Big Texas Road Trip Part the Second...? Texas Farms Wind, Oil, and Cotton
Things are getting a bit jumbled in my picture sets, if not my story-line. We saw a lot of Texas highway on this trip. A lot = 1800 miles. This trip was nostalgic to me, bittersweet, and for that reason I'm showing much of Texas in black-and-white. Texas itself doesn't change much. In college I watched a documentary by Bill Moyers on Marshall, Texas . Marshall Texans explained how the Great Depression didn't really affect them, because they were already self-sufficient. My family lived in Deep East Texas , somewhere between Noonday and Teaselville Junction. Marshall was big city. We didn't go exactly through the Piney Woods on this road trip, but still I was tugged at the heart. I could imagine our school bus stopping at these ranch gates with iron arches decorated by walking and flying letters . Mazzy and I woke as planned at 7:00 AM, and then decided that was a terrible idea; we both hit the snooze. When we did get up, we went to AllGood Cafe in D...