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Well, we are still getting everything arranged here at the homestead, but we are a lot closer to being in. No pictures yet, but I thought I would tell you a little bit about where I live.
My little community is Morgan Mill, Texas - just about 12 miles from where my father was born and raised (Bluff Dale) and about 12 miles north of Stephenville - where Ty Murray and Jewel live - or at least they did - we finally get here to the Stephenville area and it is announced on the radio that they are getting divorced
Morgan Mill is a country unincorporated community of about 260 people. It has community center where we are going to have breakffast tomorrow morning and a school built by the WPA in 1941. It is the only school built be the WPA in Texas which has been in continuous use. I like to think of that as sort of an homage to a time when government actually cared about its people and worked for them.
All of the aforementioned localities are in Erath County, Texas. Erath County and this whole region of North Texas was central to the Texas Farmer's Alliance and the Populist movement of the 1880s (my great grandfather, Francis DeLysle Holmes, was the treasurer of the Bluff Dale Lodge of the Farmers Alliance. They used to have meetings at the Tabernacle by the church in Bluff Dale, which coincidentally had been constructed on land donated by my great great grandfather, Andrew Jackson Glen.
There is a winery in Bluff Dale which I intend to visit soon an others in the area. I have even thought of having a small vineyard/winery myself. I intend to call it - and I don't know why nobody has thought of this - The Grapes of Erath - an homage to one of the greatest books and movies of all time. (I mean really, am I the first person to think of that?)
The only way I would be able to do that is to win the lottery or crowd fund it - neither of which is likely to happen
Kali
(55,007 posts)The Grapes of Erath
ashling
(25,771 posts)actually I have 3 labels in mind:
Tom Joad: a hearty wine - floral overtones of Rose of Sharon with a deep earthiness. You'll want to serve this vintage wherever the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses the build.
Ma Joad: A heady and self fortified vintage you will want to serve to your family and friends. The flavor keeps on comin' because it is of the people.
Casy: A light wine with serious questions and radical overtones
You can say stuff like that about wine because nobody knows what all that wine rhetoric means anyway