February 2021

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for February 11, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             Music had always been very important to my mother’s Wendish family for generations, so naturally an almost reverence for it continued into my lifetime. Born in Dime Box, Texas, I first encountered the pump organ […]

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for February 4, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             It’s hard to believe that East Bernard, Texas, was incorporated twenty years ago! Of course, that would not impress a resident of Wharton, Texas, as their town (small city) was incorporated 118 years ago. I

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for January 28, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             Growing up in the small, rural Texas town of Dime Box, we didn’t have many of the “amenities” found in larger towns and cities that were available in the 1940’s, such as fine restaurants and