Mom had difficult time understanding me as I explained just how perfect her sterling silver dinner knives were for digging perfect holes in the dirt, digging up the garden's carrots and radishes and replanting them after finding they were not ready for harvest, following a ground squirrel hole or two deeper to see if the squirrel was home, but not much else. That all changed when Dad brought home some real digging implements: Captain Matheny's collection.
Monthly Archives: August 2020
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AROUND SOMERSET Elm Creek, just a couple of miles north to northwest of Somerset, this often dry creek, has in the last century, given residents living near it’s banks floods that have wiped buildings, topsoil, crops, livestock, fences, bridges, and the lives of several people. Our other river-neighbor, the Medina, flooded in 1919 from a hurricane that unexpectedly came through Port Aransas (wiping it out), Rockport, and Corpus Christi. This Medina River flood wiped out our area’s Santissima Trinidad Catholic Church (established in the mid 1800s) and cemetery. A “DAD STORY” ABOUT HIS FIRST FLOOD Another regional river, the Frio River, flooded end of May-June 1935, nearly took this author’s Dad (Jesse Columbus James, aged 12 years old at the time) with is as it […]