Monthly Archives: July 2018

Summer Days

Posted on July 29, 2018 by admin

We have been challenged for more than a week by extreme temperatures Mother Nature cast upon us. While large numbers of us have access to air-conditioning, others don’t. Then there are the persons who work out in this heat. My … Continue reading →

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Death in the 19th Century; Women and Property Laws

Posted on July 25, 2018 by admin

For more than two centuries, women in America were considered too delicate to handle finances or the burdens of business ownership under a variation of British Common Law. Close male relatives controlled property rights for women. Louisiana, Mexico, and other … Continue reading →

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Women Suffrage in Texas –Very Briefly

Posted on July 22, 2018 by admin

For a brief time women in Texas were excited, hopeful, and possibly in disbelief in the summer of 1918. For the first time ever women in Texas could vote in local and state elections! It had been a long fight, … Continue reading →

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Good Eats on the Texas Frontier

Posted on July 18, 2018 by admin

Acclaimed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted created amazing gardens in Central Park for the City of New York as well as the gardens of Biltmore House in North Carolina after the Civil War. In the early 1850s Frederick and his … Continue reading →

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Lumberyards

Posted on July 15, 2018 by admin

I’ve been working on a paper set in Jack County immediately after the Civil War. I found a wonderful article in Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women edited by Jo Ella Powell Exley. Each article told the … Continue reading →

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The Territory

Posted on July 11, 2018 by admin

Do you have any idea where the Territory was? Outlaws fled there when the law was after them. Judge Parker often called the Hanging Judge handed out verdicts to whites who broke the law. Young couples in Texas got married … Continue reading →

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Grandparents

Posted on July 8, 2018 by admin

I was especially blessed as a child. All four of my grandparents lived near my family. In addition I had two great-grandparents whom we visited often. Three of my four grandparents were great storytellers; my maternal grandmother who seldom told … Continue reading →

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No July 4th for Us

Posted on July 4, 2018 by admin

What does the Declaration of Independence of the United States mean to you? Two hundred years ago, citizens in the North had faith in the unity of the nation. To Southerners it represented independence from foreign sovereignty with the promise … Continue reading →

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Fourth of July Facts

Posted on July 1, 2018 by admin

Wednesday we celebrate the 242nd birthday of the United States of America, the day the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was signed. Actually, the document was signed on July 2, 1776. (President John Adams was a stickler for love … Continue reading →

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