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18 co-op News Get the latest information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative.

29 Footnotes in texas history Boomtown Pandemic By Gene Fowler

30 tcp Kitchen Buckles, Betties, Cobblers and Crisps By Megan Myers

34 hit the road Matagorda Island 10 Lighthouse By Chet Garner 08 By the Why Horses 37 Focus on texas Photo Contest: Numbers Wear Shoes Selfies The countless ways electric Texas farriers truly know the way co-ops make a difference to a horse’s heart. across Texas. 38 observations Story by Brenda Kissko Memorable Story by Tom Widlowski Photos by Kristin Tyler Moment Illustration by Shaw Nielsen By Julia Robinson

On The COver Farrier Jim Crawford at McManus ranch in Irion County. AbOve Crawford shapes a horseshoe. Photos by Kristin Tyler

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Howdy, lights out General electric, co-founded Pandowdy by Thomas edison, inventor this month (Page 30) is Cobblers, Crisps, of the modern lightbulb, our recipes theMe Buckles and Betties. Seems like a lot of names for a dish that is recently sold its 129-year- essentially fruit baked with batter, biscuits, dough or crumble. Turns out those dishes, which have been around since old lighting business. colonists arrived in this country with their recipes from England, The New York Times com- go by many other names, including crumbles, grunts, slumps, pared this move to Kellogg bird’s nest pudding, sonkers and pandowdies. abandoning cornflakes or Ford getting out of the auto industry.

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By the Numbers The countless ways electric co-ops 30–35 make a difference across Texas pounds of gear weighs down lineworkers when climbing a pole— the less you think about your iN soMe Ways, hooks, a belt, tools and more. electric cooperative, the better. That means your power has stayed on almost without fail, outages are quickly remedied, and your monthly bills are fair and reasonable. But a lot of thought goes into electric co-ops because they are so much more 9,300 than power providers. They are united by a business model that values community people over profits. They are locally owned and work at the democratically controlled by their customers, called members. They work together to achieve goals and solve problems. Your 69 cooperative is one of more than 900 electric co-ops in the U.S. electric co-ops The co-op business model is used by a wide variety of organizations—not just in the state. 3.7 electric utilities. Ace Hardware; REI, which specializes in outdoor clothing and gear; million Ocean Spray; Sunkist; and Land O’Lakes readers operate as co-ops. In fact, there are more than 40,000 co-op businesses in the U.S., 85 of texas co-op with 350 million members, according to a power, which has University of Wisconsin study. years been landing in October is National Cooperative Month, mailboxes since a good opportunity to show the reach, scope of co-ops in texas. 1944. that’s like and numbers behind Texas’ electric co-ops bartlett ec, formed in 1935 everybody in that, when added up, reveal the significant as the first co-op in the houston and dallas impact they have on rural and suburban country to receive a rural having the same D communities. electrification administration favorite magazine loan, turned on its first as you. light March 7, 1936, at a farmhouse outside bartlett.

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By Brenda KissKo • photos By Kristin tyler

Texas farriers truly know the way to a Why Horses horse’s heart Wear Shoes

t’s another sunny December day in West Texas, and Jim tive. Houston welcomed him to the house and made his Crawford crosses the fifth and final cattle guard on his signature extra-strong coffee. “It was boiling in the cup,” two-hour drive to the McManus Ranch from his home Crawford laughs. “I thought, jeez, how does his system near Ballinger. Crawford is there to shoe horses, as he has handle that? Must be cast iron.” Nearly 50 years later, he Ibeen doing on this ranch since the early 1970s. He pulls his still remembers the gray horse he shod that day. trailer to a convenient spot near the barn. Crawford loves his work, but he originally dreamed of He wears denim, lace-up boots, suspenders and his becoming a calf roper. signature red-and-white polka-dot welding cap. Last he ties “I had a lot of try, but I didn’t have the talent,” he jokes. on the leather farrier apron he stitched himself. Crawford is “I could win fifth if they were paying four.” The first horse wearing the same outfit I remember him always wearing Crawford shod was his own calf roping horse, Wimp, named when he visited as I grew up on this ranch. My dad, Beaver after the horse’s grandfather, Wimpy P-1, born on the King McManus, a member of Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Ranch and the first horse registered with the American says it’s the same uniform young Crawford wore the day he met him as a junior high boy when he came out to the ranch with his great-uncle Houston Crawford. When you live this far out, you look forward to visitors. The days that Crawford comes to the ranch to shoe horses are days filled with storytelling. More often than not, farriers become lifelong friends with horse owners. “I couldn’t have gotten along without him the last 30 years,” Dad says. “He’s more than someone who just came out to shoe our horses. He’s part of our extended family.” Farrier, derived from the Latin word ferrarius, meaning blacksmith, is the professional name given to horseshoers. Many prefer to be called farriers, but others, like Crawford, prefer the simpler term “horseshoer.” No matter what they’re OppOsITe called, they’re necessary to the state’s equine industry. Farrier Jim Crawford has been fitting shoes onto Crawford recalls first getting the horseshoeing gig at the horses for decades. AbOve ranch. Houston asked him to meet at the mailbox before Crawford rasps one of peanut’s dawn, and the young shoer beat him there. “I think that hooves for a final fit at McManus impressed him, that he didn’t have to wait on me,” says ranch in Irion County. Crawford, a member of Coleman County Electric Coopera-

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Quarter Horse Association. Crawford hoped a regular horseshoeing clientele would enable him to stay at the roping gig longer. In the spring of 1972, Crawford used his GI Bill benefits to go to horseshoeing school. An outbreak of screwworms in the summer of ’72 forced ranchers to ride their land daily to monitor their livestock. This created high demand were ranchers with working horses. Now more than half are for farriers. Crawford was getting calls to book his services pleasure horses. before he’d completed the 10-week course. When he fin- Texas ranks No. 1 in the nation for its inventory of horses, ished, he had a satisfying work schedule and a long list of ponies, mules, burros and donkeys. Though there’s been a clients. He became so busy shoeing horses he never transition in the horse’s function from work to pleasure, returned to roping. horses are still big business in Texas and create a constant Crawford’s customers come to him through word-of- demand for farriers. mouth recommendations. A stack of spiral notebooks tell the stories and names of most horses he’s shod through hy do horses need shoes? There’s an old saying, the decades. “no foot, no horse,” which speaks to the impor- “Showing up and having the shoe stay on made my tance of a horse’s feet to its overall health. Each career,” Crawford says. “When I first started, guys used horse’s foot includes a mechanism that pumps blood back their horses hard.” Originally, nearly 100% of his clients Wup to the heart, so each foot is like an auxiliary heart for the

12 TEXAS CO
OP POWER OCTOber 2020 TexAsCOOppOwer.COM ClOCKwIse FrOM FAr leFT Crawford shapes a horse- shoe at his anvil. The tools and nails he uses. Crawford explains how he gives horses a proper fit. A homemade tool used to nail shoes to hooves. Crawford shows up for jobs with racks of horse- shoes in the bed of his pickup.

edgeable in the treatment of many hoof diseases, such as laminitis, navicular disease and thrush. It’s believed that the horse was domesticated around 3000 B.C., and Egyptians and Persians are credited with creating the first horseshoes from woven reeds and grass. The horseshoe has evolved through the ages, though the steel shoe has not changed much since the mid-1800s, when Henry Burden patented a machine that could mass-produce horseshoes. Although many synthetic shoes have come on the market in recent years, the majority of farriers still put on a steel shoe that’s either hand-forged or ready- made and shaped either cold or hot and fitted to the animal. animal. A horse’s hoof is a living, growing part of that Before a shoe is placed, the farrier will clean and trim the anatomy. Most components of a horse’s hoof are elastic, hoof to ensure a level and balanced foot. Even hooves that so they also act as shock absorbers. go without shoes likely need to be trimmed on a regular When the growth of the hoof is balanced by equal wear basis. The farrier will then customize the shoe to mimic the and no disease or abnormalities are present, horseshoes shape of that horse’s hoof wall. The shoe is nailed outside of are not necessary. Horseshoes are used for protection, the wall from the bottom, so the nails penetrate the portion traction and correction. Whether it is racing, ranching or of the hoof that has no feeling. rodeoing, a horse’s work is rough on its feet. That’s when The Texas Professional Farriers Association comprises shoes are necessary. Shoes also correct some problems with about 200 members that meet regularly for continuing gait and lameness. education. Texas does not require farriers to have a Horseshoeing is both art and science, and skilled farriers license to practice, but the TPFA helps members achieve pride themselves on helping to keep horses sound. Farriers certification through the American Farrier’s Association. study the anatomy of a horse’s entire leg and are knowl- Certification exams include a written and a practical

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W e b e x t r a learn more about alternative shoes and how to find or become a farrier, and read a proverb that puts a fine point on the value of horseshoes.

component. The TPFA also hosts clinics and competitions throughout the year. “A shoe should be a comple- ment to the horse, not an interrup- tion,” says Danny Anderson, TPFA president. Anderson owns Indian Creek Forge in Whitesboro and is a member of PenTex Energy. He says the organization is growing, and there is an up-and-coming generation of farriers.

eterans in the industry are passing along their knowledge of the trade to new members, and they don’t all vlook like Crawford. Women have gotten involved. According to the 2019 Farrier Business Practices Report pro- duced by American Farriers Journal, 18% of farriers are women, up from 8% reported three years prior. In 2018 Cornell University admitted its first all- female class to its farrier program. ate that.” Smith forges all the steel and aluminum shoes Nichole Smith co-owns SS Horseshoeing in Wichita Falls she sets. with her husband, Stephen, and is leading the way in the Although technology like 3D printing is quickly advanc- growing sector of female farriers. She was the first woman ing this industry, there’s no replacement for the friendly in the world to achieve multiple farrier certifications and smile and personal care for horses a farrier brings. has mentored other women. Crawford smiles as he looks back at his career: “Having “I’m really excited that so many young ladies are getting people know that I did a good job and knowing that I was involved and doing so well,” Smith says. “Some ladies are appreciated—that’s the reward.”D small-statured, and they need to be prepared to use their brain to overcome some of the challenges. I’ve always been welcomed in this industry, like family, and I appreci-

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More and more, coal is gone with the wind in Texas CoServ expects to increase share of renewables in coming years

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The 100 MW Lapetus Solar Energy Project near Midland is one of several sources of renewable energy for CoServ Members. 2019 ERCOT long been FOSSIL FUELS HAVE fuel mix king in Texas, but wind and solar power are quickly gaining in MWh prominence. Texas’ wind power not only blows away all other states, but it also ranks in the top fi ve among countries worldwide with nearly 25,000 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity at the start of 2019, according to the Energy Information Administration. Solar power is on the rise, too, as Texas ranks sixth in the country for solar power and has doubled capacity in the last two years, the EIA reported. With this well-publicized shift to renewable energy in a state known for oil and natural gas, CoServ Members might be 2019 Brazos wondering how much of their electricity comes from renewable power mix sources. In 2019, CoServ sold about in MWh 629,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy. CoServ buys power from Brazos Electric Cooperative, and Brazos in turn buys a portion of its power supply from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) wholesale market. The electricity comes from a variety of generation resources, including coal, natural gas, solar and wind.

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10-20_CoServ_TCP.indd 18 9/11/20 9:17 AM The average CoServ home uses approximately 1,375 kilowatt- ENERGY ENGINEERING: COSERV’S POWER MIX hours (kWh) per month, so looking at the renewable energy profi le from both Brazos and ERCOT, about 11.5 percent, or 158 kWh, comes from solar and wind power. And this number is expected to only increase in the coming years. In January, CoServ started purchasing half the production from the 100 MW Lapetus Solar Energy Project in West Texas. This project alone boosts CoServ’s renewable energy purchases from Brazos by 2.5 percent. In addition, ERCOT has signed interconnection agreements for 8,200 MW of wind power expected to come online by the end of next year. “As ERCOT gets more and more green with a higher share of renewables, CoServ benefi ts because we get more low-cost renewable energy,” said PHOTO BY KEN OLTMANN Gary Franzen, CoServ’s Director of CoServ’s Energy Services. Increasing renewable energy power resources usually makes better economic mix sense than constructing more fossil fuel * generation plants, Gary said. Brazos, CoServ’s main power supplier since 1941, in MWh hasn’t built a fossil fuel plant since 2013. But when it comes to renewable energy, Gary said CoServ and Brazos are always evaluating the need for additional power purchase agreements like the Lapetus deal executed in January. At the time, it marked the largest power purchase agreement between an electric cooperative and a solar facility in Texas. Coal power continues to lose market share in Texas due in part to increasing renewables, but also due to hydraulic fracturing and shale drilling making natural gas cheap and abundant in the United States. The declining cost of natural gas has turned the power world on its head in the past decade, and it has made many natural gas-fi red generation plants less expensive to run than coal plants. “Cheap natural gas and renewables have displaced coal,” Gary said. “When ERCOT decides which plants to run, they start with the cheaper ones before the more expensive ones, * This graphic shows the origin of electricity provided by so the coal plants are called upon to run less often.” Brazos, including electricity from both Brazos-owned In 2010, coal produced 40 percent of the power in the generation and market purchases (ERCOT). For clarity, ERCOT grid while natural gas produced 38 percent and wind Brazos does not own any nuclear generation. All the nuclear energy is obtained through Brazos market purchases based produced only 8 percent. In 2019, coal production fell to 20 upon the share of nuclear provided to the ERCOT market. percent, the same as wind power, and natural gas increased to 47 percent. The economics of wind and solar have shifted in recent years to the point that they cost less over the entire life of the “The overriding trend is that with the generation source. This includes both upfront capital costs growth of renewables, prices have become and ongoing operating costs with all things being equal and cheaper to the point where in most places, not considering government subsidies, Gary said. And once including Texas, it’s cheaper to build a solar they are built, wind and solar facilities require less manpower or wind farm than it is a new fossil fuel than fossil fuel plants and don’t require any fuel to generate generation facility.” D electricity.

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10-20_CoServ_TCP.indd 19 9/11/20 9:17 AM Following a few simple tips this fall will help prep your home for winter PHOTOS BY KEN OLTMANN

STORY BY NICHOLAS SAKELARIS The end of fall and the start of

when the first cold winter is also a great time to WITHOUT FAIL, snap hits North Texas, CoServ Gas gets a flood of calls from Customers winterize your house, including: concerned about a burning smell inside their homes. e Most of the time, it’s normal and SMOKE ALARMS/CARBON there’s nothing to worry about. MONOXIDE DETECTOR: “We’re going to get calls because Check the batteries in these they think they smell gas, but a lot of devices and test them to times that’s just the dust burning,” make sure they are working said Jason Walker, CoServ’s Director properly. e of Gas Operations. HVAC: Have a licensed What happens is that the heater contractor check your typically goes unused for more than heating and cooling half the year in Texas, so dust builds systems during the up on furnace and ducts. When the shoulder months when you may not need either one. unit turns on for the first time each e season, the hot air consumes the dust, FILTERS: Change out your HVAC filters e causing a burning smell. FIREPLACE: Ensure the chimney flue is cleaned out and free of debris Natural gas is odorless and before you light any fires. colorless in its natural state, but all e the gas CoServ delivers to Customers’ NATURAL GAS APPLIANCES: Have a specially trained natural gas homes includes mercaptan, an odor plumber check your natural gas appliances, especially the heater and that smells like rotten eggs or sulfur, fireplace if they sit dormant during the offseason. distinctly different than the smell of dust being burned off, Jason said. D

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10-20_CoServ_TCP.indd 20 9/11/20 9:17 AM COSERV GAS: SAFETY TIPS Here’s what to do State law or not do requires that if you smell natural gas. you call 811 Do:

before you Leave the house or building, walk a safe dig deeper distance away and than 16 inches. CALL 911 Do:

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PHOTOS Whitney Gohlke, CoServ’s Manager of Academic Initiatives, checks in Lewisville ISD parents so they can pick up electronic devices (below right) for their children. Meanwhile in Frisco, Energy Education Lead Randy Copeland and CoServ’s safety mascot, Mr. Diggs, helped fill goody bags for teachers.

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school year was anything THE START OF THE 2020-2021 but normal. Would learning be virtual, in-person or some combination of the two? The COVID-19 pandemic forced parents, teachers and school districts to make tough decisions regarding students and classrooms amid continued uncertainty. Better One thing that shouldn’t be doubted is CoServ’s Together commitment to academic initiatives. OPERATION BETTER TOGETHER CoServ’s Community Engagement Team jumped at the CoServ assists with goody bags, laptops opportunity to help put together goody bags for every Frisco ISD teacher. The Operation Better Together project started to start school year right amid COVID-19 with Altair Global, a corporate relocation firm based in Frisco that, like so many other businesses, has been hit hard by the pandemic. STORY BY When they realized they couldn’t accomplish such a massive NICHOLAS SAKELARIS undertaking themselves, they reached out to Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney for advice. He encouraged them to contact CoServ. CoServ has been the title sponsor of Frisco ISD’s New Teacher Welcome event for several years, so the Operation

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Better Together project was just a natural extension of that and a great way to give back to all teachers in the district. “Getting the recommendation from Mayor Cheney to work on a project as meaningful as this just speaks to the great relationship we have built with the 2020-2021 city of Frisco,” said CoServ President and CEO Donnie Clary. “We are an energy company, yet our focus is always on Dyer Elementary Paloma Creek people, so being able to show Frisco ISD Krum ISD Elementary teachers how much we appreciate them, Denton ISD alongside so many other great local companies, is awesome.” CoServ enlisted the help of several Rogers community partners, including the Elementary Frisco ISD Texas Legends, Frisco RoughRiders Ponder Elementary and FC Dallas, and several businesses Ponder ISD Corinth to get the goody bags distributed the Elementary same week students came back for Lake Dallas ISD in-person learning. The goody bags included hand sanitizer, a face mask and a bottle of Clara Love Elementary water, as well as special giveaways from Northwest ISD the Legends, RoughRiders and FC Dallas. BENDT Distillery in Lewisville donated thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer. The distillery, which also has “We are extremely devices to families,” Bryon Kolbeck, struggled fi nancially this honored to be able to Lewisville ISD’s Chief Technology year, began producing provide this small token Offi cer, said. “Thanks to volunteers like hand sanitizer instead of appreciation for FISD the amazing Employees from CoServ, of whiskey when the teachers to extend our their support will ensure our families are COVID-19 pandemic gratitude and support as ready for the school year.” started. this unique school year Plato’s Closet in begins.” ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM Frisco provided a discount EXPANDS and helped negotiate a better price The challenges of COVID-19 have made LENDING A HAND TO from their supplier for the face masks. CoServ’s Adopt-a-School program LEWISVILLE ISD Market Street, also in Frisco, donated The Community Engagement Team also more important than ever. CoServ has thousands of water bottles. reached out to the school districts within expanded the program to six elementary Altogether, Operation Better Together our service territory to see how we schools, including four new ones. collected more than $80,000 in cash, could help them get ready for this very CoServ helps these Title I schools with donations and in-kind labor from area challenging school year. catered meals for teachers, on-campus businesses and sports teams to put Lewisville ISD offi cials said they projects and other feel-good perks to together about 4,500 gift bags – one for needed help handing out thousands show the staff that they are appreciated. every teacher in Frisco ISD. of computers and tablets to students “We try really hard to build a “This initiative started as a passion for the upcoming school year. CoServ’s relationship with the school,” said project from one of our team members,” Community Engagement Team had six Whitney Gohlke, CoServ’s Manager said Chad Sterling, CEO for Altair Employees who volunteered about 30 of Community Relations. Global. “Capitalizing on her dedication hours over two weeks. The program will look diff erent this and tenacity, Altair Global picked up the They helped check people in, sanitized year with COVID-19 and the need for torch and was able to gather donations surfaces and translated for people who social distancing. D and resources from our community needed it. of supplier partners and other local “We are grateful they reached out to businesses. assist our department with distributing

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10-20_CoServ_TCP.indd 23 9/11/20 9:17 AM CUSTOMER CARE: PODCAST 101 CoServ has a podcast? Yes, As A Meter Of Fact

WHAT IS A PODCAST? A podcast is an original audio show that is recorded and produced by individuals, teams, studios and businesses. More than 850,000 active podcasts exist, and they focus on a variety of topics, including news, sports, entertainment and politics. Podcasts can be educational, funny, inspirational or emotionally moving. A podcast can be a talk show or a story, a lecture or an investigative report.

WHY DOES COSERV HAVE A PODCAST? The podcast helps us connect with CoServ Members and Customers in a fresh way. As A Meter Of Fact also helps us strengthen our relationship with an engaged audience, because podcasts create a special bond between hosts and listeners that sets them apart from other platforms.

HOW LONG ARE THE EPISODES? Full episodes can run 20 minutes or more, and we also feature shorter “Q&R” audio clips that often address specific questions submitted by listeners. Podcasts are convenient to listen to because you can pause and resume at your convenience – whether you’re listening while driving,

N AN exercising, doing chores around the house or just M LT O EN Y K relaxing with the headphones on. S B TO PHO WHERE CAN I LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE? Visit CoServ.com/Podcast to listen to the latest As A Meter Of Fact episodes. You can also use podcast apps like Spotify or Apple Podcasts to listen and subscribe.

CoServ Communications WHY SHOULD I LISTEN? Team members Sara Ellis As A Meter Of Fact converts energy industry insights and Jason Cress co-host into conversational news you can use. Confused As A Meter Of Fact. In about Capital Credits? Why does CoServ use “snake addition to discussing fences” around substations? What’s your first move topics relevant to CoServ if you suspect a natural gas leak? As A Meter Of Fact Members and Customers, addresses these questions and more. the podcast often features special guests, including HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE? CoServ President/CEO Email [email protected] with any questions, Donnie Clary (above left). comments or suggestions for a future episode. You can also use your phone’s voice memo app to As A Meter Of Fact. record a message and send it to us. We look forward to your feedback! Entertaining. Smart. Local. Basically everything you want in a podcast.

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Online or on the phone, we’re here to serve CoServ’s communication goal is simple: As your trusted energy advisor, we want to answer any questions you have about your account and help you fi nd ways to CONTACT US save energy and money. Here are several ways you can stay in touch with us. 7701 South Stemmons Corinth, TX 76210-1842 CoServ.com [email protected] EMAIL (940) 321-7800

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Questions, comments, [email protected] suggestions? SMARTHUB District 6 Send your message to Manage your account online at Bill Ragsdale - Chairman [email protected], CoServ.com/SmartHub, where District 3 and a local Customer Care you can set up your communication Chris McCraw - Vice Chairman Specialist will reply. preferences, track your energy District 5 Trisha Sheffi eld - Secretary/Treasurer usage, and establish automatic District 1 payments and paperless billing. Richard Muir CoServ.com/SmartHub District 2 Leon Pelzel District 4 PHONE Please see CoServ.com/Board COSERV District 7 APP Weekdays Curtis Tally 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EXECUTIVE TEAM (940) 321-7800 [email protected] Toll free Donnie Clary – President/CEO (800) 274-4014 Brent Bishop – Senior VP/CFO Denise Smithers – Senior VP, Corporate For emergencies, call one Relations of these numbers 24/7: Greg Ward – Senior VP, Field Operations Access all the SmartHub options Gas Emergency Jeff McNeal – Senior VP, Information on your mobile device to stay Technology on the go and in control. (Note: (844) 330-0763 Robby Hamlin – Senior VP, Engineering You must register your account Electric Emergency Services at CoServ.com/SmartHub before (844) 330-0762 accessing it on the app.) ONLINE OPTIONS Visit CoServ.com to log in to your SmartHub account and: • Make payments ONLINE • Print account statements (for proof COSERV.COM/NEWS of residency) CHAT • Establish paperless billing and Auto Pay Find links to CoServ’s blog, • Report outages and set up notifi cations Visit CoServ.com between 8 podcast and Texas Co-op a.m. and 5 p.m. to chat with a magazine articles and archives. Customer Care Specialist. Download the CoServ app to do all of the above COSERV MEMBERS ELECT on your phone! NEW BOARD DIRECTOR The result of the District 4 Runoff Election POWER OUT? was announced at a special CoServ Member meeting on September 24, which was before Visit CoServ.com/OutageMap this magazine’s publication deadline. To see the result and view the meeting in its entirety, or text OUT to 768482 please visit CoServ.com/Board.

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Main street in Desdemona at the height of the oil boom in 1918, which was also when the flu pandemic struck.

warnings, lessons and reassurances.” The interviews and other materials in the archive were gathered in the 1950s and include direct testimony about the 1918 flu pandemic. Interviewee Walter Cline, who later became mayor of Burkburnett, served as field director for the Red Cross at Call Field near Wichita Falls when the flu hit. Cline headed into the Burkburnett oil field with doctors and nurses as well as food, clothing, medicine and other donated resources. His team found people “suffering from flu and exposed in covered wagons and under these tarpaulins,” he said. “In one place, you’d find a mother dead, with a little 6- or 8-months-old baby crawling around over her breast, trying to open her dress. … I think on our first trip west of Burk- burnett, we gathered up some six or eight dead men, women and children, Boomtown and they continued to die until we found temporary shelter for them.” Fred Jennings, a rig manager at Goose Pandemic Creek Oil Field near Baytown, recalled, “The people died, and they just died so fast here till they didn’t have no under- The deadly flu outbreak of 1918 hit oil fields hard takers. You’d just have to put them in By gene Fowler pickup trucks and haul them to Houston. Just put them in a pine box and bury has drawn Texas’ early 20th-century oil boom also them any way you could. … I saw one the covid-19 paNdeMic comparisons to the influenza outbreak of allowed the disease to spread unchecked. man working and walk home and was 1918, what became known as the Spanish The lack of suitable housing and access dead in 30 minutes.” flu, which was the 20th century’s dead- to fresh water, and poor sanitation in Don Carleton, Briscoe Center execu- liest pandemic. The Spanish flu infected towns besieged by thousands of boomers tive director, says we don’t know the full about 500 million people, or one-third of —as Ranger, Burkburnett and Desde- impact of the 1918 pandemic, but the the world’s population, according to mona were in 1918—created an environ- disease reached Texas’ highest office. Centers for Disease Control and Preven- ment in which infection flourished. Researching his forthcoming biography tion estimates. Tens of millions died Researcher Ben Wright found evi- of Gov. William P. Hobby, Carleton worldwide, including approximately dence of the boomtown epidemic in the learned that Hobby fought the deadly 675,000 Americans. Oral History of the Texas Oil Industry, an contagion just as desperately as the Of the 5,000 Texans killed in World archive of recordings held by the Dolph roughnecks of the oil fields. War I, a third are believed to have died Briscoe Center for American History at “I was quite surprised to learn that from influenza. While the battlefield, the University of Texas at Austin. “Part even our state’s governor was afflicted with soldiers crowded in makeshift of my job is to work out ways the center’s with the disease,” Carleton said. D ramparts, provided a natural incubator collections inform current issues,” said

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Mixed Berry Pistachio Crisp 5 tablespoons cold butter, plus more Buckles, Betties, for greasing the dish 4 cups frozen mixed berries 1 tablespoon lemon juice Cobblers and Crisps ¼ cup sugar 4 tablespoons flour, divided use lots of names for turning fruit and a crunchy topping into irresistible treats 1 cup rolled oats ¼ cup chopped pistachios By megan myers, Food editor ⅓ cup brown sugar ¼ teaspoon salt buckles and betties and cobblers and crisps—whatever you call ¼ teaspoon cinnamon them—are the essence of comforting, down-home cooking. everyone has their favorite recipe in their back pocket, no matter the season. c o o K ’ s t i p To make this recipe gluten free, Our family is partial to crisps. That buttery, crunchy topping is tempting use oat flour, almond flour or your favorite gluten-free blend. enough to eat on its own, and pairing it with juicy fruits (and a scoop of ice cream) makes it difficult to resist. Another bonus: These dishes are 1. preheat oven to 350 degrees. lightly easy to make, so dessert can happen any night of the week. coat a 9-inch pie dish or oven-safe skillet with butter. 2. In a large bowl, add berries, then sprin- kle lemon juice over the top. Combine sugar and 2 tablespoons flour and sprinkle over berries; mix well. pour into the prepared pan. 3. In a small bowl, combine oats, pista- chios, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, salt and cinnamon. Cut in butter using a pastry blender or two forks until large clumps are formed and no dry bits remain. sprinkle topping evenly over fruit mixture. 4. bake 45–50 minutes, until browned and bubbly.

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03 alvarado [3–4, 10–11, 17–18, 24–25, 31] sunset hill tree Farm pumpkin patch, (817) 713-6114, sunsethilltreefarm.com

08 tyler [8–11] Fall Fun— COurTesy CheT GArner hunter/Jumper horse show, (903) 882-8696, texasrosehorsepark.com Matagorda island lighthouse 09 ingram [9–10, 16–17, 23–24] Ancient tower once guided ships to Indianola count Dracula, (830) 367-5121, hcaf.com By Chet garner

the mosquitoes would, so I pedaled as fast iF the heat didN’t taKe Me, 10 Jacksonville cherokee craft as I could through the grass and sand, hoping I was rolling in the right & trade Fair, (903) 268-1598 direction. I was committed to seeing the Matagorda Island lighthouse, and the price of admission is a 2.5-mile trek across this desolate island. Kerrville Kerr county Market The barrier island is 38 miles long and uninhabited, save for a small days and hill country swap Meet, (830) 459-6198, outpost used by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. TPWD ran a kerrmarketdays.org daily ferry to the island until 2003, when a fire destroyed the state’s boat, and the ferry service was lost in the flames. If you want to visit Matagorda brenham [10, 16–17, 24] Island now, you either float your own boat across Espiritu Santo Bay or hot Nights, cool tunes, (979) 337-7580, enlist a fishing guide in Port O’Connor. I reached the island with the help downtownbrenham.com of guide Mike Bohac, who delivered me to Matagorda, pointed toward the lighthouse and said, “Head that way.” After an hour of pedaling, I could see the lighthouse. It was built in 1852 11 dallas prism health North texas virtual lifeWalk to guide ships through Pass Cavallo on their way to Indianola. Numerous 2020, (214) 521-5191, renovations and a relocation raised the structure to where it now sits, 91 lifewalk.org/event/lifewalk feet above sea level. The Confederate States army tried to blow up the lighthouse to keep it from falling into Union hands, but the cast-iron struc- 16 ture survived. austin [16–19] american institute of architects austin I peered into a small glass window at the bottom of the lighthouse and homes tour, (512) 452-4332, wondered what the view was like from the top. Volunteers open it up on aiaaustin.org/homes-tour/2020 special occasions, but my trip was not one of those. Near the lighthouse, I inspected the foundation for the lightkeeper’s home and a small ceme- terlingua [16–17] ride 4 trails, (432) 371-3382, tery where deceased keepers lie in rest, still guarding the tower. ride4trails.com It was easy to imagine the isolation they must have felt here on the edge of Texas. D 17 tyler [17–18] North texas hunter Jumper club Fall horse show, (903) 882-8696, AbOve Chet takes a selfie with the 1852 Matagorda Island lighthouse. texasrosehorsepark.com

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