This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 26, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. By now, everybody has read about or watched on one of the news channels the poignant story about the little saw-whet owl that was found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after the bright-eyed, feathered […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 19, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. A few days ago, one of my granddaughters came by the house and told me I looked cool, because I had a “mullet” haircut! “What’s that?” I asked. After she explained the trendy
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 12, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Probably the closest thing I have ever seen to a real stagecoach was the horse-driven funeral hearse, still owned and preserved by Knesnek’s funeral Home in Wallis. It seemed to be modeled after a 19th
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 5, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. German-speaking people immigrated from Germany to Texas in large numbers in the 1800’s. In Wharton County, not quite as many, but there were enough German-Texans in Lissie, Texas, to start a German-language Lutheran church in
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 29, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Neither my parents nor I were ever rich enough to buy a new car every three or four years like some of our friends would do. We always bought “second-hand” cars (as they were called
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