Loafing around my kitchen a while back, I created a dish inspired by a recipe from my favorite church cookbook and a now-yellowed, handwritten recipe card, which has to be more than 30 years old. I don’t remember where I obtained the recipe—probably some magazine I read at a doctor’s office from which I scribbled it down onto the back of a banking deposit slip or some other scrap piece of paper I had in my purse at the time.
I have several boxes of handwritten recipes along with actual pages torn from magazines spanning more than 40 years, not to mention a large collection of cooking magazines and cookbooks. Can you relate?
By Sandra Roberts Jones Van Zandt County Genealogical Society
Canton Herald May 25, 1961
Grand Saline Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Parker will celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary Sunday, May 28, at the Anderson Care Home from 2:30 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Rev. Parker is a retired Baptist minister and well known throughout the area and Louisiana. At present he is a member of the Main Street Baptist Church. They are the parents of six children Mrs. Ora Misilvitts and Mrs. Marie West of Wills Point, Mrs. Elta Mae Edwards, Alexandria, Louisiana, Henry and Tommy Parker of Wills Point and Cleborn Parker of Fort Worth.
Kids nowadays don't have a chance to daydream. They always have an iPhone or a smartphone or some other electronic device attached to their hands.
Free-floating ideas don't have a chance. And free thought is where great ideas come from. Do you think Copernicus would be a household word if he'd had a laptop? Or that Einstein would have made a dent in our collective consciousness if he had had access to an Android? Or that Edison would have brought light into our lives if he knew about texting?
Do you remember Bisquick’s impossible pie recipes of the 1970s? These pies were so easy to make because they didn’t have a crust. This crustless-pie concept inspired me to create a pie recipe incorporating all the flavors of a traditional banana split, except I didn’t use strawberry sauce because I didn’t have any on hand. Despite that, it was totally yummy!
Acting County Judge Truett Mayo attorney of Van, was named permanent County Judge Wednesday morning at a called meeting of Van Zandt County’s commissioners court.
Judge Mayo was named to fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge G. D. Staton.
The Van attorney has been serving as County Judge the past two months.
There are some very good programs coming up at the Van Zandt County Library that are about people who lived through trying events of the past. The Van Zandt County Genealogical Society will host performer LaJuanna Faught during its monthly meeting at 2 p.m., April 22, in the Buchanan Room. Faught will present “Susanna Dickinson, Only Woman Survivor of the Alamo.” Faught is a native Texan and has been a performing member of the Texana Living History Association for more than 10 years.
She is a wonderfully animated storyteller who brings a sense of humor to her portrayals that make them a real joy for both young and older audiences.
To find out where you are going, you must know where you are now. To know where you are now, you better be sure where you have been. Sometimes, this requires a little help mapping out your plan.
On June 12, 2006, I used what I learned about map reading to go on the trip of a lifetime and I am still on the road.
By Sandra Roberts Jones Van Zandt County Genealogical Society
April 13, 1961- Unfortunately we do not have a copy of the Canton Herald, April 13, 1961 in our archives.
The following is an apology by this writer for incorrectly transcribing “Remember Pearl Harbor” in a December issue. The original article was written by Mr. Ronnie Chitty for his High School Newspaper, Canton Chatter published on Dec. 8, 1960.
Various snippets from other editions of the Canton Herald will fill this issue and we should be back on tract next week.
