Forewarning at Floyd County Jail

  This is getting interesting…. The Floyd County jail in Floydada, Texas was originally built in 1925. It sits on the northeast courthouse square. It was built with three floors and included a basement. It was large enough to include living quarters for the county sheriff. This large jailhouse included 46 prisoner bunks and even…

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Don’t Open Your Mouth if You Don’t Know the Facts

Note: Ginny Phillips and I worked on saving the historic Mallet Ranch Headquarters in southwest Hockley County for over two years. As a scholar and researcher, I covered all my bases with my research and we went above and beyond in showing why this historic site was important to preserve in situ. We published a…

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Revelations of a Humble Priest Through Translations of His German Letters

  Learning more about Father Conrad Herda only intrigues my research more on this priest who served in Texas, specifically at the towns of Nazareth and Lindsay.  He was a priest assigned from Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas.   I’m thankful to Doris Miller for translating his German letters, so I can ascertain more about him…

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Is it done yet?

At my recent photography exhibition, the woman who has been like a mother to me for the last 20 years was reading my bio on the wall.  Glenna turned me and got mad over the fact that I did not mention the books I have either published or been published in. I never thought to…

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