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Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Cities are often known by the newspapers they support and the opportunities that their residents find. When one English immigrant arrived in Dallas in 1885, he became…
Marion County Herald & Jefferson Jimplecute
Covering Marion County, Texas
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Cities are often known by the newspapers they support and the opportunities that their residents find. When one English immigrant arrived in Dallas in 1885, he became…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Musicians and songwriters paint a picture of the world with their sounds, telling stories of joy and heartbreak and of beauty or sorrow. Country music is especially…
By Ken Bridges The Civil War was a time of great chaos and terrible destruction. Hundreds of thousands of men fought on both sides. In Texas, the commander of one…
By Ken Bridges She grew up in a time when women almost never attended college, almost never spoke out on the issues, and certainly never voted. But one woman did…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Many great cities have risen or fallen in the United States. Some have prospered and grown to become huge metropolises while others never came into focus or…
By Ken Bridges In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, millions of people would tune in weekly to watch Dallas, a night-time soap opera about the tawdry scandals and…
By Ken Bridges The name “Ima Hogg” has been a running joke in Texas for many years. However, for anyone who knew her or had ever been touched by her…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Texas universities have produced many interesting political figures. Perhaps one of the most unusual journeys was that of University of Texas graduate Fernando Belaunde. Belaunde earned a…
By Ken Bridges Quanah Parker became a respected leader of the Comanche Nation at the end of the Plains Indian Wars. He spent much of his life caught between two…
By Ken Bridges “An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure,” is a popular English proverb. It has also become an important idea in medicine, to avoid major…
By Ken Bridges He was the first chief justice of the state supreme court in Texas, and as such, he made Texas law into an instrument to be used by…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Many historians have called Stephen F. Austin the “father of Texas” for his efforts to bring the first settlers from the United States into Texas. But the…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer John Adams, the nation’s second president, once wrote, “I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study math and science and that their children…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Editors note: The following column ran in the July 23 print edition of the Jefferson Jimplecute an incorrect byline. This column was written by Ken Bridges, not…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Galveston, once the most important port city in Texas, suffered a crushing blow with the hurricane of 1900. Once the waters receded and the extent of the…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer For the adventurers and dreamers of the world, there are no limits. Wiley Hardeman Post was born on his parents’ cotton farm near Canton in November 1898.…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Henry B. Gonzalez had a long and controversial career as a Texas politician. He was the first Hispanic elected to Congress from Texas and was never afraid…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Summer in Texas brings memories of warm nights, the start of school, and the return of football. But it also means something else for Texans on the…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer The early 1900s was a formative time for education in Texas. Sidney Mezes, a one-time president of the University of Texas, rose to the forefront to serve…
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Doing the right thing is easy when it is popular and everyone supports it, but doing the right thing is very different when fighting people who have…