The Pine Bough
December 2022
In this issue of the Pine Bough magazine, readers can learn about philanthropist Katherine Sage Temple and her commitment to helping people and organizations in Texarkana, Diboll, and Pineland, as well as her lifetime commitment to the American Red Cross. The second feature article is about the southern Angelina County communities that were flooded to make way for the Sam Rayburn Reservoir and the impact this had on the land and the people. Scrapbook pages images and stories of the Angelina County Courthouse, other downtown Lufkin buildings, articles about the Klu Klux Klan in Angelina County, the Atkinson Candy Company of Lufkin, and Diboll icons Nita Hurley and JoNell Placker, among other stories.
Katherine Sage Temple: Volunteer, Philanthropist, and "One of Diboll's Greatest Friends"
2
Flooded Memories: Southern Angelina County Communities Lost to Lake Sam Rayburn
10
Angelina County Courthouse and First Christian Church
24
The Angelina Hotel and Manhattan Cafe
26
The Bonner Hotel
28
Cotton Square and Lufkin's Passenger Depots
30
Lufkin Depot Explosion and the Last Passenger Depot in Lufkin
32
Neches River Beer Joint on Stilts
34
The Klu Klux Klan in Angelina County
36
Dozier Street and the Frank Street Underpass
39
Burning Esquire Magazine, 1953
40
Huntington School, 1911
41
Lufkin National Bank
42
Atkinson Candy Company
44
Nita Hurley
46
African American Singing Group from Diboll
47
The Miranda Family
48
JoNell Placker
49
News and Notices
50
