Pie Lady of Baytown Aims to Bake Obama Pie for First Family
Helen Smith known as the Pie Lady continues to bake daily and teach pie making after retirement. She crafted an Obama pie blending sweet potato and pecan flavors and sent a package of clippings and endorsements to First Lady Michelle Obama detailing her offer to visit the White House to teach pie making and share her secret recipe.
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Baytown
Helen Smith
Obama
Wyndham Park
Helen
Smith
Michelle Obama
White House
America
Karen Rios
Washington
Jack Fields
Irish Texan McCormick helped settle San Jacinto Land grant sealed ties to Mexico
Arthur McCormick, an early Irish settler who came to Texas in 1823, obtained a land grant near the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou in 1824. His family joined Stephen F. Austin's colony, and his widow Peggy McCormick later led large cattle herds in Harris County after his death in a boating accident in 1825. The page notes the San Jacinto area's early farming and ranching roots and hints at the 1836 battle's impact.
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St. Patrick’s
San Jacinto
Texas
McCormick
Arthur
Ireland
William Scott
Baytown
Mexico
San Jacinto River
Buffalo Bayou
Stephen F. Austin
Chosen People of
Austin
Arthur McCormick
Promised Land
Margaret
Peggy
Mike
John
James Taylor White
Chambers County
Peggy McCormick
Louisiana
Harris County
Internet phone service Magic Jack review and caveats
The piece weighs pros and cons of Magic Jack as a cheap Internet based phone option. It notes a yearly fee structure and that calls reach recipients without Internet access while warning about reliability if the computer is off and the need to pre register 911 details. It also mentions competing Internet phone services and promotional tactics seen on the company site.
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Baytown Sun
Nicki Evans
Jean Zatopek
Jeanne Smith
Brenda Smith
Orton
Wanda
Aaron
Barbee
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