Images In the Pines: Photographic and Poetic Essays of Life In East Texas

By Barry Gray and Mike Meek

Images in the Pines is more than a book of photographs and poems. It is a book of memories of life in East Texas in the late 1800s and early 20th Century. Newton County, as this book illustrates, is unique within itself, yet so similar to all of East Texas in its history, its culture and its people. Even if you didn't grow up here, you'll find that these photographs and poems will rekindle memories and images of a simpler time, a time where the pace of life was slower and the world didn't seem so rushed or complicated.
It is the hope of the authors that you will read and re-read these poems and look at the photographs, and each time you do, you will find a new meaning, new insight and inspiration in them. The ideas in this book should be a constant reminder of a part of Texas where the values of home, family, friends, hard work and community are as important today as they were yesterday.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Nov 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483440811

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Images in the Pines

Photographic and Poetic Essays

of Life in East Texas

Barry Gray and Mike Meek

Copyright © 2015 Barry Gray and Mike Meek.

Graphics/Art by Barry Gray

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-4082-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-4081-1 (e)

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 11/13/2015

Contents

Dedications

Acknowledgements

The Virgin Timber Riders

The Last Virgin

The Church

Cemeteries

The Cane Mill

The Homestead

The Implement

School Days

The Tractor

The Swimming Hole

The House

The Gate

The Scale and Pea

The Hanging Tree

The Roses

The Pump

Civility

The Stop

The Steamers

The Old Timers

The First Airplane

The Preacher

The First Passenger Train

The River Sabine

The Meeting

My Travels

Wooden Wheels

Stranded

Lessons Learned

Baptisms

The Family