Train Wrecks!

By |2018-09-04T01:28:41+00:00September 4th, 2018|Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, East Texas, historic food, innovations, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains|

Train wrecks is both literal and metaphorical.  Metaphorical train wreck: I slid off the rails with buying and rehabbing a new house, letting [...]

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More Cockrell Family

By |2018-02-05T02:24:36+00:00February 5th, 2018|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, Men, Murders, Slavery, Texans, West End, Women|

My previous post was about Sarah Horton Cockrell, capitalist.  What type of man attracts a powerful woman’s eye?  It is said that Sarah’s [...]

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All the Roberts, Part III

By |2018-01-21T18:31:38+00:00January 19th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery, Uncategorized|

Our story of Shack Roberts, freed slave/politician/minister/blacksmith/founder of Wiley College continues. Running as a Republican (which was the liberal party at the time), [...]

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All the Roberts, Part II

By |2018-01-21T18:32:38+00:00January 17th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|

My last post included Roberts, TX, a small town 17 miles from Greenville and a mysterious death that involved a man 'falling from [...]

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All the Roberts

By |2018-01-21T18:33:21+00:00January 15th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|

Mysterious Death GREENVILLE, TEX., May 22 [1893] – News reached here to-night of the mysterious death of Tom Wallace, in the vicinity of [...]

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Giving of the Thanks – Part IV, the Soup Course

By |2018-01-21T18:42:06+00:00December 6th, 2017|art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Dogs, East Texas, karaoke, White Rock Lake|

Not gonna lie. Life has been crazy lately and I wrote this for a completely different application. But, as soup is utilitarian, and [...]

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