Texas Personalities Local Personalites Texas without Texans is like Antarctica without Penguins - in both cases the landscape would be barren without them. Texans just happen to be a lot more colorful. Texans are often extraordinary personalities masquerading as everyday citizens. TE is devoted to recording the stories of local people who have exhibited the quiet virtue of character.
Journalists are by nature a cynical lot.
And because they've seen humanity at its worst, they have few heroes. One of them died in Tyler last month. I just wish I had been born a little earlier and had the good fortune to get caught stealing chickens or running whiskey through Coleman County. Who knows what good fortune I might enjoy today as the result of helping a youngster feed his pigeons on the jail roof. The Grandfalls Goat Parade Dan Martinets, The Lone Granger.