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Albert Painton’s “Plantation”

I’ve been doing a bit of newspaper archive “treasure hunting” lately and I stumbled upon an article of particular interest to me. The article appeared in the January 3, 1950 St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper on page 3 and titled “He Built His Own Refuge for Wildlife: Albert Painton Who Turned Swamp into Rich Plantation, SetContinue reading “Albert Painton’s “Plantation””

A Tribute to Paulette Jiles

According to the San Antonio Report published on July 11, 2025: “Paulette Jiles, an award-winning and best-selling novelist and poet who spent the last 30-plus years living and writing in San Antonio and in the Texas Hill Country, died on July 8. She was 82. Jiles said in her blog that she had been recently diagnosed withContinue reading “A Tribute to Paulette Jiles”