Month: April 2023

Farmersville Tales-Part Nine Of Women My uncle told us boys the story.  He saw it happen.   My mother and father had stopped at a filing station in Farmersville, owned and operated by a family widely known in the community.  The owner was known for careless talk, a “big mouth,” we used to call such men. That day, […]

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Farmersville Tales – Part 8 – Nickel’s (episode two) – The Line During my high school years there was a labor dispute at the store.  The store was union, but negotiations on a new contract between the union (Retail Clerks #1288) and the owners of the store chain floundered.  There was a strike.  It lasted for many months.   […]

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Farmersville Tales-Part Seven Nickel’s (episode one of two)  At age 11, I became employed.  Sweeping the parking lot of Nickel’s Pay-Less Food Market, was not my first job.  Like most kids from Farmersville, I had worked in the fields alongside my parents, grandparents, and siblings. Childcare in the modern sense didn’t exist. You went where your folks […]

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Church Farmersville had a reputation, in the early 1950s, of having the most bars for a town its size in the State.  And the most churches.  As the Sixties approached, Hollywood movies, TV, and popular novels often portrayed churches and people of faith, especially if from the South or Midwest, as stiff, uncompromising, puritan, imbued […]

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Baseball Farmersville had a professional baseball team before any of the surrounding communities.   The team’s baseball park originally stood on the west side of town, where the junior high is now. The team moved elsewhere and by the late fifties and early sixties, the park was increasingly falling into disrepair. The stands were splintered wood […]

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