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A side effect of our trips to see mom and dad in their nursing home is that we are getting to know Corsicana a little better. Almost every trip we explore something new, even it is just another greasy spoon restaurant.

Weeks ago I had noticed a small sign on our route pointing to the Lefty Frizzell Museum. His song "If You've Got the Money, Honey, I've Got the Time" is one of the earliest pop songs I remember from my childhood. I have never really been a C&W fan, but in the car I sometimes listen to a compilation CD, which contains a number of his songs, including that one. I already knew that he was from Corsicana. Today we diverted ourselves a couple blocks south to take in the museum.

Actually his museum turned out to be a part of a whole complex of small historical buildings, many of them reconstructed log cabins, containing historical exhibits. We made a cursory round through them all. The cabins were interesting to me because I have lately stayed in some recently built log cabins and have become interested in how they were constructed. I was impressed by a nice collection of Indian arrowheads - and even more by a note on the exhibit that there was a bigger collection of 45,000 arrowheads at the local junior college. I had never really thought of this as Indican territory, but of course it was.

Another exhibit told the story of John Wesley Hardin. I had heard mention of him in old western movies and there is that Bob Dylan song, but I had no idea that his stomping grounds had been around the old town of Pisgah southwest of Corsicana. In fact I had never even heard of Pisgah or been anywhere near it, but it is now on my list of places to visit.

Posted by Bill Hopkins on October 30, 2004 06:05 PM