Category Archives: Historical tidbits

Pandemic influenza Then and Now

Posted on July 11, 2020 by admin

History has an unusual way of repeating itself. The whole world has been involved in a dilemma called Covid-19 for months. No one knows how much longer we will be quarantined in our homes, how many loved ones will suffer … Continue reading →

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Why Truett Majors?

Posted on July 3, 2020 by admin

Several years ago, I was asked why Majors Field was not named in honor of two young men from Celeste who died at Pearl Harbor in the early morning of December 7, 1941. At the time I had no idea, … Continue reading →

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Commerce’s Early Flyboy

Posted on June 27, 2020 by admin

Economic depressions such as the one we are experiencing now have a tendency to cause mental and emotional depression as well. The depression of the 1930s was a real whopper. Big businesses tended to find ways to help destitute people … Continue reading →

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Texas Historical Commission Sites Include Caddo Mounds, Lovely Homes

Posted on June 20, 2020 by admin

Have you ever wondered what the Texas Historical Commission is? It is the Texas state entity that protects and explains our long and colorful history. Among other responsibilities the Texas Historical Commission preserves and operates 31 State Historical Sites throughout … Continue reading →

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Can’t Have One Without the Other

Posted on June 13, 2020 by admin

Texas is well-known for its Blackland Prairies, a swath of black, gummy, clay that runs like a tornado from counties adjacent to the Red River southwesterly to beyond Austin. When early settlers from Mississippi and Alabama saw the rich Eco-Region, … Continue reading →

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Lynching, Riots and Protests

Posted on June 6, 2020 by admin

What a year we have had already and it’s not even halfway over! Three events that are unbelievable have come to visit us and alter so much of our lives. We started the year with political division, an issue that … Continue reading →

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Medicine from Native Americans

Posted on June 1, 2020 by admin

Last week I wrote about natural plants that Native Americans used for diseases and wounds. This week I will focus on plants Native Americans shared with the earliest colonists. Much information was transmitted by each group to the others. Cherokee … Continue reading →

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What Would Native Americans Do About Covid-19?

Posted on May 23, 2020 by admin

As the old song goes, “Times Are A-Changing,” and now in a big way. All forms of media tell us we are moving into a different world. So, I decided to visit a completely different time, and look at medicinal … Continue reading →

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Let’s Look Back in Time

Posted on May 16, 2020 by admin

As we are in our third month of the COVID-19 virus, I thought it might be interesting to look back at times when the Great Depression was in full swing, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his staff desperately tried … Continue reading →

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A Cheerful Love Story for Dismal Times

Posted on May 9, 2020 by admin

If you have never read old newspapers, you should try one. There are many websites that share digitized old newspapers for the public to enjoy. Most however are subscriptions. The range of costs varies up to one hundred dollars per … Continue reading →

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