December 1, 2022 - Clara Murphy will present her Christmas Piano Recital Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7pm at First Baptist Church, San Augustine, Texas.
Participating students are: Joy Bailey, Lake McDaniel, Bonnie Consford, Grace McReynolds, Makenna Tanner, Rylie Todd, Brooklyn Elliott and Braeleigh Elliott.
October 31, 2022 - Jobs were hard to find in 1958, the year I was married. I was classified “1A” by the Selective Service System, which meant that I was facing being drafted into the army. No company wanted to hire me, only to have me leave within a year. After spending three months in the Golden Triangle area of Beaumont, Orange, and Port Arthur without finding work, my new bride and I decided to move back home and await the inevitable “Greetings” letter from Uncle Sam.
October 21, 2022 - If you are like me you have heard this phrase most of your life, but probably not thought much about it. On the surface it appears to have a finality about it as it can be translated “that’s all there is”, or “it’s finished”, or “it’s over”, or “there’s no more”.
October 7, 2022 - Everyone has received one from a large company at one time or another. They are very easy to identify for they have certain characteristics regardless of the topic.
I recently complained to my cable TV company because the signal was constantly going out. In fact, cable service was down for three consecutive days. Based upon the monthly premium that I pay for this service, it should be mirror-clear 100% of the time.
September 21, 2022 - Around 1965 a new store opened in the Meyerland area of Houston, Texas near where we lived. It was a new kind of store, a forerunner of K-Mart or Wal-Mart. It was a “Sage” store, massive in size, and contained most anything any shopper would need. The only thing different was that you had to “join” the club in order to shop there. I recall the price was somewhere around $15.00 per year for the privilege to shop, and you had to show your ID card in order to enter.
September 1, 2022 - I still have a scar on my left knee caused by a football injury, although I was not playing football at the time. How could that have happened, you may ask. Well, here’s how.
When my son, Doug, was around eight years old in the late 1960s, he enrolled in the F.U.N. football league in Houston, Texas. There were a number of different teams and Doug ended up on the Cougars team. The boys played their games in a very nice football stadium which resembled a smaller version of Rice University stadium.
August 5, 2022 - It seems that the cost of going to elementary school in going up in a big way. I note that parents of these young students receive a list of necessary items the student will need from the school just to get started on day one of classes. One harried mother told me that the items cost her almost one hundred dollars from a major discount store for her third grade son.
From left: Neal and Clara Murphy, former student Bethany Dorsey, Charlisa Texagle, Grace McReynolds, Bonnie Consford, Lake McDaniel, Makenna Tanner, and Rylie Todd.
June 17, 2022 - They have just about disappeared from the scene, but at one time every household had one or more of them. In the days before indoor plumbing, homes had water wells located near the back porch of the home. Drinking water was a bucket of clear, cool, well water freshly drawn by a bucket from the well.
June 6, 2022 - Clara Murphy will present her students in a piano recital on Thursday, June 16, 2022 at First Baptist Church, San Augustine at 7pm. These students will participate: Lake McDaniel, Makenna Tanner, Rylie Todd, Grace McReynolds, Bonnie Consford and Charlisa Teagle. Please come and encourage these students in their musical education.
