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Even as it 35 Recipes weakens with age, it towers above neighboring trees and visitors Blessed by Cake such as writer Suzanne Halko. 39 Focus on Texas Family 40 Around Texas List of Local Events 42 Hit the Road Historical Markers By Clay Coppedge ONLINE FEATURES TexasCoopPower.com Tall Tales Get acquainted with some of the state’s Texas USA The Quarter Horse Lineage 8 legendary trees with wondrous stories to tell By Martha Deeringer By Suzanne Halko Observations The Case for Happy Endings Texas Reads We introduce six books by Texas authors By Juddi Morris 14 that offer adventure, inspiration and edible delights Around Texas The Harvest Moon Regatta, October 9–12, is a sailboat race that begins at Galveston and finishes at Port Aransas, page 40. 33 39 35 42 TREE: JAMIE BAKER, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT. BOAT: IMAGE COPYRIGHT FLORIN OPREA, USED UNDER LICENSE FROM SHUTTERSTOCK.COM ON THE COVER The Ben Milam Cypress overlooks the San Antonio River, as it has since before 1835. 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Haby, a friend of mine, lightbulb, four to turn the ladder. was written up in the Castroville newspaper for coin- (By the way, our granddaughter ing the phrase, “Castroville, Little Alsace of Texas.” He attends Texas A&M University.) had entered a slogan contest and won first place out of 93 entrants. With DAVID PREUSS | ETOILE his $30 prize money, he bought a .22-caliber rifle. DEEP EAST TEXAS EC WALTER MELLER | ABILENE Editor’s note: Sorry, Aggies. We don’t mean to pick on you. Light- bulb jokes target just about every group of people. What are some diers buried at the Historic Fort city of San Antonio deeding part of signed by Clinton L. Smith. The publishable lightbulb jokes that Stockton Cemetery had been rein- the city cemetery to the federal book is in sad shape, but it is more Aggies tell? Enlighten us on our terred at Fort Sam Houston government. This small cemetery than 80 years old. Facebook page. National Cemetery in 1888. I believe on the east side of San Antonio is HAROLD LIECK | DEL VALLE that they are at the San Antonio very interesting. BLUEBONNET EC Fort Stockton Cemetery National Cemetery. DELLA SAVAGE | SAN ANTONIO The Hit the Road story “Fort Stock- San Antonio National Cemetery PROFESSIONAL TOUR GUIDE ASSOCIATION OF ton” [July 2014] said that the sol- was established in 1867, with the SAN ANTONIO GET MORE TCP AT Editor’s note: The reader is correct. TexasCoopPower.com The story misstated where soldiers from the Historic Fort Stockton Find more letters online in the Cemetery were reinterred in 1888. Table of Contents. Sign up for our E-Newsletter for Fredericksburg and monthly updates, Native Americans prize drawings Based on the book “The Boy Cap- and more! tives: Life Among the Indians,” Clin- Educational Resource ton L. and Jefferson D. 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Willie Wiredhand © Copyright 2014 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. TexasCoopPower.com October 2014 Texas Co-op Power 5 CURRENTS Energy, innovation, people, places and events in Texas CO-OPS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO KNEW? Garland Gets Rescued Grand Achievement Garland the cat had been stuck in a tree for 48 The University of Houston was the hours when owner Tess Haranda called her first football team in NCAA history electric cooperative for help. to rack up more than 1,000 yards of The Flower Mound resident explained to a offense when it clobbered Southern CoServ Electric customer service representa- Methodist University 95–21 on Octo- tive that her cat had dashed 30 feet up a tree ber 21, 1989. during a storm and would not come down. The UH Cougars had everything “In nearly 30 years with CoServ, I’d never going for them: Coach Jack Pardee’s heard of such a request,” said Debby Ishee, a explosive run-and-shoot offense CoServ manager, who contacted dispatch to and a quarterback, Andre Ware, check crews’ availability. who would go on to win the Heis- Linemen Chad Marshall and Andrew Pierce man Trophy that season. agreed to stop by Haranda’s house on their way The SMU Mustangs had nothing back from a service call. Once on the scene with going for them. They had been a bucket truck, the men had Garland the cat on banned from playing football for the ground within minutes. the 1987 season because of egre- “Thank you CoServ for saving my kitten gious rules violations and chose not today,” Haranda wrote on Facebook.