March 2023 – Phil Cline

Farmersville Tales – Part Four

March 26, 2023 by philcline in Blog / Essays / Literary Writings

“Ain’t Talkin’ To No Law” The drunk was staggering around the parking lot of the old Frontier Club, yelling, cussing, waving a knife. His outfit was dapper enough. Saturday night “going to town” clothes. Clean, almost new Levis, white shirt, open collar, clean shaven, hair pomaded and combed although right then it was sticking out on one side. […]

Farmersville Tales – Part 3

March 19, 2023 by philcline in Blog / Essays / Literary Writings

Mrs. Beaver’s Store She was a tiny lady of indeterminate age, but to a kid of six or seven, she was an old lady. She was thin, stringy, her skin loose like the old dress that hung on her frame, its color like her complexion, washed away years ago. She was the proprietor of a […]

Farmersville Tales-Part 2

March 12, 2023 by philcline in Blog / Essays

Old Men Walking Every morning there was a parade across town. This parade had no floats, no marching bands, no banners, no cheerleaders, no clowns tossing candy from miniature cars. The parade was of old men walking. Sometimes the old men walked alone, other times they marched in twos and threes. You could see them gesturing with […]

Farmersville Tales

March 6, 2023 by philcline in Blog / Essays / Uncategorized

Farmersville Tales Introduction I grew up in Farmersville. This series of essays, largely memories and impressions of my youth, span, roughly, the years 1950 to 1965 a period during which I, and Farmersville (finally incorporated in 1960) came of age. These are my stories. And the stories of a special people. My people. Many were migrants who moved west […]

Month: March 2023

Farmersville Tales – Part Four

Farmersville Tales – Part 3

Farmersville Tales-Part 2

Farmersville Tales