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This week we honor veterans – and they can never be honored enough. Please take the time to read the following by Jerry Cianciolo . . .
Read moreI had a lot of company last weekend. A lot of family from across the plain gathered at my house to celebrate the life of my late sister-inlaw, Freda Harry. Freda passed away recently in a Dallas Care Center and remains will be interred in Allen Cemetery at a later date. We loved and we all will surely miss this remarkable lady. Freda’s obituary was published in last week’s Advocate.
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My friend Charles Biggs of the Tulsa Beacon wrote the following. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Last Saturday morning, some of you may have noticed a few of our locals looking worse than normal. We understand that they had been turned into zombies. Hopefully, whoever cast the spell will bring them back to normal this week.
Read moreMy mother sometimes got onto me for daydreaming so much. I had a teacher or two over at Stonewall that agreed with her too. She always admonished me to quit my daydreaming. As though one could. Like most people I think I was meant to travel. Go places. Someplace where they speak different languages. Dress funny. Eat weird foods. Places so far away you might need to get on an airplane or a ship to get there. But to get on an airplane means going through x-rays, being patted down. Getting a passport. Well sure. Pat and I, being the forever optimists, renewed our passports some time back. I guess we did want to be squeezed into an uncomfortable seat and be hurtled at speeds at nearly the speed of sound to one of these strange places.
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It will be Halloween in a few days, and we found some interesting items about this annual event . . .
Read moreSometimes this old Shakespearean quote applies to us. It sure did to people in Allen in 1938—a tough year for people here in Mustang land. I know it was for the Bullard’s. The business dad worked at in Allen was shuttered and gone. Whipped away by the dusty winds of the Great Depression. Finally, he found a job in Centrahoma. My brother Gerald said, “It had to be the poorest place I’ve ever seen.”
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Quote of the week—“More people now depend on the government than once
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