Working their way through a lengthy agenda, the Bonham City Council addressed a long list of concerns of residents who were there to listen or join in the dialogue, but first the city council took a moment to recognize someone who wasn't there in her usual seat Monday evening.
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Since February is the month we observe Valentine's Day and President`s Day, what better way to celebrate than with a fun look at the romances of presidents and first ladies.
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“Flooding is the most common disaster in the U.S. and I urge Fannin County residents to look at the preliminary maps and be familiar with flood risks in their community,” said Tony Russell, FEMA regional administrator. “These maps can help residents make informed decisions about flood insurance and flood protection.”
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Tom Long sits on the hood as Fannin County Commissioner Pat Hilliard pilots a trackmobile across Bois d'Arc Creek bridge east of Bonham. Early records indicate that the first "engine" on the initial 27 miles of track that eventually made its way to Bonham were actually three yoke of oxen that would pull the railroad car uphill. At the top, the oxen were loaded onto the car and it was allowed to "coast" as far as gravity would allow.
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I am at an age when “living on the edge” means sleeping without my orthopedic pillow.


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1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. The Second Red Scare occurred after the Second World War (1939–45), coinciding with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War. The fear was provoked with red-baiting and blacklisting. The Second Red Scare profoundly altered the temper of US society. Its anti-intellectualism contributed to the popularity of anti-communist espionage (My Son John, 1950) and science fiction movies (The Thing From Another World, 1951) with stories and themes of the infiltration, subversion, invasion, and destruction of US society by un–American thought and inhuman beings. Even a baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds, temporarily renamed themselves the “Cincinnati Redlegs” to avoid the money-losing and career-ruining connotations inherent to being ball-playing “Reds” (communists). With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, McCarthy's support and popularity began to fade. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion.
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Annexation would be the cornerstone in a college campus that would be built just over a mile west of Bonham on US 82 on 100 acres donated by Bob (standing) and Kay Carrel expressly for this purpose.
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The Fannin County Master Gardeners’ sixth annual 2010 Garden, Lawn & Home Expo is set for Saturday, March 27 from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Multi Purpose Complex located at 700 FM 87 just west of Bonham, between Hwy 82 and Hwy 56.
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Annie Lee's work has long been a staple in any African American art collection and indeed does grace the collections of Will Smith, Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy to name but a few of her notable collectors. This world premier of Lee's abstract art is a must see and provides an interesting testament to this phase in Lee's artistic career.
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Want to know about an ocean-going mammal that has recovered from near extinction a hundred years ago? Second Saturday at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge will feature Elephant Seals on February 13, when Dr. Steve Goldsmith will present the program, beginning at 10 a.m., in the Audio Visual Classroom at the Refuge. On the same date, youngsters aged 6 – 12 are invited to make gourd birdhouses at the Refuge Visitor Center. Sandra Haynes, Grayson County Master Gardener, will lead the activity as part of the new Second Saturday for Youth.
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Fannin County Farm Bureau is sponsoring a public meeting to cover many of the rules and regulations regarding the use of farm trailers and equipment on public roadways. RSVP by Monday, Feb. 15 by calling the Fannin County Farm Bureau office at 903-583-8535.
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1692 – A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, lapses in due process, and governmental intrusion on individual liberties. Despite being generally known as the "Salem" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. At least five more of the accused died in prison. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Village, but also in Ipswich, Boston and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man (Giles Corey) who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. The cause of the symptoms of those who claimed affliction continues to be a subject of interest. Various medical and psychological explanations for the observed symptoms have been explored by researchers, including psychological hysteria in response to Indian attacks, convulsive ergotism caused by eating rye bread made from grain infected by the fungus Claviceps purpurea (which is the natural substance from which LSD is derived), an epidemic of bird-borne encephalitis lethargica, and sleep paralysis to explain the nighttime attacks alleged by some of the accusers. Other modern academic historians are less inclined to believe that the cause for the behavior was biological, exploring instead motivations of jealousy, spite and a need for attention to explain behavior they contend was simply acting. Extermination of a Witch by Thompkins H. Matteson
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