[spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Oh, how we love it when the Blue Angels roar into town like ...
Author: Shirley Thornton
Retired from education after serving 30 years (twenty-eight as an English teacher and two years as a new-teacher mentor), Shirley enjoys her life with family and friends while serving her community, church, and school in Flour Bluff, Texas. She is the creator and managing editor of The Paper Trail, an online news/blog site that serves to offer a glimpse into the past and present of the little community of Flour Bluff. She wrote for The Flour Bluff Messenger, wrote and edited for The Texas Shoreline News, a Corpus Christi print newspaper that existed from December 2017 to April 2020, served as copy editor on three books, and continues to tutor students of all ages in the lively art of writing.
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Ritter FamilyTales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Ritter Family
As Flour Bluff School ends its 128th year of educating children, it only seems appropriate to revisit the story of ...
Tales from the Little Town that Almost Was: Forever Friends, Part IITales from the Little Town that Almost Was: Forever Friends, Part II
[spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Sporting events have been at the heart of the Flour Bluff community since the ...
Tales from the Little Town that Almost Was: Forever Friends, Part ITales from the Little Town that Almost Was: Forever Friends, Part I
[spacer height=”20px”] In August of this year, five women who have been friends for nearly 70 years took ...
Congratulations to Flour Bluff ISD 2019-2020 Campus and District Teachers of the Year!Congratulations to Flour Bluff ISD 2019-2020 Campus and District Teachers of the Year!
[spacer height=”20px”] Flour Bluff Campus Teachers of the Year [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer ...
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Life and Times of Lacy Smith, Part IITales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Life and Times of Lacy Smith, Part II
[spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Lacy Lee Smith recalls how he got his unique first name. “My mama was ...
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Life and Times of Lacy Smith: Part ITales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Life and Times of Lacy Smith: Part I
[spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] In a little shack at the end of a cotton field outside of Weslaco, ...
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Nicholson Story, Part IVTales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Nicholson Story, Part IV
In Part III of the Nicholson story, we learned that John Orval Nicholson III (Johno) ran his ...
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Nicholson Story, Part IIITales from the Little Town That Almost Was: The Nicholson Story, Part III
To preserve the rich history of Flour Bluff, The Texas Shoreline News, will run historical pieces and personal accounts about ...
Tales from the Little Town That Almost Was, The Nicholson Story, Part IITales from the Little Town That Almost Was, The Nicholson Story, Part II
To preserve the rich history of Flour Bluff, The Texas Shoreline News, will run historical pieces and personal accounts about ...