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Wyalucing  

Ironies of Her Cast and Her Caste  

By  Lad Moore  

As a courting teenager in Marshall Texas, I admittedly had more earthly items to attend  to than to contemplate Ms. Inez Hughes’ meanderings concerning Marshall’s “Seven  Hills” and the crumbling old plantation house she called “Wyalucing.” Although neither  of the topics were subjects of any of her formal classroom lessons, this powerful teacher  stirred enough interest to cause me to pause and wonder when I sometimes passed by the  structure—a wonder slowly tainted as the years carved away more of its life.  

This summer, at an estate sale, my wife purchased a chafed and soiled hardback volume  of Coleridge and Keats’ poetry, a first edition dating to1850. On the inside cover, in that  classic flowing-hand script of the time, is an inscription that reads “Wyalusing Library  Texas.” (Wyalucing is sometimes spelled Wyalusing.) I am far from a historian, and I  am often given to fiction; but the book’s inscription stirred me to do a bit of digging.  

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Not often elaborated upon in historical reflections of our city and heritage, for a time  there stood a magnificent plantation home and associated buildings atop one of those  Seven Hills of Marshall. Having stiffly soldiered columns on all four sides, the once 

grand structure stood in full command of its surrounds—those regimented groves of tall  magnolias that today are not even stumps. All evidence of what stood there is gone now,  a casualty of bulldozers growling out the excuses we call progress. Wyalucing’s demise  

came in the early 1960’s after local historians and otherwise-responsible city leaders  passed on her preservation. Perhaps funding, perhaps other pressures were at work, but  the reasons for that sin can never be made clear to me.  

Milady’s queenly body now interred, her statuesque form and oft-lusted fragrance can  now be summoned up in but lame imagination. —Lords 

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We know that the brick Georgian-style plantation home, a second smaller house, and  rows of slave cabins were built ca.1850 on a 100-acre tract at the terminus of today’s  West Burleson Street. It was constructed by the owned slaves of Beverly Lafayette  Holcombe, who migrated to the area from Tennessee. The name Wyalucing is said to be  an Indian word for “Home of the Friendless.” In its early time in Marshall, Wyalucing  hosted many antebellum social gatherings of the wealthy and prominent. A daughter of  the family, Lucy Holcombe (1832-1899), is credited with having introduced iced tea and  silk stockings to the area. She was said to be a most striking beauty, a true Southern 

Belle. It was a time when the Belle title was often heard in the same sentence when  addressing a plantation master as Colonel.  

In 1858 Lucy Holcombe agreed to marry a Congressman from South Carolina named  F.W. Pickens, a man she had been introduced to while at White Sulphur Springs,  Virginia in 1856. He was twenty-seven years her senior, and courted her relentlessly  despite her avowed lack of interest in him. Pickens wrote her, “Forgive me, forgive me it. I tremble for I love you madly, wildly, blindly …” Then, in a sudden reversal, she  accepted his proposal. Some say it was an opportunistic reaction, contingent upon his  acceptance of a foreign diplomatic post offered by President James Buchanan. A lavish  wedding ceremony was held at Wyalucing on April 25 of that year. The town’s leading  citizens entertained the couple the following evening with a reception at the Adkins  House, the largest place in Marshall.  

There is good reason to believe that Pickens wanted to do everything he could to please  his Lucy, so he accepted the post and was officially named as Ambassador to Russia. (He  had refused earlier offers of ambassadorships to France and England.) After lengthy  travel stays in London and Paris, the couple and two of their favorite slaves arrived in  Russia. Under the watchful eye of her husband she attracted much attention from Czar  Alexander II, thirty-eight and restless, and whose passion for his wife was fading. He was  good-natured, charming, and attractive, but also a bit timid and sensitive. His interest in  Lucy assured her the entire court’s attention. He singled her out for dances, called her to  stand above the ballroom on the platform reserved for the royal family and insisted they  converse in French. The young Mrs. Pickens so charmed the czar that she was soon  moved into the Winter Palace at the Romanoff Court. Lucy’s child was born in 1859 at  the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg and given the Russian nickname “Douschka,”  meaning “Little Darling,” The Tsar and Tsaritsa became the girl’s godparents. Whispers  even hint that her daughter was the czar’s child.  

Fearing a troubled future for slavery, the Pickens family returned to South Carolina in  1860. Three days before formal secession, the legislature appointed Pickens as the  Confederate Governor of South Carolina. Lucy was the perfect first-lady—a declared  supporter of slavery and secession. She was known as the Queen of the Confederacy and  was the only woman to have her portrait on CSA currency, adorning the One and One Hundred Confederate bills, as well as the Thousand-Dollar CSA Loan Certificate. 

During the war Wyalucing played an official role in the CSA, serving as the Trans Mississippi Confederate Post Office. It was also the site of an important meeting of top  CSA generals. With the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, the CSA dominos fell unit-by unit moving east to west. The more reluctant commanders of the Texas & Louisiana  fields all assembled at the Plantation for a meeting to decide how best to also surrender.  These men, all under the command of General Edmund ‘Kirby’ Smith, included Generals  Buckner, Walker, Hawthorne and their staffs, as well as the more upstart General J.O.  Shelby of “Iron Cavalry Brigade” fame. Shelby’s command had celebrated many  successes in the Arkansas-Missouri theater skirmishes and in particular the 1500-mile,  42-day Missouri assault. In that campaign, over one thousand of the enemy were slain,  seven garrisons captured, and over $2 million of enemy supplies destroyed. He was given  the rank of General in 1863 at only age thirty-two.  

At the Wyalucing meeting the group performed something of a coup d’état. They forced  General Smith to resign and placed General Buckner in command, with a plan to  assemble their forces in the interior of Texas and carry on the war until they were all  defeated in battle.  

This plan immediately fell apart. General Buckner was quickly captured and surrendered  his troops in Louisiana before he could even assume the new command. General Smith  then surrendered on board a ship in Galveston harbor. Smith’s last order was to send a  courier to General J.O. Shelby informing him to lay down his arms and surrender his Iron  Brigade immediately to the nearest union force. The furious Shelby instead rallied his  men and offered them an alternative to surrender. From the balcony of Wyalucing, in an  impassioned speech to his assembled command, he said, “Boys, the war is over and you  can go home. I for one will not. Across the Rio Grande lies Mexico. Who will follow me  there?” With this plea he won over most of the men present. Known famously as the  Shelby Expedition, the men marched with shoulder arms and cannons to Eagle Pass, with  prominent persons joining them along the way. While crossing the Rio Grande at Piedras  Negras, they sank their Confederate guidon in the river, in what came to be known as the  “Grave of the Confederacy Incident.” 

Once in Mexico, Shelby offered his followers and fighting services to the French installed Emperor Maximilian. Although grateful, his offer was turned away and the  group was allowed to remain in Mexico as immigrant settlers. His men now disbanded,  Shelby himself occupied the hacienda of Santa Anna and began business as a freight  contractor. He moved to Tuxpan in the fall of 1866, left Mexico the next year, and  returned to Missouri, where he died in 1897 at the age of sixty-seven.    

At Wyalucing in 1881, there occurred an event of remarkable irony. The plantation home,  originally built entirely with slave labor, was purchased by some of the same and other  former slaves of Harrison County. The home was to be the anchor for Bishop College, an  institution slated to include a high school and college to serve black Baptists. It was  founded by the Baptist Home Mission Society, the inspiration of one Nathan Bishop.  Construction of additional buildings and development of the campus soon began, and  Wyalucing became the residence of the first president of the new school.  

The home later served as Bishop’s Administration Building, and by 1940 Wyalucing had  been renamed the C.H. Maxon Music Hall. Some necessary renovation was done to the  second floor to provide for piano practice classrooms. It remained the centerpiece for  Bishop College until that school relocated to Dallas in 1961. Subsequent to that move,  All the Bishop buildings were demolished. Majestic Wyalucing fell as well, and the  grounds became home to a low-cost housing development.  

Lucy Holcombe Pickens kept a diary. There is one entry where she remarks about the  death of a friend. Perhaps the line is also fitting had she written it to disdain the  demolition of her former home. It reads,  

“Hard, indeed, must have been the heart that could have looked unmoved on the still  deathbeauty of the form.”  

The original Lucy Holcombe-Pickens /Wyalucing historical marker was moved from the  former plantation site to the north side of the First Presbyterian Church of Marshall,  where it stands today. The site is notable in that the Holcombe family, residing in the  Capitol Hotel while the plantation home was being built, founded that church, and  Beverly Holcombe became its first elder. Lucy Holcombe was received into the  membership of the church in 1853.  

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Admittedly, my treatment is briefly sketched and is a bit untidy. I have yet to find a  single set of documents that unite to tell the story of Wyalucing, its cast, and its caste. So  consider this article a teaser. I am sure that my good friend Ben Grant as well as others  have much more that could be added to a legitimate summary—a summary that deserves  a place among the other keystones that form the over-arch of Marshall and Harrison  County’s celebrated history. 

Fiat Lux “Let There Be Light” – Bishop College’s Motto ~~~~  

Citations and Credits:  

Photo of Wyalucing Plantation home cited as Public Domain  

Texas State Historical Association  

TAMU Commerce Digital Collections  

Bishop College; Historically Black College, By Theodore Bolton  Abbrev: Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens  Titus County Texas History: Guide to Confederate Currency 

The State of Texas Online Publications  

“Lost Plantations of the South” Marc Matrana  

C.C. Bulger Treatise, 1936 (Attested)  

“The Last Confederate General,” Christopher Egar  

“Serving History, Lucy Pickens”  

Handbook of Texas Online  

“First Lady of the South Carolina Confederacy” Emily L. Bull  

Latin-American Studies: Lucy Holcombe Pickens  

Rootsweb ancestry.com  

Afrotexan.com 

Rendition of Wyalucing book inscription contributed by the author, Lad Moore  “Lords” is a pseudonym of the author, Lad Moore  

November 11, 2010

Technology Leader

China Will Replace The United States As The Technology Leader

By Fareed Zakata  – 10/5/2025

Editor’s note:

While America fights a civil war and Trump cuts funding for Advance Technology, China gets its act together and positions itself to become the world’s technology leader.  This editorial by Fareed Zakata should be read by anyone that loves this country.  We better wake up before it is too late.  The time is short.

This is what Fareed said:

In the last decade, the United States has been comforted by the notion that China had lost its way. After 35 years of astonishing growth, Beijing stumbled internally and abroad. Its leaders cracked down on some of the country’s most innovative sectors, from technology to education, driving entrepreneurs into exile or silence. Its warrior diplomacy alienated its neighbors from Australia to Vietnam.

That era is over. China’s leaders have corrected their course. This September, while President Trump accused the UN General Assembly of being hopeless failures and harassed the UN for not hiring him to renovate its headquarters decades ago, President Xi Jinping put forward a global governance initiative to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the UN’s founding. He proposed strengthening the multilateral system along a series of dimensions, positioning Beijing as the constructive, agenda-setting superpower.

As America doubles down on increasingly idiosyncratic protectionism, threatening 100% levies on foreign-made movies, for example, China announced last week that it would no longer take advantage of any special privileges of being a developing country, a major concession sought for decades by free trade advocates. As the US levies crippling tariffs on poor countries in Africa and Asia, China has offered zero tariff-based trade to any least-developed country and some middle-income countries with which it has diplomatic relations, including 53 African nations.

Julian Goertz and Geoffrey Prescott argue in a recent foreign affairs essay that Beijing has shifted from a reactive defensive stance to a more opportunistic and strategic one. Predictable, consistent policies. There was a significant area of competition, of course, in this next year. Here, China has established a commanding lead in several areas.

In green technology, from solar panels to batteries to electric vehicles, Beijing’s dominance is now overwhelming. These act at a geopolitical level, as Beijing offers solar farms, battery plants, and electric buses to nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Bloomberg has tracked 13 critical technologies and found that China now leads in five and is catching up fast in seven.

In one area, Washington still believes it has an unbelief, artificial intelligence. American firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google dominate the race to artificial general intelligence. But few can define precisely the term or explain what it means to win this race. China’s approach to AI is strikingly different from China’s. Chasing AGI, Beijing has emphasized applications and diffusion. It seeks to embed AI into every corner of its economy and society, in logistics, in surveillance, in smart cities, in health care, in drones. This strategy ensures that AI quickly produces real transformation and returns, raising productivity and embeds new technology into daily life.

China has chosen a different model of diffusion, where many American firms are looking at the frontiers of AI. For five days in a row, Chinese companies are releasing OpenAI systems, most prominently Deep-Sea, that can be easily adapted and deployed. It’s an irony that Communist China now embraces open technology platforms, while the U.S. favors closed technology. It could make China’s AI a global standard, especially in the developing world, where governments and firms are eager to achieve customer satisfaction.

Add to this Huawei’s emerging dominance in 6G technology, and it’s quite possible that the technology interface for much of the world will be Chinese, not American. What makes China’s technology strategy particularly formidable is its integration across domains. It is not just building AI models. It is weaving them into hardware, infrastructure, and cities.

Consider robots. Chinese firms are producing humanoid and quadruped machines equipped with rich sensor arrays that allow them to see and think in real environments. Just last year, China installed almost nine times as many industrial robots as the United States. Or take drones, and yes, flying cars. China is building what it calls a low-altitude economy, carving out urban airspace for autonomous aerial vehicles. In Shenzhen, drones already deliver packages. Self-driving cars have begun taking passengers. Again, the advantage is integration. Sensors, AI, hardware, and regulation are aligned to create transformative technology.

Meanwhile, in the United States, government funding for basic science and technology has been slashed. Our best universities are under siege, with the government launching a war to take down Harvard by many measures, the world’s top-ranked research university. While the government is on the verge of shutting down in Washington, the President and Secretary of Defense summoned hundreds of the country’s top generals to lecture them on staying slim and fighting woke ideologies. We need to get serious.

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Texas Sounds

Texas Sounds – East Texas’ Most Unique Music Festival

The most unique music festival in East Texas is also East Texas’ most well-kept secret. Not many people that I talk to know about this festival. Perhaps it is because the name of the festival is so long that they go to sleep while reading the name. This is their loss. They are missing  a very unique experience.

The Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards have been operating in East Texas since 2012. During those years, Texas Sound has attracted the very best country musicians from 36 nations.

This year’s show features artists from 15 nations. The show offers three nights of music with all-new shows each night. The show opens on October 2nd at Memorial City Hall Performance Center in Marshall, Texas.

Don’t miss this truly unique event.  Go to the Texas Sound website to get more information and see videos of this year’s artists..

See you at the show.

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World Order

China Will Replace The United States As The Next Superpower

On September 1, 2025, I wrote an article titled: “America First; America Alone”.  https://iexposed.blog/2025/09/01/america-first-america-alone/

I opened with:

In 2022 I wrote an article that suggested that the United States of America was on a downward glide path and was destined to become a second tier country like France and the UK.  I saw China as the next world’s superpower.  I saw this happening in the next 50 to 100 years.

Today I still think the US will become a second tier nation but since Trump 2.0 took the stage, I now believe China will be the next superpower in less than 20 years.

I recently started listening to a new book titled “Breakneck: China’s Quest To Engineer The Future” by Dan Wang.  I have only listened to the first two chapters but it provides specifics on why America’s future is not bright.  It is not a story about politics.  It’s a story about China’s characteristics and the US’s characteristics and why they put China in a stronger position. 

I think everyone 25-50 years old should read this book because they will live through the transition.   Old people, like me, will also find it interesting.

I am closing by reprinting the first few paragraphs:

Silicon Valley can be an amazingly drab place. The peninsula south of San Francisco has natural beauty with rolling hills and coastal views, but you strain to see them beyond so many corporate parking lots. Mountain View and Menlo Park are bizarrely full of rug shops, so when I walk through the towns that host the headquarters of AI leaders and some of the richest companies in the world, I often find myself wondering, is this the beating heart of our technologically accelerating civilization?

Each time I flew from California to Hong Kong or Shanghai, I felt almost unnerved to encounter functional infrastructure. Going from the airport into a subway, rather than an Uber, is an outstanding way to be welcomed to Asia. I would take a moment to savor a clean station, brightly lit, with trains running every few minutes, which would drop me off at a downtown filled with vibrant commercial areas, another feature that San Francisco lacks.

Life in the Bay Area, an economic dynamo in America’s richest state, can feel awfully dysfunctional. San Francisco has been unable to serve its homeless population, and even many wealthy people have to keep a generator for their extraordinarily expensive houses because the state can’t keep the lights on. The contradiction of the Bay Area, this red-hot center of corporate value creation that is surrounded by dysfunction, fuels the inquiry of this book.

When I departed from Silicon Valley for China in 2017, it felt clear that the United States had lost something special over the past four decades. While China was building the future, America had become physically static, its innovations mostly bound up in the virtual and financial worlds. Looking at these two countries, I came to realize the inadequacy of twentieth-century labels like capitalist, socialist, or, worst of all, neoliberal. They are no longer up to the task of helping us understand the world, if they ever were.

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Music

Boogie Woogie 2025 Moves Uptown!

The third annual Boogie Woogie Fest will take place at the Memorial City Hall Performance Center on the square in Marshall, Texas on September 26-27. This year’s two-day event will highlight the story of Hubble Ledbetter, known as “Lead Belly,” and his impact on rock and roll. Be sure not to miss the trip to his gravesite. Below is the complete program for the event. See you at the show!

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A 365-Mile Hydrogen Road Trip

September 18, 2024

UT Austin News

Sep 10, 2025  by Elizabeth A. Adams

In 2003, a convoy of hydrogen-fueled vehicles traveled through the Los Angeles area to demonstrate the growth of this next-generation energy technology. The drivers, including hydrogen luminary Alan Lloyd, weren’t sure how it would go. Due to safety concerns about the then-emerging technology, they had to bring along a police escort for the “Rally Thru the Valley.”

Twenty-two years later, another hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle caravan took to the road. This time, it happened in Texas, which is emerging as a global hydrogen hub. A group of students and staff from The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Electromechanics (CEM) drove from Austin to Houston to attend the Hydrogen Technology Expo.

On this occasion, the fleet of Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicles didn’t need a police escort. And the drivers and passengers, which also included Dr. Lloyd in a full-circle moment, weren’t nearly as worried about the 365-mile round trip’s success.

“We drove effortlessly and smoothly along Highway 290,” Lloyd said. “Seeing what we had started 20 years ago in California manifest on Texas roads is satisfying. The drive stirred enthusiasm with the students, staff, and attendees of the expo.”

They even made it back with a quarter tank to spare, averaging the equivalent of 85 miles per gallon.

The trip signifies the steady progress of hydrogen research and marks 20 years of hydrogen innovation at CEM. It shows the tantalizing possibilities of hydrogen vehicles, the efficiency chief among them, and the need to develop infrastructure around them.

“We installed the first permanent hydrogen fueling station in Texas nearly 20 years ago to support R&D at the University,” said Mike Lewis, director of CEM. “Today, we have an upgraded hydrogen R&D facility, known as the Hydrogen ProtoHub, which is providing a proving ground for hydrogen technologies and supporting training and education.”

A First-of-Its-Kind Hydrogen Facility

In April 2024, UT CEM officially opened a first-of-its-kind hydrogen technology facility at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The Hydrogen ProtoHub has on-site hydrogen generation, storage, distribution and a vehicle fueling station. A few days prior to opening the facility, three Toyota Mirais arrived, playing an important role in demonstrating hydrogen fueling for mobility.

Qualified UT staff, students, and project partners operate and use the vehicles daily in their research efforts. Since these are zero-emissions vehicles, the team has slightly decreased its carbon footprints. In the last year, the Mirais have driven more than 25,000 on Texas roads, while averaging 76 miles per gallon equivalent overall.

Lloyd, now a research associate at CEM, was instrumental in arranging the use of the vehicles in Texas as part of the team’s research. Lloyd has a hydrogen resume dating back to 1999 when he was chairman of the California Air Resources Board. He worked closely with organizations like California’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership, of which Toyota was and currently is an industry member.

Like California, Japan was an early adopter of hydrogen integration and is now a global leader in hydrogen technology development. In the early 1990s, Toyota began researching fuel cell electric vehicles, which eventually led to the development of the current-day second-generation Toyota Mirai. The Mirai is an electric vehicle that runs on energy from hydrogen and emits only water vapor, making it a zero-emissions vehicle. “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese.

Road Trip

Since obtaining the vehicles and implementing the fueling dispensers, the CEM hydrogen team has tested the range and fuel economy by traveling to other areas of Texas, including Gonzales, San Antonio, West and Fredericksburg.

The Hydrogen ProtoHub at UT Austin is the only publicly available hydrogen fueling station in Texas. Since Texas does not have a hydrogen fueling station network, the Houston trip carried some risk. Based on the miles per gallon equivalent from the range tests, it’s always been possible to make a roundtrip to Houston or Dallas, but lacking options for refueling along the way still makes for a stressful trip.

“The range anxiety is real, partially caused by the Toyota Mirai displaying a conservative value for miles to empty. However, in our testing and daily operation of the Mirais, we gained confidence in the true range of the vehicles,” said Austin Mabrey, a research engineer at CEM. “We drove conservatively on the way to Houston, consuming less than half a tank of fuel, ensuring plenty of fuel for the return trip to Austin.”

Lewis and Mabrey frequently mulled over the possibility of a road trip to Houston. Their extensive road tests gave them confidence, showing ranges of 400 miles per 5kg of hydrogen were possible. In June, they used the Hydrogen Technology Expo at the NRG Center in Houston as the perfect opportunity to showcase the vehicles and take a field trip with their student interns. 

“We talked about doing such a road trip for over a year, often with hesitancy and doubt, but decided now was the time to prove it could be done, to make it happen,” said Lewis.

Research assistant Grace Childers pulls over for a quick stop at Buc-ee’s during the trip.

CEM Student Research Assistant Grace Childers is a chemical engineering senior who drove one of the cars that day.

For the past several years, Childers has gained hands-on experience at the Hydrogen Protohub with a focus on systems integration with hydrogen production and end-use technologies, including but not limited to hydrogen fueling for fuel cell electric vehicles. Graduating in December, Childers is exploring the possibility of graduate school, while keeping her employment options open.  

“The experience was incredible and really ‘drives’ home my experience working alongside UT-CEM and contributing to their hydrogen research,” Childers said.

The Texas Hydrogen Hub

The trip marks the first time a hydrogen fuel cell caravan has traveled Texas roads. Fuel cell vehicles are rare because of a lack of hydrogen fueling infrastructure across the state.

However, the road to hydrogen integration in Texas is gaining some traction. Recently, the North Central Texas Council of Governments received a federal grant to build out a heavy-duty truck fueling station network in Texas. The HyVelocity Hydrogen Hub, a collaborative project across the Texas Gulf Coast with significant involvement from UT, aims to support a hydrogen fueling station network with its hydrogen production and distribution projects.

“With continued government and industry support, the vision for a hydrogen energy economy in Texas can be driven by continued research and practice at UT,” Lewis said. “As leaders of hydrogen energy systems research, UT can be the example of a sustainable future.”
 

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America First; America Alone

September 1, 2025

America First; America Alone

By Ron Munden 

In 2022 I wrote an article that suggested that the United States of America was on a downward glide path and was destined to become a second tier country like France and the UK.  I saw China as the next world’s superpower.  I saw this happening in the next 50 to 100 years.

Today I still think the US will become a second tier nation but since Trump 2.0 took the stage, I now believe China will be the next superpower in less than 20 years.

Recently I have said that Trump’s “America First” policy should more correctly be called an “America First; America Alone” policy.  I say this because Trump 2.0 has effectively worked to turn our long time friends into enemies and make our long time enemies stronger.

In the last two weeks I have seen that this transition is well underway.  Last week Canada announced that it had signed long term agreements with the European Union and the UK on trade and defense.

This week China has taken a significant step in becoming the next superpower.  It is hosting a summit with Russia, India, and 20 other world leaders.  Here is some of the information about the summit that every American should know.

This information from the first article I read.  The same information is featured in a dozen other publications.  I doubt it made the top 10 on Fox News.  The text in italics is from the article. 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy is upending the globe.

“The house rules of a few countries should not be imposed on others,” Xi told more than 20 world leaders gathering at a two-day summit orchestrated to play-up China’s global leadership and its close and enduring partnership with Russia, as the two neighbors seek to rebalance global power in their favor at the expense of the US and its allies.

“We should leverage the strength of our mega-sized markets and economic complementarity between member states and improve trade and investment facilitation,” the Chinese leader told his guests during opening remarks.

Without naming the United States directly, Xi vowed to oppose “hegemonism,” “Cold War mentality” and “bullying practices” – phrases often deployed by Beijing to criticize Washington.

As Trump alarms nations with his global trade war, withdrawals from international organizations, slashing of foreign aid and threats on social media, Beijing views the US as undermining the international order it worked to build – and sees an opportunity to ramp its own vision as an alternative.

The new system “would replace the outdated Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic models, take into account the interests of the broadest possible range of countries, be truly balanced, and would not allow attempts by some states to ensure their security at the expense of others,” Putin said.

Many of my Republican friends often say if we had not won WWII, we would all be speaking German.

If this country continues to implement the Trump 2.0 policies, I would say “If you want your children to get ahead in the future world order, tell them to learn Chinese. 

“We have met the enemy and it is us.”

Marshall Mill

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Marshall Mill and Elevator

By Ron Munden

Yesterday I drove past the old mill.  The lighting was good and my memories were vivid so I stopped and took a photograph.

My memories go back to 1948.  From the time I was 5 to 9 years old I spent all my summers with my grandparents on their farm on Old Scottsville Highway.  There were no other kids around so I spent all my time with my grandfather.  Every two weeks or so we drove to Marshall Mill and backed up to the loading dock.  

Why, you might ask.

Every year during this period, Mr. Franklin Young, President of the Marshall Bank,  would take three steers  from his farm in Bear Bottom and deliver them to my grandfather’s farm.  My grandfather would feed them until they were ready to “be harvested.”  Mr. Young would take the meat from the two biggest ones and my grandfather would get the meat from the smallest one.  That was our meat supply for the year.

It took lots of bags of grain to fatten up these animals.  My grandfather had an old car, not a truck.  The trunk would only hold two bags of grain.  That lasted a week or two then we had to go back to the Elevator to get more grain.

The grain was mixed with molasses.  I loved the smell of those bags as they were loaded into the back of the car.  The bags were stored in wooden barrels in the barn. Some days I would get a handful of the molasses covered grain from a barrel.  That was was my afternoon snack. 

Needless to say, I have fond memories of the Marshall Mill and Grain Elevator.

Annual Community Veterans Day Program 2024

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Annual Community Veterans Day Program
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Annual Community Veterans Day program in Marshall, Texas

to take place on Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:00am

in Memorial City Hall

All veterans, veteran organizations, and members of the public are cordially invited to the annual Community Veterans Day program in Marshall and Harrison County, Texas which will take place on Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:00am in Memorial City Hall on the Courthouse Square in downtown Marshall (110 East Houston Street).

The program will include speakers and musical tributes to honor the brave service and sacrifice of all veterans. 

Steven Flohr, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.) will serve as Keynote Speaker. Brigadier General Flohr was the 23rd Commander of the White Sands Missile Range, which is the largest military installation in the United States. Prior to this assignment, BG Flohr served as Deputy

Commander of the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

Donald Hocutt, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), who currently serves as Harrison County Veterans Service Officer, will provide an update from the Veterans Service Office.

The Hallsville High School Band, under the direction of Band Director Sherri Morgan, will also play for the program the traditional musical tribute to the military service branches, “Salute to America’s Finest,” along with Our National Anthem and other patriotic music.

Plus, Angela Fitzpatrick, Superintendent of Karnack Independent School District (KISD), and students from the KISD Elegant Queens and Elite Kings, including McKenna Carroll, Cambrea Davidson, Addisyn Valeria, Trayvion Bedgood, Francisco Fuentes, and Denver Warren, will make a special “thank you” presentation to local veterans in attendance.

Also, Tina McGuffin, Executive Director of the Harrison County Historical Museum, along with the HCHM Board and Staff invite all Veterans, Veteran families, active duty Military, and community members to visit the museum’s outstanding permanent exhibition "Service and Sacrifice:  Harrison County at War" located in Memorial City Hall on Monday, from 10am to

4pm.

The permanent exhibition includes historical artifacts, photographs, vintage footage, and other materials from the museum’s military collection which tell the story of how war has impacted our

Marshall and Harrison County community and relates stories about those in Harrison County who have served.

Christina Anderson, chairman of the Annual Veterans Day Committee, shared: “We hope veterans and community members can join us for this special Veterans Day program at Memorial City Hall, so that we, as a community, can convey how profoundly grateful we are to all Veterans, throughout the generations, for their brave service and sacrifice in keeping our beloved nation safe. We honor our Veterans, not just on Veterans Day but every day.”

Those coordinating the event wish to thank the City of Marshall for providing the venue for this year’s program. They also wish to thank The Cammack Family Sullivan Funeral Home in Marshall for the printing of the printed program.

Also, on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, Golden Corral and the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), invite all current U.S. service members, retired military, and veterans to join them for a Free “Thank You” Buffet and Beverage from 4:00pm-Closing for “Military Appreciation Night.”

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