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An East Texas writer remembers a country newspaperman
An East Texas writer remembers a country newspaperman
By Joe Holley
CIRCLEVILLE - Let's say you're a traveling salesman in the late 1940s, and your territory covers much of Texas. Maybe you're a manufacturer's rep for lines of hardware, maybe pharmaceuticals or piece ... -
Brann's is a tale of satire and gunfire
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Joe Holley looks back at the oldest town in Texas
Child in 1836 endured, prevailed after Runaway Scrape
Before 2017, our year of the flood, passes into history, I wanted to re-introduce an early-day Houstonian who endured her own flood-ravaged year. Dilue Rose Harris, an 11-year-old who experienced the ...
San Antonio writer conjures up Santa's helper on the border
SAN ANTONIO - A week or so before Christmas many years ago, 7-year-old Xavier Garza was standing in line with his dad at the Valley Mart in Rio Grande City, waiting for his annual audience with Santa ...
An early Tejano leader speaks to young Mexican-Americans today
SAN ANTONIO - "We're so far from the Alamo and Ripley's Believe It or Not that we're off the beaten path," Emiliano Calderon was telling me on a warm afternoon this week. Calderon, site educator at the ...
Holley, Brown: The grit of 'Hometown Texas'
The Texas that most Americans know from the headlines, the magazine stories and the movies is not necessarily the Lone Star State that Peter Brown and I know. As a photographer and a writer, we find our ...
'The Rambling Boy' finds a home in old Fort Davis
FORT DAVIS - For Lonn Taylor, a most interesting resident of one of the most interesting small towns in Texas, life could have been so very different. In the late 1960s, he married a woman who was heiress ...
Prairie View pianist got his start in a small Texas town
PRAIRIE VIEW – Driving to Cameron a couple of weeks ago, the little town southeast of Waco that had the audacity - with native-son Drayton McLane's encouragement - to make a bid for Amazon's second ...
Sutherland Springs residents hope tragedy doesn't define their town
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS - Like most Texans who don't live in Wilson County, I had never heard of this little town east of San Antonio until horrific tragedy struck Sunday morning a week ago. Finishing up at the ...
Bob Holley and fellow WW II vets are quickly passing from our midst
When my cousin Bob Holley died at age 96 a few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. All of us who knew him lost a good man. Beyond the personal loss, his passing was a reminder that we're all saying goodbye to ...
Characters abound in Texas writer's family history
AUSTIN - "I never expected to be a professional Texan, one of those writers who wear the lone star like a brand, who play up the drawl and affect pointy boots or a cowboy hat with a tailored suit," Roger ...
A rural county's advice to Amazon: Get out of town (and into the country)
CAMERON - So, who's it going to be? Austin? Atlanta? Philadelphia? Houston? Which among some 238 applicants from across the country will Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos anoint as his gargantuan company's HQ2? Moody ...




