by Elaine Thomas | Mar 6, 2020 | Rural Life
Back in 2006, Hansl was in big trouble. The miniature donkey had broken out of his Fayette County, Texas, pasture once too often. His owner, who already had given the scallywag several second chances, was out of patience. Hansl had to go. ‘Go where?’ Hansl must...
by Elaine Thomas | Feb 21, 2020 | Saving Stories
Ambling along the backroads of Texas for 60 years, an unassuming, likable Houstonian named Leon Hale wrote about life off the beaten track. On a crisp January afternoon in 2020, this retired master of thousands of whimsical and wise daily 800-word newspaper columns...
by Elaine Thomas | Feb 10, 2020 | Saving Stories
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is sentimental about old valentines. Here are four sweet samples! 1. Denise Woodyard of La Grange, Texas, prizes the elaborate over-sized valentine her 19-year-old dad, Jack, sent his mother from Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1944, years...
by Elaine Thomas | Oct 24, 2018 | World War II
World War II veteran Winston Parker was shot down over Germany in 1942. The aviator then spent three years as a prisoner of war in Stalag VIIIB near Lamsdorf, Germany. Born in Calgary, Canada, in 1918, Parker had grown up on a farm. After England declared war on...
by Elaine Thomas | Oct 24, 2018 | Family, Saving Stories
“You don’t wash handmade braided rag rugs, you beat them,” I explained to my husband. Emil still turned up his nose at the once-handsome rug sticking out of the plastic sack on top of my luggage. “I don’t care,” he replied. “It’s filthy. It smells, and it’s not...
