A little more than a month from now, Ol' Case takes to the road once again for more Texas travel. East Texas will be ground zero for this writer's latest excursions.

Tyler will be the place I drop anchor for a few days. I will spend some time in the Rose City and then will visit Jefferson for the first time. The latter has an historic downtown with a few museums and B&Bs. Now, if I had a little more money, I would extend the trip to include a return trip to Nacogdoches....

Historical grievances are many and they run deep. The Blacks, the Mormons, the Mennonites and the Jews have a long history of being persecuted.

The Ku Klux Klan (the "Klan") terrorized black people, Catholics and Jews in the second half of the 19th Century and intermittently through the 20th Century. Similar violence occurred via lynchings. Non-violent but very disturbing and humiliating discrimination such as "Jim Crow" laws, residential and school segregation were...

Being a resident of West Michigan I can certainly share many "I remember when" stories about the area. The one I want to explain is highway traffic. 5-10 years ago there was no rush hour traffic.
By that I mean there was no slow down from the increased traffic in the area.

Today there are several.
Mostly on 131 between Burton and West river drive during the hours of 4-6pm.

It is now common to see traffic slow downs there and near the I 196/I96...