The history of the Larue community is included in this book. Many of the old businesses are mentioned, along with a story about a bank robbery and a story about the old jail house. Ronald and Carole leave the busy city and raise their five children in the country, in the hills between the communities of Larue, New York and Poynor, Texas. Mr. McClure shares many adventures of his children as they grow up playing on dirt roads, climbing trees, working on their place and on ranches of neighbors. They encounter wild coyotes that attack their dogs and have interesting adventures. Ronald shares...

This is truly a unique collection of over five hundred selected pictures taken in Athens, Texas and in the surrounding Henderson County area, many of them taken over a full century ago, showing the east Texas way of life. "A Pictorial History of Athens and Henderson County" by the Athens Daily Review, "Family Histories of Henderson County" by The Henderson County Historical Commission, the 1970 & 1973 Athens High School Athenian photo album, pictures from my daughter, Rachel McClure Burk's photo album and photographs taken by many facebook friends made this book possible. Newer photographs...

This is a story of a man claiming a town for Christ...walking down every street..."prayer walking," as some call it. After a long hot summer day, Ronald was sitting is his front porch swing thinking about how he was going to spend his summer...wanting to do something a little different from the norm.The barricades had been taken down out on the new loop, so that traffic could drive around the little east Texas town of Athens, for the first time in history, that day. Ronald decided to take a walk. He walked around the loop. After that, he kept right on walking and didn't stop until twenty-six...

Finnis McClure's daughter, Wanda, sat with him, day after day, listening to him tell his life story. She recorded his story on audio tapes and then kept them stored away for some thirty years. Then, one day, she shared the recorded tapes with her nephew, Ronald McClure. Upon seeing historical value, Ronald decided to make a book from them. Finnis' story is shared as he told it to his daughter. Many of the illustrations and pictures came from a scrapbook that Finnis kept while he was in the Navy. This first printing has family pictures in the back.

This is a selected collection of over four hundred pictures and illustrations showing the Texas proud way of life. You will agree that there is no other place quite like Texas. Souvenir from Texas.

This book is a time capsule for the year 2012. This book contains 1,111 grayscale pictures to capture and remember the year.

Share the author's experience as he walks down the streets of Athens, Texas. This book begins with his sixteenth day of walking. Ronald spent hours upon hours in the reference rooms of county libraries researching written accounts on the beginnings of Athens and Henderson County, and his findings have been intertwined into his story in such a way that the history of Athens and Henderson County unfolds as he walks down street after street. Mr. McClure includes many historical facts along with his walk; including folklore that has been around Athens for a very long time, Koon Kreek Klub, a 1920...

God sometimes sends what we may call "circumstances" our way so that we might turn to Him. God is personable, and He deals with each of us in an individual and unique way. A near death experience sometimes reveals God's hand at work, but how do we share such an event with someone so that they can see what we have been through? Prayer and fasting brings results, but how can we share what we have seen? When the world around us falls apart and God reveals himself, how can someone else begin to understand what we have been through? We can see God working even in the little things, but how can we...

Athens, Texas history from a walk...Share the author's experience as he walks down every street in Athens, Texas, meeting hometown folks along the way. Ronald spent hours upon hours in the reference rooms of county libraries researching written accounts on the beginnings of Athens and Henderson County, and his findings have been intertwined into his story in such a way that the history of Athens and Henderson County unfolds as he walks down street after street. The author includes along with his walk; interesting local folklore, the making of the first dirt roads in Athens, the making of the...

Welcome to a history lesson on U.S. politics. This book is a record of the world condition at the end of the year 2012. It consists of grayscale political campaign ads and quotes from presidents and from famous people down through the history of the United States of America. Both liberal and conservative views are presented. The truth may often not be a major factor.