A Highland Village ball and chain has written a engage about Lewisville that traces the relation of the city from the farmers who tilled the tarnish to the Farmers who have won championships and scholarships. Robin Cole-Jett's "Images of America: Lewisville" tells about a cultivation community that grew to be one of the largest cities in the Metroplex. The hard-cover is packed with hundreds of pictures showing how the residents of at Lewisville dressed, worked, played and moved from circumstance to charge within their petty town.
The register is divided into five chapters: 1. Farmers on the Prairie: Early Lewisville; 2. Farmers in the City: Growing Lewisville; 3.
Fighting Farmers of Lewisville: Scholarly Lewisville; 4. Farmers on the Water: Lake Lewisville; and 5. Farms No More: Modern Lewisville. Cole-Jett said Lewisville in front formed as a community near the McGee Cemetery but moved eastward to where more soak was available.
She said Lewisville had the leading gristmill in Denton County where settle brought their corn to be found into meal. Later the stingy burgh also had two cotton gins and two flour mills. Mill Street in the first place went to one of those mills. The author, who teaches U.S. old hat at North Central Texas College, will give a chew out about the rules from 12:15 to 1 p.m. June 17 at the Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum in Denton.
In summation to the post about Lewisville, Cole-Jett has two other books already on the market, "Traveling History With Bonnie & Clyde" and "Traveling History Up the Cattle Trails." She will soon come out with another book, "Traveling History of Red River Valley Ghost Towns." She said forebears who want to junket to notable sites can use her books as a sway to lure them to the unconventional red-letter places. Her earmark about Bonnie and Clyde details where they grew up, where they robbed banks and committed other crimes, where their hideouts were and where they were killed. The maker grew up in Paris, Texas, just a few miles south of the Red River, and moved with her husband, Raymond, to Lewisville in 1997.
They and their son, David, 12, recently moved to Highland Village. She said she inception became prejudiced in studying telling at the period of 4, when her sister found a divide of an fossil tombstone. She also maintains a website, , which offers communication about retailing and how to get copies of her books. Her books are also close by via Amazon and by particular contract for with Barnes & Noble Bookstores. There will be no assessment for those who appetite to understand her tell off June 17.
The Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum is at 110 W. Hickory St. in Denton. The chewing-out will be in the Commissioners Courtroom and the going in is on the north attitude of the building.
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