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ETHJ Vol-39 No-2 East Texas Historical Journal Volume 39 Issue 2 Article 1 10-2001 ETHJ Vol-39 No-2 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ethj Part of the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Recommended Citation (2001) "ETHJ Vol-39 No-2," East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. 39 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ethj/vol39/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the History at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in East Texas Historical Journal by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME XXXIX 2001 NUMBER 2 F "'~I , HISTORICAL JOURNAL "..\~'l' n;XAS III~TORICAI.ASSOCIATlO:-' ,_~ II....... 0:.-, '_1_10 T~C....... _ ....... 1. Gonloo _0_ '".':<.1UIIS m, ~,­ -" ~, ,-""-<~ ,-- m, "" ... F 11....... s. " ~ , '­_L C..,_.... 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EAST TEXAS HISTORICAL JOURNAL Volume XXXIX 2001 NUMBER 2 CONTENTS .-'~;7 /1 VILLAGE"~ THE DESERTED -'\ \,'\ / - '-J- ,c::-' 0(' ): by F.E. Abernethy , :~,~;.::::r ~~~_ f-.&' 3 ASIANS IN TEXAS: AN OVERVIEW. 1870-1990 ;'(~,~~;' ,' ,- ,-. ': - -c.~ by Bruce A. Glasrud l~~ : ~ ~ \, ~~ 10 THE MAKING OF GEORGE SESSIONS ~~RRY r~~, ~~'~fatJ (i5j _.,::". -" ~:.? by Gurnu L Chnmun Jt1:::'· :, ".:F..::c:f 23 A QUESTION OF LOYALTY. THE CAMPAIGN OF 196tfr? ')" ~~:::)~. AND AMERICAN ~~~~~L:;~SR~OUX ·~.~~~{(~?~~~~~· ~ 32 CULTURE IN COwroWN: THE AMON CARTER MUSEUM by Bart C. Pointer 40 HAROLD TAFr AND THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY SEAL OF APPROYAL: Laying the Foundation for Weather Broadcasting hy J. M. Dempsey .47 ANTEBELLUM PLANTERS: COMMUNlTIES OF KlNSHIP ON THE COTTON FRONTIER by Carolyn Earle Billinftsley 5S B()()K NOTES 75 by Archie P. McDonald BOOK REVIEWS 78 Archie P. McDonald, Executive Director and Editor Mark D. Barringer, Associate Editor STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY P.O. BOX 6223 NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS 75962 936-468-2407 e-mail: [email protected] http://leonardo.sfasu.edu/ethal 2 EAST TEXAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BOOKS REVIEWED Steele, The Family Story ofBonnie and Clyde by Kenneth W. Howell James, Smoky: The Cowhorse by Robert W. Glover Thompson, Vaqueros in Blue and Gray by Arnalda DeLeon Ericson, Some Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys: A Collection ofArticles and Essays by Kyle Childress Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins ofa National Gun Culture by Paul R. Scott GreenelKelly, Through a Night of Horrors: Voices From the 1900 Galveston Storm by Brian P. King Sonnichsen, Ten Texas Feuds by Donna C. West Harter, The Last Colony ofthe Confederacy by Josh Flores Ibcr, Hispanics in the Monnon Zion, 1912-/999 by Son H. Mai Patterson/Poole. Great Plains Cattle Empire: Thatcher Brothers and Associates (1875-/945) by Randy Harshbarger Bixelffurner, Galveston and the 1900 Stann by Craig Wallace Klier, Pavie in the Borderlands: The Joumey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, /829, Including Portions of his Souvenirs atlantiques by Francis Edward Abernethy Powers/Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists: A Biographical Dictionary ~tArti.'its in Texas Before 1942 by Elizabeth Alexander Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders ofTexas and the Southern Plains, 1540- J845 by Daniel 1. Gelo Lester, The Great Galveston Disaster by Donald E. Willett Cline, When The Heavens Frowned by Donald E. Willen Cartwright, Turn Oul the Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s by Mark Daniel Barringer Sitton, The Texas Sherr!!: Lord ofthe Count}' Line by Roger Tuller Dempsey, The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited: The Diary ofForeman Max Causey by Kenneth W. Howell Johansson, Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Correspondence of Theophilus and Harriet Perry. 1862-1864 by Max S. Lale EAST TEXAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 3 THE DESERTED VILLAGE With apologies to Oliver Goldsmith by F.E. Abernethy Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seat of my youth, when every sport could please.. -. I begin with this quotation from Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" (1770) to emphasize the timelessness of my theme, the periodical passing of rural communities. Goldsmith was bemoaning the results of the enclosure movement, a centuries-old process by which the lords and landholders of Britain enclosed great acres of land in which to pasture sheep and grow rich in the burgeoning wool market. Land that for centuries had supported farms and families and small village towns - like Goldsmith's Sweet Auburn - now were the pastures for sheep. And the dispossessed farmers and their families were left to wander the roads and eventually swell the unemployed populations of London and Leeds. And Sweet A l:~lm, the "loveliest village of the plain," was left to decay back into the soi~ ~-_um .vhich it came - like Lilbert and Hooks Switch and Bevilport in East Tt\as. Those that were caught up in the changes of the enclosun;\~TlOvement in the eighteenth centul)' looked back in romantic nostalgia to the swe~t, simpler times of their agrarian youths, before this great social and cultural change that became the distinct drama of their lives. John Henry Kirby, the legendary lumberman of East Texas, looked back with the same Goldsmithian nostalgia on his youth in the Tyler County community of Peach Tree Village, located on the edge of the Neches River bottoms. "What happy days. How they filled the heart with a peace and tranquility never since known or felt ... there were no shylocks, no business brigands lLike John Henry Kirby himself!J, none thriving ... by the fortunes and tears of men and women, or the sale of their souls to vice and infamy." "It was at my mother's knee at Peach Tree Villagc that I learned the story of King Solomon's prayer for wisdom and understanding, and the beauty of the Beatitudes."1 Of course, one could go one step farther back in history, when Peach Tree Village was the home and the "Sweet Auburn" of the Alabama Indians. The Alabamas deserted their Peach Tree Village under the pressures of Manifest Destiny, Anglo settlers, including John Henry Kirby's parents. The Alabamas also must have looked back with romantic nostalgia on their deserted village on the Neches River. FE. Abernethy is SecretaryJTreasurer ofthe Texas Folklore S()ciety. 4 EAST TEXAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Thunted for thirty-five years in Suooydell Pasture, a three-thousand-acre spread of pines and hardwoods in Tyler county. Noah Platt used to reminisce about "the Sunnydell community pasture" when those acres were an unfenced community pasture for the Sunnydel1 settlement. There were no fences then to keep stock within a restricted area. This was "free range" time, when people branded their cattle and notched their hogs and rounded them up when they needed the meat. The fences that were built were to keep stock out of an area, not in. Noah said that he remembered a time in the 19teens when he could stand on a hill in Sunnydell and see houses and plowed fields in all directions. The land was clear of woods then and had been since the railroads had come in the 1880s and the sawmills had cut the virgin pines, except near the bottoms where Big Dry Creek and Little Dry Creek ran. East Texas fanners plowed and planted in ten and twenty acre plots: a field of com (some to sell, most to keep), a planting of cotton (the money crop), several rows of ribbon cane (syrup was a staple), a tobacco patch, a vegetable garden. But the center of it aU was Sunnydell Community itself, which was graced with a church that also served as the school, a slore left over from sawmill times (the store was also the post office), a grist mill, and a stable and blacksmith shop. Sunnydell was the least a settlement could be and still be considered a village, but it was the heart of the world for all those who lived near Billums Creek and Big Dry and Little Dry. And John Sturrock smiled in sweet nostalgia at his thoughts of growing up amidst play parties and brush arbor meetings in Sunnydell of long ago. The deer and armadillos and Good-God woodpeckers live in Sunnydell now, and all that remains is Sunnydell Church and some nailed up tables for the annual homecoming and dinner on the grounds. Communities are as transitory as Hfe. Sunnydell and Peach Tree Village and Sweet Auburn are long gone, swept away by one sort of progress or another. But each village had its time of importance, when it was a necessary part of East Texas commerce.
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