West Texas Talk
Rambling Boy – Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy
February 16th, 2012
By LONN TAYLOR
Last week I opened a carton from Texas Christian University Press containing ten advance author’s copies of my new book, Texas My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy. I thought they were the most beautiful books I have ever seen. They were designed for TCU Press by Barbara Matthews Whitehead, an Austin graphic …
Star Gazer – Star gazing south of the equator
February 16th, 2012
By PAUL DERRICK
This column comes to you from beautiful New Zealand deep in the Southern Hemisphere where my wife and I, along with two other couples, have just begun a six-week adventure in what many, including myself, consider the most beautiful and fascinating country in the world. And upon crossing the Equator, we went from …
Correspondence
February 16th, 2012
We would like to reply to a letter in last week’s paper.
When a drug dealer sells drugs to anyone, they should be locked up. When they sell drugs to 13-year-old kids and maybe younger, they for darn sure should be locked up. If you believe getting kids hooked on drugs is not a ‘real crime,’ …
Rambling Boy – El Indio cemetery tombstone mystery solved
February 9th, 2012
By LONN TAYLOR
The Karam Tombstone Mystery is solved. Faithful readers will recall that in my January 12 column I described a mysterious tombstone with an Arabic inscription in the El Indio cemetery between Presidio and Ruidosa. The tombstone commemorated two Lebanese peddlers, Ramon Karam and his fourteen-year old son, Salvador, who were murdered by bandits …
Library Talk – MPL catalog now online
February 9th, 2012
By RENEE MICK
Attention Marfa: the library’s catalog is now available online! This means our patrons can search our catalog from home, or from anywhere with internet access. Simply go to our library website: www.marfapubliclibrary.org where you will see the link to the library catalog in the sidebar menu. If an item you’ve searched for …
Correspondence
February 9th, 2012
My name is Jay Fuselier. I have been given the honor and support to be the new pastor of First Baptist Church here in Marfa. I accept this as both a job and a calling. I will strive to serve the congregation and the community in humility, sharing with each of you the love of …
