Above: Devastation at the Bay – National Weather Service photo
Above: Art Longwell, detail from a photo of the Table Rock Band, circa 1910
It’s the Story Don’t you just love a good story? Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.
Part 1 of 2 Let me start in the middle of the story.A Category 3 hurricane – equal to Katrina -- headed for Corpus Christi, Texas on Sunday, September 14, 1919. A Table Rock family had moved to a sea side neighborhood in Corpus Christi a few years before. The head of the household was Arthur M. Longwell, Table Rock Class of 1897, a...
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