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Pesky Animals
In the 1920s progressive Texans supported by the Federal Agricultural Department and Texas State Health Department began a campaign to eradicate rats from the state. In December 1927, Hunt County joined other Texans in a four-week campaign to kill rats. … Continue reading
Tour of Downtown and North Greenville
In 1991, Hunt County celebrated its 145th birthday. As a member of the Hunt County Historical commission, I was one who contributed maps of certain parts of the county they believed to have been significant in 1846 and still be … Continue reading
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New Year’s A-coming!
When you read this, we’ll be nearly be in a new year; a year that lots of people are looking forward to. Will we be back to “normal?” Will schools return to “in class learning” this month? What about restaurants, … Continue reading
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Santa’s Visit 100 Years Ago
“Christmas season is approaching and already the Yuletide spirit is in the air,” so wrote the Greenville Evening Banner of Friday, December 3, 1920. Local merchants placed their first offerings on display. Early indications are that an excellent offering of … Continue reading
Survivors from WWII to 9/11 find help in Halifax
Normally I write about Texas, or at least the South. This time I want to share about a trip I took a few years ago to Canada. It is so pretty, so cool in the summer, and so peaceful. At … Continue reading
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Pearl Harbor, Day of Infamy
On the morning December 7, 1941, Americans heard on the radio, at church or from someone they knew, the news of the debilitating attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii Territory. U. S. ships … Continue reading
Early Deaths No Comparison with Coronavirus
Around the middle of March this year, Americans and other residents of our planet Earth were told to “shutter down.” Something known as the Coronavirus or more commonly called COVID-19 had invaded. Soon the disease became a pandemic. The only … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving in Texas
Did you know that Texas is the only state that often celebrated Thanksgiving twice in the same year and on separate days? You know how ornery Texans can be, and for many years if Thanksgiving fell on the fourth and … Continue reading
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Horsehead Crossing
My favorite attorney in early Greenville, Alfred Thomas Howell, wrote to his brother in March 1854. Alfred had recently met a couple of speculators taking herds of cattle from different points in the East Texas to California and were trying … Continue reading
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Greenville Ghost Stories
Watch out, the goblins are coming. This time of year don’t we all love a good ghost story? Back in the far history of Greenville, when most of the activity occurred in what is now Downtown Greenville, a group of … Continue reading
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