 |
Total_Hits
· New Today: 4,476
· New Yesterday: 10,088
· Total: 6,559,213
Average_Hits:
· Hourly: 71
· Daily: 1,381
· Monthly: 42,046
· Yearly: 504,555
|
|
Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference
And Now You Do
|
|
2:21, For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
|
| |
Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Whenever I have any contact with banks, my reference point is always the first bank I ever knew about, The First National Bank of Kerens. This venerable financial institution stood on the west side of our main downtown street, on the north end of its block.
The inside of the bank exuded, to a young boy, a sense of seriousness and solidity. The teller cages, which stood on the south side of the building, featured steel bars all the way to the ceiling. Long tables for customer use stood along the north length of the building. Ominous black and white posters on the north wall offered rewards of $10,000 for the capture of the pictured bank robbers, dead or alive! Other signs pointed out that depositors’ money was perfectly safe, up to $100,000, because of the protection of FDIC insurance.
|
randallh writes "On Highway 287 sits the Russell Stover Candy Company which employs several hunded people in Navarro County and Corsicana, Texas, my hometown. They have regular candy and sugar free candy for people who are diabetic. They have some great tasting candy so stop by their retail store sometime. You will be glad you did."
|
|
Local News: Richland Chambers Lake a Jewel in Navarro County
|
|
randallh writes "South of Corsicana, Texas on Highway 287 sits a 46,000 acre lake. A fishermans paradise, it also has beautiful homes which sit on the north side and west side of the lake."
|
|
Foxtales: The Last Hoo Rah Rah of the Bobcat Cheerleaders of 1956
|
|
Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
My senior year was exciting for me in a lot of different ways. Looking back, I suppose it was a tiny bit frightening, too, because the closing of any door gives you butterflies in the pit of your stomach. Probably the most exciting thing I did that year was try out for cheerleader, and make it. We went to Sam Houston College in Huntsville that summer for a cheerleader school. It had also been referred to as an ‘intensive’. It didn’t take me too long to find out how that name was chosen. From day one, it felt as if I were in boot camp. Well, maybe not quite that bad. Have you ever noticed that writer’s occasionally exaggerate? lol
|
Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
There were lots of grocery stores in Kerens during the decades of the forties and fifties. I remember some of them, but probably not all--Ingrams, Jennings, Newsomes, Spurlocks, and Tramels. Newsomes was the first store on the downtown block that was farthest north, on the east side of the street, and Ingrams was about one block farther south. Spurlocks was across the street from Newsomes. Tramels and Jennings were not on the main street, but on a side street that headed east toward the water tower. Tramels, I believe, was on the block where the library now stands, only a little farther east.
|
randallh writes "In a few weeks Corsicana will celebrate its rich oil history with a Derrick Days weekend filled with fun. The bed races will be downtown and the chili cookoff will be held at Lake Halbert. That Saturday morning will be bicycle races. Come be a part of Corsicanas history and future. It will be fun with music and dancing."
|
|
randallh writes "There will be a company coming to Corsicana, Texas soon that will hire 40 people. Have not heard yet who they are but hope to hear soon."
|
Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
As I was growing from childhood to manhood in Kerens, there was only one place to spend Friday night when the KHS football team played its home games during the fall season–at Bobcat Field. I don’t know exactly when Bobcat Field was first completed and dedicated to football, but my Dad played on the same field during the 1930s, and this same field provided the hometown football arena for Kerens until the time when the Kerens and Goodlow Park schools were combined--sometime during the sixties, I am guessing, since I did not live in Kerens at the time of this historic event.
|
Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #91
Keeping Your Computer Updated
November 19th, 2001
|
|
As we move into the Christmas segment of the year, you either still have your computer from last year, or you are about to get a new one. Either way, like death and taxes and KESA Sunday Buffets, you cannot escape the inevitable pacing of technology. If by chance you do not have a computer, not going to get a computer and do not want one. . . then go ahead and pretend this is a story of science fiction and read it anyway.
|
Marshall Ainsworth, 63, of Kerens passed away Monday, February 7th, 2005 at the East Texas Medical Center in Athens.
Marshall was born May 22nd, 1941 in Rice, Texas.
Funeral Services were held February 10th at the Paschal Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Wes Johnson officiating. Burial was at the Prairie Point Cemetery.
|
Novel: The Broker
by John Grisham
|
|
Published: 2005; Pages: 357; Rating: Good
“The Broker” is a lawyer languishing in a prison somewhere when the first pages are turned. Once upon a time he had a huge office in Washington D.C. overlooking the White House and brokered deals worth megamillions. Caviar was the only thing he had for breakfast each morning. But, he tried to broker a deal that affected satellite security involving every major nation in the world and they all got mad at him. The CIA scooped him up and hid him away with a never ending sentence. He is also about fifty years old and I am wondering if that is the age of Grisham these days.
|
Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Kids who grew up on the farm started driving farm tractors at a very early age, and I was no exception. My first recollection of driving a tractor was when I was only five years old! I would sit in the tractor seat and steer the tractor while Mom and Dad pulled corn and threw it in the trailer. Driving the tractor was pretty easy because it went real slow, and it was a John Deere “Popping Johnny” with a hand clutch. The hand clutch was great because my legs were too short to reach the floor! At the end of the row, Dad would get up on the tractor and turn it around to start the next row.
|
|
Business: St. Elmos Corner Store at Richland Chambers Lake
|
|
randallh writes "A friend of mine had eaten at St. Elmos Corner Store on the west side of Richland Chambers Lake and said the catfish dinner was very good. They have all you can eat catfish for $8.95 a plate on Saturday nights. Sounds great and think I will stop on over and eat fish this Saturday."
|
|
randallh writes "I see that it should not be too long before Sirloin Stockade opens on West Seventh Avenue. They always have great food."
|
Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Indian Creek crosses Hwy 31 about one mile east of Kerens. There is no road sign identifying it, but it flows beneath the first bridge-culvert east of Kerens. This little stream actually begins its life just a few miles north of Hwy 31, then flows south through the old Norton place, along the western edge of the Vernon place, and then through the farm where our neighbor from the 1950s, Doc Fields and his family, used to live.
|
| |
 `O' LEVEL COUNTER CULTURE
Timewarp allowed: 3 hours. Do not scrawl situationalist graffiti in the
margins or stub your rollups in the inkwells. Orange may be worn. Credit
will be given to candidates who self-actualise.
(1) Compare and contrast Pink Floyd with Black Sabbath and say why
neither has street credibility.
(2) "Even Buddha would have been hard pushed to reach Nirvana squatting
on a juggernaut route." Consider the dialectic of inner truth
and inner city.
(3) Discuss degree of hassle involved in paranoia about being sucked
into a black hole.
(4) "The Egomaniac's Liberation Front were a bunch of revisionist
ripoff merchants." Comment on this insult.
(5) Account for the lack of references to brown rice in Dylan's lyrics.
(6) "Castenada was a bit of a bozo." How far is this a fair summing
up of western dualism?
(7) Hermann Hesse was a Pisces. Discuss.
|
We received
5197817
page views since December 2003
|
Don't have an account yet? You can create one. As a registered user you have some advantages like theme manager, comments configuration and post comments with your name.
 Membership:
 Latest:
 New Today:
 New Yesterday:
 Overall:
 People Online:
 Visitors:
 Members:
 Total: 0
|
|
|
