Blackland TX
Field notes
Longer pieces about the six towns and the two counties, written from the record.
- Field Note 005 · Blooming Grove · September 2026The country boy who saw the rifle first
A Dallas homicide detective from Blooming Grove, the Kennedy assassination, and a wall on South Fordyce Street that says so.
- Field Note 004 · Blooming Grove · September 2026The best, and my true friend
A Blooming Grove grocer, two presidents, and the twenty-seven votes he was proudest of.
- Field Note 003 · Blooming Grove · September 2026The teacher who kept the pictures
Thirty-eight years directing the school play, and a filing habit the town's own history book still runs on.
- Field Note 002 · Frost · September 2026The vault held
A tornado took the whole business district on 6 May 1930 — the bank's steel vault, and the twelve men inside it, did not go with it.
- Field Note 001 · Blooming Grove · September 2026A town that kept starting newspapers
Six mastheads since 1888, and only the last one survives whole.