A Brief Visit to Texas’ Oldest Town

NACOGDOCHES — We decided to head to the Oldest Town in Texas on a glorious day during Spring Break, to take in the beauty of the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden — 11 acres containing more than 7,000 azaleas, majestic camellias, Japanese maples and other plants and trees on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University. My Beautiful Mystery Companion and I are both alums of SFA, though we did not know each other at the time. I ended up returning in 1990 as managing editor, then editor and publisher of The Daily Sentinel and lived in Nac on this second stint for 13 years. It remains one of my favorite...

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