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The main photo at the top of the page is from the Sabine River, which is the subject of my first book. I'm the writer, and Jacob Croft Botter is the photographer.
Unless we do something to really screw things up, the book might be coming out as early as next year. Yes, we have a contract, and yes, we are full of ourselves.
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Recent-ish Headlines
- “They were fighting in the brush, and I broke it up”
- Ghosts in the trailer park
- Life on the Sabine
- Desperate options
- Baby mama
- The Bigfoot hunter
- Bad air. Blame the trees?
- Old rides, new life
- Longview Transit riders as varied as the routes
- Area mystery mounds delight archaeologists
- A return to 'The Front'
- Virginity rules the sex ed of East Texas
- East Texans recall the Great Depression
- Go north, young town
- The Neches River gets all the love
Category Archives: Outdoors
The Bigfoot hunter
There wasn’t time to fix the propeller, and there wasn’t time for precaution. The party pressed farther into the swamp, because that’s where Bigfoot was. Continue reading
Area mystery mounds delight archaeologists
Locked away and hidden from the nearby town of Longview, largely undisturbed for a thousand years, is an ancient and mysterious place that guards the secrets of a vanished people. It is a sacred place. It is a wide, grassy … Continue reading
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The Neches River gets all the love
From the July edition of County Line Magazine Everybody’s always gushing about the Neches. The river flows through the heart of East Texas, rising in Van Zandt County. The Texas Observer calls it a “superior ecological panorama.” Texas Monthly reports … Continue reading
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Gilmer man can't slither out of this ticket
The only good snake is a dead snake, as Ricky Huey sees it. So when he spied a water moccasin crossing a highway bridge near Gilmer, he pulled over and got out his pellet gun. Continue reading
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Forest giants weather age, development
Many of the biggest trees recorded in the state of Texas are found in the Longview area. Continue reading
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What goes up … must come down the mountain
That’s no problem when you’re like the fun-seekers who brave the trails at Barnwell Mountain. Continue reading
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Otters among us
The playful river critters are gaining numbers in East Texas, and state biologists hope to learn more about their ways. Continue reading
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A dying man's 'holy calling'
Dencil Marsh’s wife calls him a billy goat the way he scrambles over leaf-strewn ledges and through deep, dry washes. Somehow, he said, he never loses his footing. He wanders foot trails through scrubby forest and brush, exploring a patch … Continue reading
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Cicada song
Tiny nymphs hide among the trees of East Texas. But as they grow older, the midsummer night beckons. Continue reading
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On the road with Wes and Scott
Vicious alligators! Death-defying ziplines! Salty buildings! Check out our six-part series of day trips around East Texas — no luggage required. Continue reading
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Emu on the run
A wayward emu is on the loose in northwestern Harrison County after spooking a rancher’s livestock for the past couple of weeks. Continue reading
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