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Texas Co-Op Power • February 2020 2002_local covers custom.qxp 1/14/20 6:04 PM Page 8 PEDERNALES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE NEWS FEBRUARY 2020 Crape Murder Legendary Pitmasters Meet Forget Chocolate CRAWFISH, Y’ALL Mudbug-loving Texans pull up a seat at the communal table Get a Free Seed PacketSEE PAGE 19 MMADE A D E FFOR O R LLASTINGASTING performance Let Mueller create a custom steel building that will serve your needs for decades to come. Put us to work on a garage, storage building, workshop or combination of all three. All of our buildings are designed and manufactured in the USA, featuring commercial grade steel and limited paint warranties up to 30 years. That means they’re built to last – and backed by a company that’s been in business for 90 years. Learn more at: www.muellerinc.com 877-2-MUELLER 8772683553 Since 1944 February 2020 FAVORITES 5 Letters 6 Currents 18 Co-op News Get the latest information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative. 29 Texas History Meat and Greet By Wyatt McSpadden 31 Recipes Forget Chocolate, My Sweetie Likes . 35 Focus on Texas Photo Contest: Power 36 Around Texas List of Local Events 38 Hit the Road The Height of Deceit By Chet Garner Crawfish and good times ONLINE at Repka’s in Brookshire. TexasCoopPower.com Find these stories online if they don’t FEATURES appear in your edition of the magazine. Texas USA Crape Murder As healthy trees are hacked in the prime On Board the Elissa By Joey Held 8 of their lives, an expert pleads: “Stop the madness!” Story by Sheryl Smith-Rodgers | Illustration by Michael Koelsch Observations A Texan at Iwo Jima A Tale of Texas Crawfish Tasty crustaceans create a By Gene Fowler 10 feasting frenzy every spring. Story and photos by Eric W. Pohl NEXT MONTH Soul Music of South Texas Conjunto coaxes a unique sound and subculture from accordions and 12-string guitars. 31 38 29 35 CRAWFISH: ERIC W. POHL. CONJUNTO ARTIST: COURTESY TEXAS FOLKLIFE ON THE COVER For many Texans, a crawfish boil marks more than the arrival of spring. Photo by Eric W. Pohl TEXAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Alan Lesley, Chair, Comanche; Robert Loth III, Vice Chair, Fredericksburg; Gary Raybon, Secretary-Treasurer, El Campo; Mark Boyd, Douglassville; Greg Henley, Tahoka; Billy Jones, Corsicana; David McGinnis, Van Alstyne • PRESIDENT/CEO: Mike Williams, Austin • COMMUNICATIONS & MEMBER SERVICES COMMITTEE: Marty Haught, Burleson; Bill Hetherington, Bandera; Ron Hughes, Sinton; Boyd McCamish, Littlefield; Mark McClain, Roby; John Ed Shinpaugh, Bonham; Robert Walker, Gilmer; Brandon Young, McGregor • MAGAZINE STAFF: Martin Bevins, Vice President, Communications & Member Services; Charles J. Lohrmann, Editor; Tom Widlowski, Associate Editor; Karen Nejtek, Production Manager; Andy Doughty, Creative Manager; Elaine Sproull, Advertising Manager; Chris Burrows, Senior Communications Specialist; Grace Fultz, Print Production Specialist; Travis Hill, Com- munications Specialist; Qasim K. Johnson, Administrative Assistant; Megan Myers, Food Editor; Jessica Ridge, Communications Specialist; Chris Salazar, Digital Field Editor; Ally Schauer, Intern; Jane Sharpe, Senior Designer; Shannon Oelrich, Proofreader TexasCoopPower.com February 2020 Texas Co-op Power 3 Enjoy the Ease of Showering Safely So You Can Stay in the Home You Love! Upgrade your Introducing the bathroom, upgrade ALL NEW your life. With a new Walk-In Shower! walk-in shower, you can make sure your bathroom ages as gracefully as you do. This shower was designed by experts, with you in mind, focusing on safety and convenience when it matters most. 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CSLB 983603 F13000002885 13HV08744300 LETTERS Keeping in Touch I am 84 and rely on good read- Clip–and–Save ing material to keep in touch Recipes with “all.” Seldom have I enjoyed such Being in my 20s, I know that fine articles as your November I am in the minority of issue. I began with interesting Letters, then the woman behind your readership, but that also Wreaths Across America and makes me the future of your the magnificent photos accom- panying the one-of-a-kind readership. I read your articles artists. Then comes my favorite monthly, but I only ever save the recipes, just like my mother and my mother’s subject—history. BRENNA QUEBBEMANN | BLANCO mother before her. I clip them out and keep them in my homemade recipe PEDERNALES EC AND CECA book/binder/scrapbook. Startling Conclusion The star on the coin looks KASEY MENN | BRYAN | BRYAN TEXAS UTILITIES nothing like the lone star on the flag [A Star Is Born, Decem- ber 2019]. There were stars for centuries on flags, shields and success for rural electrification In October, the McQueeney emblems of nations. Our Texas nationwide [Nixon’s Attack on VFD was the recipient of a founding fathers . considered Co-ops, December 2019]. Pic- Power-Up Grant of $20,000 Texas a “lone star”—alone as a tured behind Nixon was REA for the purchase of lifesaving region fighting the tyrannical administrator Dave Hamil, a extrication equipment. This is dictatorship of Santa Anna. dear friend of mine. one of the many ways in which To try to stretch so far to Hamil almost single-handedly GVEC has helped our depart- connect these patriots to an organized national leadership ment to better serve our com- insignificant star on a coin to save co-ops. Nixon was munity. minted in 1817 is a thin pre- forced to sign legislation that MARILYN MARSHALL | NEW BRAUNFELS sumption and certainly not restored federally funded loans GUADALUPE VALLEY EC clear. The Long Expedition in and even greater financial 1819, usually given credibility health to co-ops. for being the first image of BILL MULDOON | KERRVILLE the lone star, is proven history. the past 17 years using the milk CENTRAL TEXAS EC GET MORE TCP AT COY PRATHER | MONTALBA from our award-winning Nubian TexasCoopPower.com TRINITY VALLEY EC dairy goats. Co-ops and VFDs Sign up for our e-newsletter for CAROLINE LAWSON | VIA FACEBOOK I applaud your recognition of monthly updates, prize drawings Made in Texas NAVASOTA VALLEY EC the critical importance and and more! It is great that you are cele- needs of volunteer fire depart- brating the makers in our areas Ryan Drapela [above] is an ments in the communities they We want to hear from you! [In the Making, November 2019]. awesome young man. He works serve [Putting Others First, ONLINE: TexasCoopPower.com/share Nice photos and nice story. hard to be the best craftsman October 2019]. There are EMAIL: [email protected] TRAVIS FROEHLICH | BASTROP he can be. several volunteer fire depart- MAIL: Editor, Texas Co-op Power, BLUEBONNET EC MARK WOODS | VIA FACEBOOK ments served by our local 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, Austin, TX 78701 co-op, Guadalupe Valley Please include your town and electric co-op. So many of us artisans here Hamil to the Rescue Electric Cooperative, including Letters may be edited for clarity and length. in Texas! . My husband and President Richard Nixon’s fail- the McQueeney Volunteer I have been making soap for ure to thwart REA was a huge Fire Department. D FE Texas Co-op Power TEXAS CO-OP POWER VOLUME 76, NUMBER 8 (USPS 540-560). Texas Co-op Power is published monthly by Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC). Periodical postage paid at Austin, TX, and at additional offices. TEC is the statewide association representing 75 electric cooperatives. Texas Co-op Power’s website is TexasCoopPower.com. Call (512) 454-0311 or email [email protected]. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE is $4.20 per year for individual members of subscribing cooperatives and is paid from equity accruing to the member. If you are not a member of a subscribing cooperative, you can purchase an annual subscription at the nonmember rate of $7.50. Individual copies and back issues are available for $3 each. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Texas Co-op Power (USPS 540-560), 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, Austin, TX 78701. Please enclose label from this copy of Texas Co-op Power showing old address and key numbers. ADVERTISING: Advertisers interested in buying display ad space in Texas Co-op Power and/or in our 30 sister publications in other states, contact Elaine Sproull at (512) 486-6251. Advertisements in Texas Co-op Power are paid solicitations. The publisher neither endorses nor guarantees in any manner any product or company included in this publication. Product sat- isfaction and delivery responsibility lie solely with the advertiser. © Copyright 2020 Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. Reproduction of this issue or any portion of it is expressly prohib- RECIPES: JODY HORTON. DRAPELA: itedJULIA ROBINSON without written permission. Willie Wiredhand © Copyright 2020 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. TexasCoopPower.com February 2020 Texas Co-op Power 5 CURRENTS M A R K YO U R CALENDAR PIONEERING M.D. National Women Physicians Day is February 3. The date marks the birthday of Elizabeth Blackwell in 1821.
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