This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 24, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Although the old saying, “Clothes make the man,” has some truth to it, clothing trends change rather frequently, and, every decade or so, rather drastically. A case in point is the T-shirt, which in my […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 17, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Cow’s milk was a really important commodity in the 1940’s in the small Lee County town where I grew up, and elsewhere in Texas. My parents owned two milk cows which provided us with enough
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As American As Pickled Onions? This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 10, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Sunday I pickled two more jars of onions, making a total of seven or eight jars since I began “pickling” about a month ago. I couldn’t find my mother’s recipe box,
This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 3, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Ever since I’ve had a little arthritis in my left knee, I have had a tendency to discuss and share home remedies with other folks my age having similar problems. Although most of the “remedies” don’t
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