The Pine Bough
December 2022

Apr 10, 2023   |  Volume 27
December 2022 cover

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.

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Table of Contents: December 2022
Features

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

Sections

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

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