Telling the stories of Texas with photographs (and words too...)
What Happened to the Texas Synod?
Yesterday reader David Ernst asked (in the comments of my Facebook post about the brief history of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Rabbsville, Texas) what happened to the Texas Synod, and if any congregations that belonged to the Texas Synod Read More …
And a time to sew together…
The members of Rev. Kilian’s congregation who broke away and formed the first St. Peter’s Lutheran Church (see “A time to tear apart…” for more details) styled themselves as “the little flock” in their letter to the church council of the congregation Read More …
Trinity Lutheran Church – Old Dime Box, Texas
One hundred and twenty years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, Lutherans in and around Dime Box organized Trinity Lutheran Church. For forty-two years, the congregation met in a repurposed home followed by two different school buildings. Read More …
Union Pacific in Dime Box, Texas
Way back in 1913, the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks through this part of Lee County, though at the time no town existed here. Gradually folks from Dime Box, three miles to the northwest, began to relocate here to take Read More …
Dime Box Station aka Joe Vavra’s Service Station
A few weeks back when I posted my photo of the Dime Box Service Station from my trip to Dime Box in early 2016 (along with accompanying information about the March of Dimes broadcast), Sharon Biehle mentioned (on my Facebook Read More …
A time to tear apart…
Usually it’s a good thing when we open up our mailbox and find a letter inside (I mean of the personal variety, not the prequalified credit card offers and other junk that make up the bulk of correspondence we receive Read More …
How Folks From Dime Box and Thorndale Changed My Life
My wife, Margie, taught at St. Paul Lutheran School in Austin for sixteen years until the school closed at the end of the 2016-17 academic year. For several years (and up until the school closed), the chairman of the school Read More …
David Mighell Pacey+ (January 29, 1952 – June 20, 2019)
A few years ago, Margie’s father, David Pacey, started to paint again after not doing so for many years. That Christmas he gave me a painting he made of the exterior of The Rock Church (the old St. Olaf’s Lutheran Read More …
The Southern Pacific (indirectly) moved Dime Box…
The original site of Dime Box (now Old Dime Box) is on SH 21, which roughly follows the path of the Old San Antonio Road through Lee County. After the Southern Pacific ran tracks a few miles to the southeast Read More …
How Quilts Saved the March of Dimes Broadcast in Dime Box, Texas
When the CBS crew was shown to the SPJST Hall in Dime Box to set up for the kickoff of the 1944 March of Dimes campaign, they quickly realized they had a problem. The floor of the stage was wooden, Read More …