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The tin roof is a distant memory, but I can still hear music in the patter of rain

Weekly papers in remote West Texas are still kicking

Holidays at my maternal grandparents’ house almost always included a many-layered Lord Baltimore Cake served with Grandma’s homemade ambrosia. She’d spend all day in the kitchen to make the cakes, filling and ambrosia, including sectioning the oranges and grating the coconut by hand. Old-fashioned Southern cakes are a lot of trouble, but well worth it…

Larry Sanders hopes someday his gutted Atlas missile silo will become the first 20th century addition to the Texas Forts Trail.

Handmade years ago, the star that tops our tree is nothing fancy, but to me, it’s just heavenly!