A week after Patton Springs Elementary teacher Annie Maree Gressett keyed a long-shot Twitter message into her phone with an animated “PLEASE”? gif, the boxes bearing the Amazon “smile” started arriving.
PARADE PANORAMA A panorama made from two undated black-and-white photographs provided by Joan Day of The Back Door Inn and the Texas Farm Bureau provides clues to the early tenants of the east side of Burlington Avenue from City Hall to today’s AEP Building at 412 Burlington. According to Day, the Farm Bureau moved into 412 Burlington in 2007.
Quanah Parker Trail arrows will stand a little taller on Saturday, September 12—Quanah Parker Day in Texas. The statewide observance, which Texas Governor Greg Abbott decreed for the second Saturday of each September, commemorates the life of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker.