Category Archives: Historical tidbits

The Tax Man Cometh

Posted on January 3, 2018 by admin

The details of the new 2018 Tax Law have been published.  Accountants, attorneys, businessmen, and everyone fearing the worse read them over the past weekend.  Yet even though the actual law doesn’t take effect until January 1, 2018 Americans are … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

Newspapers Can Be Quite Chatty at Times

Posted on December 31, 2017 by admin

Americans have read newspapers since colonial times. Early in our history, local newspapers carried news from afar. There was no reason to print local news. Everybody knew what happened there. By the middle of the 19th century, newspapers were more … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

Silent Night

Posted on December 24, 2017 by admin

This post was originally published on December 21, 2014 but its relevancy is still important today. Christmas 1917 was the first for the American Expeditionary Forces in the war. No soccer games or shared gifts, just the same fear and … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical tidbits, Recommended Reading | 1 Comment

Wandering Across the Country on a Troop Train

Posted on December 17, 2017 by admin

  The Second German Reich mapped out what was supposed to be the perfect war before the German Army even moved across Belgium with the intent of invading France. Espionage plans included installing spies, Union strikers, and propagandists in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

A Peculiar Discovery on the Courthouse Square

Posted on December 10, 2017 by admin

  This past week we honored those who died seventy-six years ago during the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor.  At least two men from Hunt County lost their lives in the raid.  Several others from this area experienced the … Continue reading →

Posted in Greenville, Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

The Conundrum of 1900

Posted on December 3, 2017 by admin

W. Walworth Harrison and his mother Mrs. Will N. Harrison probably were the first historians in Hunt County. Mr. Harrison loved newspapers, especially the three local papers, and frequently made notes on pages or copied the highlights and filed them … Continue reading →

Posted in Greenville, Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

The World Will Never Be the Same

Posted on November 27, 2017 by admin

Agriculturist and politician Gifford Pinchot, writing in 1917, noted that “the world will never be the same” after the destruction of lives and lands during the Great War (1914-1918). While separated by the Atlantic Ocean and determined to remain neutral, … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical tidbits | Leave a comment

Caring for Abandoned Cemeteries

Posted on November 18, 2017 by admin

One morning in 1862 fifty-seven year old Confederate sympathizer Arthur Matthews was called out of his home near Warsaw, Missouri. A group of Unionist led him down the road where they executed him and left his body in the road. … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Historical tidbits, North Texas History | Leave a comment

Farming is Not for the Fainthearted

Posted on November 12, 2017 by admin

Slowly but surely manufacturing and technology have overcome and then rapidly passed other industries, including agriculture. But we can never ignore the importance of the farmer and his workers. They still battle many of the same problems they faced at … Continue reading →

Posted in Greenville, Historical tidbits, North Texas History | 1 Comment

Russian Germans Come to Texas

Posted on November 8, 2017 by admin

Russian Germans are also known as Volga Germans, but what in the world do they have to do with anything I write about? Well, they are terribly interesting and some ended up in numerous little villages in North Texas. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical tidbits, North Texas History | Leave a comment