See What’s Out There
Beautiful pictures and a great story. Texas does have wonderful scenery and vistas [Open Roads, Open Eyes; August 2024]. We all need to slow down and see what’s out there.
Mary Henderson Harp | Via Facebook
Early morning on the road between Earth and Dimmitt, in the Panhandle, familiar territory from my early years making a living shooting for seed and cattle operations. I hadn’t seen such a tall silage mound, and the man with his pitchfork caught my eye.
Wyatt McSpadden
Dimmitt, Darn It
Having grown up in Earth, the photo on Page 8 caught my eye [Open Roads, Open Eyes; August 2024]. I don’t recall silage mounds back in the 1950s, but I do recall Dimmitt being spelled with two T’s.
Evelyn McAnelly, Medina EC | Hondo
Getting Electricity
I was born in 1944 and raised on a farm in southwest Iowa [In the Beginning, August 2024]. We did not get power until 1947 or 1948. Our house was wired for electricity, but all progress toward lighting up the homes stopped when the war started.
We had the light switches, which, of course, did nothing, and my mom would tell me that I played with those switches so much, she wondered if they would still work when we actually did get power. Lucky for me they did.
Sheryl S. McNally, Pedernales EC | Marble Falls
Earthy Elocution
Lyndon B. Johnson could be earthy in his language at times, and many jokes and stories wouldn’t be suitable for a family magazine [Sense and Humor, August 2024].
One of the milder anecdotes involved a crisis in Greek politics between Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and his son and political opponent Andreas Papandreou. LBJ called the Greek ambassador in to urge the Greeks to get their act together.
LBJ, who wasn’t good at lengthy foreign names, told the ambassador, “You tell old Papa-what’s-his-name to get together with that other Papa-what’s-his-name and work something out.”
Charles Wukasch, Pedernales EC | Austin
Required Reading
Finish This Sentence in the August issue hit a chord. Elmer Kelton’s books are classic, and the one noted, The Time It Never Rained, is a must-read.
Charles Patterson, Navarro County EC | Corsicana
Trucks at the Ready
I want to thank the Nixon family and all families of linemen [Following in Dad’s Bootsteps, June 2024]. Since childhood, when the power was out, we looked for the electric trucks to roll into our neighborhood. It always seemed to be in the worst weather. But they always came.
Carol Meyer, Tri-County EC | Azle
Summer Memories
Even though I did not grow up in Texas, Renewal in Blue [June 2024] brought back many fond memories I have as a child spending time at my grandparents’ farm on the California coast.
Lynn Lutz, Pedernales EC
Get Out There
Dale Blasingame’s quest reminded me of our younger years enjoying Texas state parks [Trailblazer, June 2024]. There are so many locations I wish we had experienced, but I enjoyed reading his story and viewing the pictures to inspire others to seek out more than one’s own back door.
Kyle Walkup, South Plains EC | White River Lake
