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Willie Story Leaves Him Cold You let Joe Nick Patoski write a boring, one-sided piece on Willie Nelson’s visit to his hometown and the Abbott Methodist Church (“The Gospel According to Willie,” May 2008), but it doesn’t tell about Willie, the man, or his feelings about life or anything else for that matter. And the…

Mesquite Worse Than Bamboo Author Clay Coppedge incorrectly states (March 2008) that bamboo once served as a windbreak along the River Styx—a claim that those of us intimately knowledgeable about the River Styx know is incorrect. The windbreaks along the River Styx are composed of South Texas’ own mesquite trees, which are surely much more…

Country Doctors the ‘Best’ I look forward to receiving Texas Co-op Power because I have come to expect at least one article in each issue to inform and delight me. The February issue is no exception. In fact, for me, the article by Sandy Sheehy, “Country Doctors,” is the best of the best. It makes…

Medical Article on Target What a wonderful surprise was awaiting me as I walked into my office this morning—a copy of the February 2008 edition with the incredible cover photo of Dr. Robert Allen Youens. Not only was I impressed with the photo, the article was first-rate. You captured the spirit of rural physicians. Shannon…

No Book Burnings in Sweetwater Carlton Stowers in the December 2007 Footnotes in History, mentions the book burning alleged to have occurred in Sweetwater in 1925 as the result of Dorothy Scarborough’s book, The Wind. No trace of factual evidence [of a book burning] was ever uncovered. The book did create a furor in Sweetwater….