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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Parade float covered in ribbons, carrying three women in white with white lace parasols.

When the Carnival Comes to Town

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“The working families that lived in Thurber had few watches or clocks for their daily lives were governed by whistles. At the company power plant, engineers scanned clocks with large dials and numbers and sounded the whistles at designated times.” (Thurber Texas; the Life and Death of a Company Coal Town,...