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33 Texas HistoryWorld War I and Texas By Gene Fowler

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Lured to LulingLolling Around Luling [August2018] aroused our interest, sowe set off to explore Luling!Because it was Labor Day, boththe oil museum and LulingFoundation were closed. We didwalk through the grounds of theZedler Mill. What hidden treas-ures! My husband and I plan onvisiting again so we can discovermore of Luling’s history.

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On Matters of AidAs a Bolivian living in Texas, I was delighted to read that sixelectric cooperatives generouslysupplied electricity to threeunderdeveloped rural villages inBolivia [Bringing Light to Bolivia,Currents, August 2018].

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Very nice that our National RuralUtilities Cooperative FinanceCorporation would donate$35,000 to Bolivian rural electri-fication. I do not begrudge theBolivians, just want to see whatcan be done to help our own.Charity begins at home.JOE ANNE DAIGRE | FRIENDSWOOD

Respect the NameIf you are going to quote afamous Texan, you need to getthe name correct [Heck of aComment, Currents, August2018]. It is David Crocket [sic]not Davey [sic]. Davey camefrom a reporter—see the trendhere—and he hated the nick-name. Please show thedefender of the Alamo therespect he is due.PAMELA BIFFLE | VIA FACEBOOK

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Peace at Last

November 11 marks the 100thanniversary of the end of WorldWar I. The conflict, at the timereferred to as the Great War orthe European War, started in 1914. It ended at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.

About 198,000 Texans served inthe armed forces during the war,and at least 5,170 Texas men andseven female nurses lost their lives.

Read about the extraordinary roleTexas played in launching the U.S.into World War I on April 6, 1917,on Page 33.

Comanche County sent much of its population to fight in World War II,

Garry Steele says, and the community hasn’t forgotten. That’s why, on

NOVEMBER 11, the Comanche County Museum holds its annual VETERANS

DAY LUNCHEON & TRIBUTE at the COMANCHE COMMUNITY CENTER.

“We roll out the red carpet for them,” says Steele, president of the

museum’s board of trustees and a Comanche Electric Cooperative

member. “It’s a somber but very special day.” He says 250–300 veterans

and their families typically attend the event, which is open to the public.

The co-op regularly supports the museum, which has 15 rooms of

historical exhibits and is part of the Texas Forts Trail. “History is so

important, and without the volunteers who work so diligently in these

organizations to preserve our history, it would all be lost,” says Shirley

Dukes, communications specialist at Comanche EC.

INFO a (325) 356-5115, comanchecountytxmuseum.com

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AN OFFBEAT LEGEND

Scott Joplin, called the “King of Ragtime,” was born 150 yearsago near Linden. He grew up in Texarkana before moving toMissouri. Joplin’s music was featured in the 1973 motion picture, The Sting, which won an Academy Award for its filmscore. In 1976, Joplin wasposthumously awarded aPulitzer Prize for Treemonisha,the first grand opera by anAfrican-American. Joplin wasborn November 24, 1868.

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SINCE 1979, Texas co-ops have provided a special opportunity for teens to honormissing service members. Every summer, when Texas sends as many as 150 studentsto Washington, D.C., as part of the Government-in-Action Youth Tour, four are chosen to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony held at the Tomb of theUnknown Solider.

HALLIE RICHARDSON, a senior at Guthrie High School who represented SouthPlains Electric Cooperative on Youth Tour, participated in the ceremony in June.

“It was a big deal for me because it wasmore of a family history thing,” she says.Several of Richardson’s family membersserved in the armed forces, including her great-grandfather, Sgt. Elma LeFevre, who lost a leg during World War II.

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That’s how much garbageeach Texan generates everyday, on average, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. America Recycles Day,November 15, is an oppor-tunity to considering reducing that amount.

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SOCIAL STUDIES

Frisco’s Frenzy

Frisco tops the U.S. Census Bureau’slist of fastest-growing big cities in the nation, adding an average of 37 residents every day for a population jump of 8.2 percent between July 1,2016, and July 1, 2017.

CoServ, the electric cooperative thatserves Frisco, is well aware of the dramatic surge.

“We see the effects of the growth inevery area of our organization—call volume, connects and disconnects, con-struction and work orders,” says DonnieClary, CoServ president and CEO.“However, the growth is very evidentwhen you are sitting in traffic gridlock.”

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Wreaths Across America.

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ELECTION HERSTORY

Two Texas women made history in theNovember elections 100 years ago.

Women obtained the right to vote inTexas primaries earlier in 1918, andthey strongly supported Annie WebbBlanton, a teacher and suffragist, inthe Democratic primary in the race forsuperintendent of public instruction.She went on to win in November,becoming the first woman elected tostatewide office in Texas.

Nellie Gray Robertson of Hood Countywas elected the first female countyattorney in Texas, defeating her maleopponent by a vote of 446-2.

Back row, from left: Hallie Richardson, SouthPlains EC, and Jordan Cochran, North Plains EC.Front row, from left: Caleb Miller, Lighthouse EC, and Riley Carter, Jasper-Newton EC.

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ON A COLD SATURDAY last December, Desirée Gonzales awokeat 5 a.m. and drove to the Sutton County Cemetery in Sonora.Gonzales, along with her mother and brother, loaded dozens ofunwieldy cardboard boxes onto the back of a golf cart anddeposited them in each section of the cemetery.

Gonzales walked each row in the days before, marking on amap each veteran’s headstone. She thought there might be 250,but there turned out to be 322. She checked and double-checkedher list of names against the map of headstones then removedstacks of fragrant wreaths from each box. The goal: one wreath oneach veteran’s grave. Her group of extended family and volun-teers lovingly fluffed the branches of lush balsam and straight-ened the bows of red ribbon. They created a pile of wreaths ineach section of the cemetery, ready for family members or caringstrangers to place on the grave of a veteran.

Gonzales spent the previous three weeks raising close to$5,000 to cover the cost of the wreaths to be placed during theannual Wreaths Across America ceremony. Each wreath costs

$15, and most come from the Worcester Wreath Com-pany in Maine, though someoriginate with other vendors.

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WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA grew out of an effort that started in1992, when Morrill and Karen Worcester of the WorcesterWreath Company in Harrington, Maine, had extra wreaths nearthe end of their busy holiday season. The Worcesters arrangedfor the extra wreaths to be transported to Arlington NationalCemetery and placed on headstones in one of the older sectionsof the cemetery.

The tradition continued each year as the Arlington WreathProject, with the Worcesters systematically adding support-ing organizations. Supporters included a trucking company that hauled thewreaths from Maine to Virginia, as wellas local American Legion and Veteransof Foreign Wars groups that helpedplace the wreaths.

In 2005, a photo of snowboundwreaths at Arlington went viral, andrequests to honor veterans in other stateand national cemeteries poured in fromacross the country. The Worcestersformed the Wreaths Across Americanonprofit in 2007 to help coordinate events and raise funds for the wreaths. Their mission: “Remember, Honor and Teach.”

By 2008, there were ceremonies in every state and 25 ceme-teries overseas. In 2017, 1.6 million wreaths were laid at 1,433cemeteries and memorial sites. Nearly 80,000 volunteers laid245,000 wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery alone.

In Texas last year, 165,000 wreaths were placed on graves at 86 locations.

Clockwise from top: Wreaths Across America local organizer DesiréeGonzales prepares wreaths for the ceremony at Sutton County Ceme-tery in Sonora. Morgan Mathews remembers her best friend from highschool, Shane Folmar, a Marine killed three weeks into his first deploy-ment in Iraq in 2004. DuWayne Castro, left, and Mark Chavez salute aveteran’s grave. From left, Hayes, Luke and Cooper Hopkins helpdeliver wreaths in Sonora.

WEB EXTRASuRead this story on our website to see a map of the 86 Texas sites withWreaths Across America ceremoniesin 2017.

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Fuller invited Debra Coffey into the wreath family last year.Coffey’s father, Air Force Capt. Robert Russell “Bear” Barnett,was shot down during a secret combat mission over Laos in1966, when she was 9. He was declared killed in action, but hisremains were not recovered. Coffey attended a memorial serv-ice with her family at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio butnever felt closure. She always hoped there had been some mis-take and he was still alive somewhere. “I waited for so manyyears for him to show up to my classroom door,” Coffey says. Asshe grew older, she accepted his death, even though his remainshadn’t been returned. “I never thought I would still be alive andable to bring him home to Texas.”

But that changed when Barnett’s remains were identified

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ELLEN FULLER OF BRYAN first encountered Wreaths Across Amer-ica after her father, Navy Capt. Raymond O’Neil, was laid to restat Arlington National Cemetery in 2011. “During that first yearafter a loss, it’s an emotional time—a year of firsts without yourloved one,” Fuller explains. “I heard about the program and said,‘Let’s put a wreath on Dad’s grave!’ Then I wondered, ‘Who arethese kind strangers?’ They were the WAA.”

Fuller started working for the organization in 2015 and last year helped coordinate ceremonies in the participatingcemeteries in Texas. “To be ableto pay it forward as a wreath-sister is why I do what I do,” says Fuller, a customer of BryanTexas Utilities. “My wreath fam-

The Aggie Field of Honor wasone of 86 locations in Texas toparticipate in Wreaths AcrossAmerica in 2017. A Bryan HighSchool Air Force Junior ROTCcadet salutes at a veteran’sgrave, above left.


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and repatriated in 2017. Cof-fey attended a funeral serv-ice with full military honorsat Texas State Cemetery inAustin. Her father was laid torest near the Vietnam Mem-orial.

After hearing Coffey’s storyfrom Texas State Cemetery staff, Fuller contacted her andinvited her to the 2017 WAA event in Austin. “I hadn’t spentChristmas with my father since I was 9 years old,” says Coffey, amember of Pedernales Electric Cooperative.

Groups across the nation began their ceremonies simultane-ously at noon Eastern time December 16 with the nationalanthem. In Austin, Gov. Greg Abbott gave remarks before a

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Clockwise from top: The viralphoto from 2005 showingArlington National Cemetery inWashington, D.C. The openingceremony at Arlington in 2017.Naval officers place and salute awreath at Ivy Green Cemetery inBremerton, Washington.


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13-fold flag ceremony and a 21-gun salute. Coffey presented the ceremonial wreath for the Air Force in remembrance of her father.

In Sonora, Boy Scout Troop 19 raised the American flag, andlocal veterans stepped forward to dedicate a wreath to eachbranch of the armed forces. With a wordless salute, the veteranstook their places behind the wreaths for a moment of silenceand remembrance.

A cold rain began to fall as a high school trumpeter playedtaps, then the 100 or so attendees fanned out across the ceme-tery, saying the name of their veteran aloud as they placed thewreath on the headstone.

Morgan Mathews of Sonora walked with her husband and twoyoung sons to the very back of the cemetery, where her best friendfrom high school is buried. Marine Sgt. Shane Folmar was 21 whenhe was killed three weeks into his first tour in Iraq in 2004.

Mathews placed a wreath on Folmar’s grave and took a photowith other classmates and friends. “You think you’re never goingto forget them, and then sometimes you wake up and realize youhaven’t thought about them at all,” she says. “He gave his all for us.This is a little something we can do for him.”

After lingering a few moments with Folmar’s memory, Mathews walked through the rest of the cemetery with Gonza-les and the volunteers. For veterans with no family in atten-dance, WAA volunteers read the veterans’ names aloud andplaced wreaths at their graves.

DuWayne Castro, chief deputy with the Sutton County Sher-iff’s Department, and Mark Chavez, a member of the SonoraHigh School class of 2018 who left for Marine Corps boot camp

in June, offered a matchingsalute as they finished layingeach wreath. They followedthe map of headstones untilthe last wreath was placed.The cold rain continued.

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At Texas State Cemetery in Austin,Gov. Greg Abbott with family andScouts at Medal of Honor recipi-ents’ graves, below. A family friendplaces a wreath at the grave ofChris Kyle, highly decorated NavySEAL and sniper, right.

her father in Austin, finally home after more than 50 years.“The beauty of those wreaths with the simple green branchesand red ribbons against the white of the headstones is so sym-bolic of hope, of lives lost and the sacrifice of so many lives topreserve the freedom we have,” she says.

“It means so much to myself and my family that the WAAremembers our loved one at Christmastime. It had been somany Christmases gone,” Coffey says. “Just seeing those volun-teers spread out and put those wreaths on headstones—it’s riv-eting. At the end of the ceremony, we didn’t want to leave. Welooked at it for hours.”

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Wreaths Across America takes donations each year to support its annual wreath-laying program. The 2018 event is scheduled for December 15. For $15, you can sponsor a wreath, either in honor of a living veteran or in remembrance of a deceased veteran. There are 111,000active duty and 53,000 reserve service members in Texasand more than 1.5 million veterans living in Texas. Visitwreathsacrossamerica.org by December 3 to participate.

If you would like to arrange a WAA ceremony at a ceme-tery in which a loved one is buried, Ellen Fuller, WAA volunteer co-chair in Texas, can help. “I know how much it means to surviving families and to the next generationto have veterans remembered,” she says. Contact Fuller at (757) 478-4747 or [email protected].

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• U.S.: Cost of buying 1,000 kWh based on national residential average price of $0.1315 per kWh (excluding taxes).

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Kick off the season of giving with a small gift that has big local impact.

This holiday season, give your community a lasting gift by enrolling in our Power of Change program. When you make a simple one-time donation or pledge to round up your electric bill to the nearest dollar each month, PEC turns that spare change into big change for community nonprofits.

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Texas History

“Government Shocked and Amazed.” The banner headline blazed across the

front page of the Palestine Daily Heraldon March 1, 1917. “Revelations of PastTwelve Hours Have Stirred the Capital asNever Before,” read the Sherman DailyDemocrat. In newspapers across Texas,The Associated Press story revealed thediscovery of a telegram sent from ArthurZimmermann, Germany’s foreign minis-ter, to the German ambassador to Mexico,Heinrich von Eckhardt.

The incendiary missive outlined apotential Mexican attack on America.

When Zimmermann sent the codedmessage in January 1917, Germany fearedit would not win World War I. Thetelegram, intercepted and decoded byBritish intelligence, confided that Ger-many would intensify its U-boat warfare,attacking the British naval blockade andmerchant ships of neutral powers.

If that action drew America into the war, Zimmermann instructed, von Eck-hardt should propose an alliance to Mexi-can authorities. If Mexico attacked theUnited States, they reasoned, Americantroops would thus be sent to fight Mexicoinstead of to Europe. If the effort was suc-cessful, Germany promised Mexico it couldreclaim Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

The plan may seem far-fetched today,100 years after the end of World War I, butit’s easy to see why border states, and theentire nation, viewed it with grave concern.Mexico had been embroiled in revolution-ary turmoil since 1910, and sporadic unresthad spilled across the border. Even beforethe telegram, Germans had offered supportto Mexican leaders, including Pancho Villa.

Two months later, Mexican combat-ants attacked the Texas hamlets of Boquil-las and Glenn Springs. President WoodrowWilson, who won re-election in 1916 on

the slogan, “Hekept us out ofwar,” sent ArmyGen. John J. Per-shing and 6,000American troopsinto Mexico inpursuit of Villa.

“Events associated with Mexico over-shadowed the war across the Atlantic onthe front pages of Texas daily newspapersand in the minds of everyday Texans,”wrote historian Patrick L. Cox in the July2001 issue of Southwestern HistoricalQuarterly. News of the Zimmermanntelegram, Cox noted, “hit the streets ofTexas like a political hurricane.”

Historian Michael C. Meyers traced thegenesis of the telegram to a documentknown as the Plan de San Diego. The plancalled for a revolution to begin in thesouthwestern U.S. on February 20, 1915,that would liberate Texas, New Mexico,Arizona and parts of California from U.S.control. “We must not lose sight of Mex-ico,” the Frankfurter Zeitung editorializedApril 15, 1915, “because Mexico willbecome the focus of a gigantic movementof world power.”

As American authorities worked toauthenticate the telegram, Wilson wanted

legislation passed that would arm Ameri-can merchant vessels and authorize theirself-defense. Opponents of the move gen-erally changed their minds after thetelegram’s publication March 1. Isolation-ists also supported the United States’ dec-laration of war April 6, 1917.

The Zimmermann telegram, alongwith Germany’s waging of unrestrictedsubmarine warfare, is often cited as amajor impetus for America’s entry intothe war. But the most recent major workon the storied communiqué, the 2012 bookThe Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence,Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into WorldWar I by military and intelligence histo-rian Thomas Boghardt, contends that theZimmermann telegram was much lessimportant as a motivation to declare warthan the German declaration of open sea-son on American merchant ships.

Still, Austrian native and North Amer-ican immigrant Friedrich Katz, who be-came one of Mexico’s most importanthistorians, said in his 1981 volume, TheSecret War in Mexico: Europe, the UnitedStates, and the Mexican Revolution, theZimmermann telegram “has become oneof the great spy stories of all time,” albeitone that “boomeranged.”

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$1,000 GRAND PRIZESherry’s ShrimpClemenceauSHERRY ZAWADZKI | HEART OF TEXAS EC

“My husband loves shrimp, so I’m constantlylooking for and creating new recipes for him,”Zawadzki says. Her shrimp Clemenceau, a classicNew Orleans and Creole dish, is one of hisfavorites—and this year’s grand prizewinner.Serve it for dinner or as a special brunch (toppedwith a poached egg) with a tomato salad orfresh crudités.

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As long as you’re showing off your cooking mastery between Thanksgiving andChristmas, consider entering your pride and joy in the 2019 Holiday Recipe Contest.The deadline isn’t until June 10, but you can enter now on our website, while thisseason’s rave reviews are still making you smile.

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2 tablespoons (¼ stick) butterPrepared hollandaise sauce, for serving (optional)Lemon wedges, for serving (optional)

1. In a deep pot or electric fryer, heat 2–3 inches of vegetable oil to 360degrees. Adding potatoes in batches, fryuntil golden brown, stirring as necessaryto avoid clumping, about 10–12 minutes.Remove the potatoes with a slottedspoon, allowing excess oil to drain, andtransfer to a plate lined with paper towels.2. Heat the olive oil in a large skilletover medium-high heat. When the oil ishot and shimmering, add the onion andshrimp and season with ¼ teaspoonsalt, ¼ teaspoon pepper and cayenne.Cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add the ham,peas, garlic, potatoes and the remainingsalt and pepper. Cook, stirring, 3 min-utes, then add the butter and cook 1–2additional minutes until the ingredientsare combined. Serve warm, drizzled withhollandaise and a squeeze of lemon, ifdesired. a Serves 4.

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$500 BEST SWEETPecan Torte With Creamy GlazeTAMMY RAINWATER STARR | DEEP EAST TEXAS EC

This elegant dessert, perfectly at home on apretty holiday table, is a mashup of the bestpecan recipes. The torte combines the richness of pecan pie filling with a delicious cookielikebase and creamy glaze. Serve it with strong coffee for an afternoon get-together or as punctuation to a holiday dinner.

TORTE2¼ cups finely chopped pecans ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, plus more for pan3 eggs, separated¼ cup shortening1 cup sugar1 tablespoon vanilla extract1 cup flour½ teaspoon baking soda½ cup buttermilk

GLAZE¾ cup half-and-half6 tablespoons light corn syrup¼ cup firmly packed light brown sugar 2 egg yolks3 tablespoons cornstarch1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. TORTE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Spread chopped pecans on a bakingsheet and toast lightly, about 5 minutes.Heavily butter the inside of a 10-inchspringform pan and sprinkle in ¾ cup ofthe toasted pecans, coating the bottomand sides.2. In a small mixing bowl, beat eggwhites on medium speed until stiffpeaks form. Set aside. In a large mixingbowl, cream butter, shortening andsugar. Add egg yolks, vanilla, flour, bak-ing soda, buttermilk and ¾ cup of

toasted pecans. Fold in egg whites gen-tly. Bake 25 minutes or until a toothpickinserted near center comes out clean.Cool on wire rack about 10 minutes, thenturn out onto a parchment- or waxedpaper-lined rack and cool completely.3. GLAZE: In a small saucepan, combinehalf-and-half, corn syrup, sugar, eggyolks and cornstarch. Whisk overmedium heat until a low boil begins.Continue to boil about 1 minute or untilmixture begins to thicken. Whisk in but-ter and vanilla and remove from heat.Allow to cool completely before spread-ing glaze over top of torte. Sprinkle topof glaze with remaining toasted pecans. a Serves 6–8.

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$500 BEST SAVORYOsso Buco-Style MeatballsPATRICK SPAGON | CENTRAL TEXAS EC

Gremolata is a traditional Italian condiment that’soften used to enhance rich meat dishes like theseluscious bacon and beef meatballs. Spagon sug-gests serving the warm meatballs over polentaor with pasta or steamed rice.

MEATBALLS1 slice whole wheat bread⅓ cup milk1 pound ground beef2 ounces (about 3 slices) smoked bacon, finely chopped 1 egg1 teaspoon saltFinely ground pepper (5 twists of mill)1 tablespoon chopped parsley3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese2 tablespoons finely chopped shallots

⅓ cup olive oil1 cup breadcrumbs

SAUCE2 tablespoons (¼ stick) butter1 medium sweet onion, finely chopped½ cup finely chopped carrot½ cup finely chopped celery1 cup dry white wine1 can (14.5 ounces) chopped Italian tomatoes, undrained

GREMOLATA1½ tablespoons finely grated lemon zest⅓ cup minced parsley1 medium clove garlic, finely minced

1. MEATBALLS: Combine the bread andmilk in a large bowl. When bread is soft,mash it with a fork (or your fingers), thenadd the beef, bacon, egg, salt, pepper,parsley, Parmesan and shallots to the

bowl and mix thoroughly. Make meat-balls 1½–2 inches in diameter. 2. Heat the olive oil in a 1-inch, high-sidedskillet over medium-high heat. Dredge themeatballs in the breadcrumbs, thenbrown them on all sides. Remove meat-balls from skillet and set aside.3. SAUCE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Add the butter to the drippings in theskillet. Add the onion, carrot and celeryand cook, stirring, until softened. Addthe wine and simmer 5 minutes. Add thetomatoes (with liquid) and simmer anadditional 5 minutes. 4. Transfer the sauce and meatballs to a3-quart casserole dish, cover and bake 1hour. Allow the meatballs to cool brieflywhile you prepare the gremolata.5. GREMOLATA: Combine the lemon zest,parsley and garlic in a small bowl. Servethe warm meatballs with a sprinkling ofgremolata over each portion. a Serves 6–8.

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DOUGH2 cups flour1½ tablespoons sugar½ teaspoon salt¼ cup shortening, softened ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, softened (or ½ cup butter in lieu of shortening)½ cup milk, scalded1 egg, separated¾ ounce active dry yeast¼ cup warm water (110–115 degrees)

PECAN FILLING¼ cup (½ stick) butter½ cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 cup finely chopped or ground pecans

POWDERED SUGAR ICING1 tablespoon butter2 tablespoons milk½ teaspoon vanilla extract1 cup powdered sugar

1. DOUGH: Measure flour, sugar, salt,shortening and⁄or butter into a bowland blend well with a pastry cutter. Cool milk slightly, then stir in egg yolk(reserve white for later use). Pour intobowl with first ingredients. 2. Add yeast to warm water and letstand a few minutes. Add to all otheringredients, mixing thoroughly. Scrapedough from sides of bowl (it will be verysoft). Cover tightly and chill 2 to notmore than 48 hours in refrigerator.

3. FILLING: Prepare filling before shapingkringles. Cream butter and sugar untilwell mixed, then blend in pecans. 4. ICING: Over low heat, melt butter withmilk. Remove from heat and add vanilla.Whisk in powdered sugar until smooth,adding a bit more milk if necessary for asmooth consistency.5. Line a baking sheet that is at least 18-by-12 inches (or two smaller sheets) withparchment paper. 6. Divide dough into halves, returning onehalf to the refrigerator. Beat the egg white.On a floured surface, roll the first doughhalf into a 6-by-18-inch rectangle. (Doughwill be very tender.) Spread 3-inch centerstrip with half of beaten egg white, thencarefully spread with half of filling. Foldover one side of dough and then the otherwith 1½-inch overlap to cover filling.Pinch dough to close the fold. Pick upkringle carefully and arrange, seam sidedown, on baking sheet in horseshoe shape;pinch ends. Shape second kringle as firstusing remaining dough from refrigeratorand place on baking sheet. 7. Cover kringles with a kitchen toweland let rise in warm place 30–45 min-utes, or until dent remains when press-ing finger gently on side of dough anddough is no longer cold. Place bakingsheet in an oven that has been heated to400 degrees and bake 20–30 minutesuntil golden brown. 8. Remove from oven and spread withicing while hot. Cut into wedges to serve.a Serves 8–10.

$250 HONORABLE MENTIONDark Chocolate Mint BrowniesJILEEN PLATT | BOWIE-CASS EC

BROWNIES4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, broken into pieces1 cup (2 sticks) butter4 eggs2 cups sugar1 cup flour

MINT FROSTING6 tablespoons (¾ stick) butter, softened2½ cups powdered sugar

3 tablespoons milk¾ teaspoon peppermint extract3 drops green food coloring

CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE2 ounces bittersweet baking chocolate, broken into pieces2 tablespoons (¼ stick) butter

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees andapply nonstick spray to a 16-by-10½-inch jelly roll pan. 2. BROWNIES: Place the chocolate andbutter in a medium microwaveable bowl.Melt in microwave 1 minute. Removebowl from microwave and stir mixtureuntil chocolate is completely melted. Ifneeded, return bowl to microwave andheat 30 seconds longer. Set aside. 3. In a large stand mixer, beat togethereggs and sugar. Add flour and mix on low until only a few white streaks re-main. Pour in melted chocolate mixturewhile mixer is on low and mix until justcombined. 4. Pour mixture on prepared jelly rollpan and spread evenly with a spatula.Place pan in oven and bake approxi-mately 20 minutes or until a toothpickinserted comes out clean. Remove panfrom oven and let cool completely. 5. FROSTING: In a medium mixing bowl,cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Addmilk, peppermint and food coloring.Beat until well combined. Spread frost-ing on cooled brownie layer and place inrefrigerator to chill. 6. DRIZZLE: Place the bittersweet choco-late and butter in a small microwaveablebowl. Melt mixture in microwave 1 minute.Remove bowl from microwave and stirmixture until chocolate is completelymelted. If needed, return bowl tomicrowave and heat 30 seconds longer. 7. Remove pan from refrigerator. Using a small spoon, drizzle melted chocolatemixture diagonally, horizontally and ver-tically until all chocolate is used. Returnpan to refrigerator and let chill com-pletely. When ready to serve, cut the barsinto 1½–2-inch squares. a Makes about 30squares.

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9Waco [9–11] Brazos Fine Art Show and Gala,(830) 708-1436, pactart.org/bfas

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10Burton Big Star Texas Night, (979) 525-5048,burtontexas.org/bigstartexasnight

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The woodlands along the BosqueRiver on the outskirts of Waco longobscured an astonishing paleontologicaldiscovery: partially fossilized remains ofa nursery herd of Pleistocene mammoths.

The wooded land that covered the mam-moths is cut by ravines washed out by peri-odic floodwaters. In 1978, in one of theseravines, two fossil collectors unearthed anenormous bone.

The bone was identified by scientists atBaylor University as the femur of a Colum-bian mammoth. Baylor quickly organizeda team and began excavation of the site. Acentimeter at a time over the next 30 years,Baylor scientists exposed a glimpse of lifeduring an ice age in Central Texas, identi-fying the bones of 23 Columbian mam-moths, a prehistoric camel and the tooth ofa juvenile saber-toothed cat in an area nowknown as Waco Mammoth National Monument.

Unlike other similar discoveries, thebones of the Waco mammoths have not com-pleted the fossilization process by whichminerals gradually replace the organic mate-rial of the bones and transform them into astonelike solid. “They are extremely fragile,”says Anita Benedict, collections manager ofBaylor’s Mayborn Museum. “Before boneswere removed from the site, they had to bestabilized inside plaster jackets.”

The skeletons of the animals that madeup the original nursery herd, a group thatincluded females and juveniles of all ages,are now housed at the Mayborn.

How the animals died is still a mystery.Early scientific evidence pointed to a cat-astrophic flood about 65,000 years agothat trapped mammoths from the nurseryherd in a steep, slippery-sided channelwhere they drowned. Sediment from laterfloods buried the remains.

More recent studies suggest that themammoths did not all die at once but ratherin a series of events over many years. A second flooding event produced an uniden-

tified animal associated with a juvenilesaber-toothed cat, and a third, approxi-mately 15,000 years later, left behind theskeleton of a large bull mammoth, a juvenileand an adult female. These remains are stillat the site.

Because the juvenile lies across themassive 16-foot tusks of the bull, early the-ories posited that he might have been try-ing to lift the calf above the floodwater.Experts doubt this. “Adult male elephantscertainly never do good deeds like savingcalves,” says University of Nevada anthro-pologist Gary Haynes, who has spent 40years studying mammoths. “The bones ofthe bull and the calf at first glance seemto tell an inspiring story of failed rescue,but it is far more likely that the carcassesof the two mammoths were merelywashed together after they were dead.”

The Brazos and Bosque rivers convergenorthwest of downtown Waco, and someexperts speculate that a drought may havedrawn the large number of mammoths tothe plentiful water of the Waco area, whereflash floods led to their deaths. Or could ithave been a poisonous algae bloom? Thejury is still out.

A life-size mural of a Columbian bullmammoth inside the door of the $3.5 mil-lion pavilion that houses the original dig

site provides visitors with a dramatic viewof the creatures. Dwarfing their distantcousins, the smaller woolly mammoths,Columbian mammoths grew to a heightof 14 feet at the shoulder and weighed 8–10 tons. They lived in the temperate grass-lands of the southern United States,Mexico and Central America. A warmerclimate may mean that they had less hairthan the woollies, which occupied coldernorthern regions. The discovery of bits ofbone in the soil when holes were drilledfor the pavilion indicates that other skele-tons may still rest below the surface.

The site in Waco opened to the publicnear the end of 2009, and in 2015, Presi-dent Barack Obama signed an executiveorder that made it a national monumentand part of the National Park Service.Guided tours of Waco Mammoth NationalMonument are offered every 30 minutes,9 a.m.–5 p.m., seven days a week.

Martha Deeringer, a member of Heart of TexasEC, lives near McGregor.

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