This article by Ray Spitzenberger appeared first in IMAGES for August 19, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. As is true of so many other annual festivals and celebrations this year, the Wendish Fest in Serbin, Texas, is ON after lying dormant during the height of COVID. A longtime member of the Texas […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 12, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Although the flute or “pipe” has been played since the beginning of humankind, I never found favor with it, — in fact, hardly paid attention to it, — until recently. Years ago, when I
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 5, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Every Monday I am “in a pickle.” I am faced with the challenge of generating a topic for my weekly newspaper column. Some tell me finding a topic shouldn’t be so difficult considering the extraordinary,
This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for July 29, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. I learned to do the Herr Schmidt as soon as I learned to walk! The Herr Schmidt was to polka fans in the 1940’s what the Chicken Dance is to many polka dance fans today.
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger appeared first in IMAGES for July 22, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. One of the striking features about school pictures of my brother and me when we attended Dime Box Rural School was that we were wearing bib overalls. Usually made of blue or blue-striped denim, “bib
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for July 15, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. This past weekend, my wife made her annual visit to the Wallis Arts and Craft Show, sponsored by the Wallis American Legion Post 200. It’s their 18th Annual Show, so she has been to quite
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for July 8, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. “Whap! Whap! Whap-whap!” The sound of dominoes slapped on the table echoed throughout the room! These “42” players took their game very seriously, and it showed in the passionate way they played the game. The game
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for July 1, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Although 74 million Americans celebrate the Fourth of July with a backyard barbecue, my wife and I have usually followed what we consider a long held American tradition of having hot dogs on Independence Day.
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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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