Valentine courtship and a 10 year wedding milestone
Eleska Aubespin recounts meeting Sylvester via mutual friends in Melbourne Florida, their yearlong courtship, and a Valentine's Day proposal in 2003 followed by a Cancun wedding five months later. Now nearing ten years of marriage, she reflects on partnership and family as a Sun columnist.
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Today in History and Birthdays for February 2013
Today highlights events from 1866 Jesse James bank robbery to 1945 Dresden bombing and 1960 France’s first atomic test. List of birthdays includes Grant Wood Chuck Yeager Kim Novak Stockard Channing Jerry Springer Henry Rollins Robbie Williams Randy Moss Mena Suvari.
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Jesse James
Dresden
France
Charles Schulz
Grant Wood
Chuck Yeager
Kim Novak
Stockard Channing
Jerry Springer
Henry Rollins
Robbie Williams
Randy Moss
Mena Suvari
Kansas City
Kurt Vonnegut
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country Music Reunion a Delightful Retro TV Moment
Baytown native Chris Buckner recalls watching Country Music Reunion on RFD TV with a lineup of Country Music Hall of Fame stars and host Whisperin Bill Anderson. He contrasts old TV country shows and today’s loud, costly concerts with clearer originals like 16 Tons and Fancy. Buckner notes how older DJs and genuine oldies created the real country sound he prefers.
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Comcast 257
Jack Greene
Little Jimmy Dickens
Grandpa Jones
Kitty Wells
Jeannie Seely
Jan Howard
Rex Allen, Jr
Charlie Rich, Jr
George Hamilton IV
Whisperin
Bill Anderson
Barbi Benton
Porter Waggoner
Dolly Parton
Teddy
Doyley Wilburn
Wilburn Brothers
Dizzy Dean
Pee Wee Reese
Lake Charles
Tammy Wynette
Jimmy Dean
Tennessee Ernie Ford
NBC
Houston
Cincinnati
Georgia
Reba McIntyre
Vicki Lawrence
Mama
Bobbie Gentry
Lynchburg Ferry to Baytown Nature Center Origin
Wanda Orton recounts historian Janet K. Wagner's finding that Nathaniel Lynch launched the Lynchburg Ferry in 1822 from Crystal Bay, Texas, crossing the San Jacinto River to a site near Peggy Lake. The service, later moved upstream in 1829 30, became the state’s oldest continuous ferry and helped shape Baytown area history.
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Lynchburg
Janet K. Wagner
Harris County Historical Commission
Crystal Bay
Baytown Nature Center
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Lynch
San Jacinto River
Houston Ship Channel
Peggy McCormick
Peggy Lake
Missouri
Texas
United States
Clopper
San Felipe
Buffalo Bayou
San Jacinto
McCormick
Lynch’s
Brownwood
Baytown
Talcott Patching
Harris County
Cedar Bayou
Goose Creek
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