abilenet June 29th, 2007
If you’ve been to the site before, you may notice a significant change in the way these pages look. My reasons for changing are that I believe this blogging format will allow me to add content to the pages more quickly and I hope it allows you, the viewer, to add your own thoughts, information and histories to these web pages. And, I don’t mind saying that I like the look of it better anyhow. You will find all of the information that was available on the old site, at least all of the podcasts. As always, I hope you find these pages informative, interesting and that they draw out of you a desire to learn about and share stories of Abilene and Taylor County, Texas and the surrounding area.
abilenet April 3rd, 2007
In this final episode, part 3 of 3, we will complete our conversation with Don Frazier, professor of History at McMurry University and the Executive Director of the McWhiney Foundation, on the history of Fort Phantom Hill, Texas. This episode also include a poem by Larry Chitenden about Fort Phantom Hill.
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abilenet January 11th, 2007
I have been thinking about this small web site, the blog, the podcast, why anyone would care. Most importantly, why would I want to spend anytime at all working on something like this when I have so many other things going on in my life? It has been very cold here in Abilene for a few weeks now. In Texas time that is equivalent to a year and a half of cold. Its just not something were used to around here. As we move from one cold day to another, I am struck by how difficult the winter of 1878 must have been for those early settlers that attempted to start the town of Eagle Colony, how distressing it must have been to live in the cold of that winter, to watch some of the children die, and to continue on despite the hardships.
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