself back in memory or imagination to March 2, 1943.
After a hard day’s work, you’re resting at home and reading The Paris News before commencing your night time activities. It was a hard, hectic, heartbreaking, but nevertheless exciting time in Paris, Texas. We’d barely had over a year of “war” with a lot more to come. With Camp Maxey on our doorstep, living quarters for service people were especially hard to find.
I’ve heard it said that anyone who had an extra room rented it out. One of my favorite sentimental wartime movies, “Since You Went Away,“ features a wartime wife who had to rent a room in her home to make ends meet. Of course, her renter turned out to be a gruff but lovable retired colonel pressed back into service to free a younger officer for overseas duty.
My favorite ad: TWO ROOMS, furnished. Lights and gas. $30.00 per month, bills paid.
Here are some more:
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