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North America » United States » Texas » Sherman December 23rd 2022

(Sally writes) Finally. We got let out of jail. The problem with Betty, the travel van, was not easy to solve.We wondered "Will we never leave the Millennium Hotel?" Too many hours in a darkish hotel room. Too little nourishing food. And, I fell ill with what I am going to call a head cold. I haven't been sick in Montana EXCEPT when returning from visiting the East Coast. Sick again, on the way home, in a hotel room, waiting anxiously, helplessly, for the mechanic to find and fix the problem with the van. We needed that to happen to get ahead of the BIG STORM. And I get sick. And, with all of the shifting around over the last week, I've lost the my magical natural desiccated thyroid. I take a very tiny dose, and ... read more

North America » United States » Texas » Sherman March 22nd 2020

THE GOOD FOLKS OF GRAYSON COUNTY The county seat of Grayson County is in Sherman, Texas. It was a prosperous agricultural community in a cotton growing region. After WWI ended cotton prices began to falter as cotton supplies exceeded demand. Throughout the 1920s the cotton market failed to recover and the sharecroppers and tenant farmers became impoverished. In 1929 the Great Depression began and soon the banks failed too and nobody had any money. The good folks of Grayson County became desperate. In April of 1930 a half- witted black farmer named George Hughes and his common law wife drifted into the area and George found work with a fellow named Drew Farlow who lived about 4 miles from Sherman along Choctaw Creek. On the morning of May 3, George dropped by to pick up six ... read more
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