How we lived in Welborn before televieionLOCAL HISTORY
° A new book written and edited
by Glenn D. Davis, called How
We Lived in Wellborn before
Television,
delves into the
unique charac-
ter of Wellborn,
a little town
located seven
miles due south
of College
Station.
Wellborn has
been much in
the local news of late for oppo
ing annexation by College
Station.
Davis, who grew up in Well-
born, and a dozen other former
Wellbornites, ask and answer
some important questions about
Wellborn and Brazos County.
What role am water play III
this expansion of a mid -Texas
railroad town in the 1870s and
later?
Why didn't the local cotton -
based economy collapse follow-
ing the Juneteenth declaration
shortly after the Civil War
ended?
Has Brazos County, and small
communities like Wellborn, final-
ly come to grips with segregated
school and other systems?
These are questions not only
'for residents of Wellborn but for
[small communities across the
United States.
How We Lived in Wellborn
Before Television takes an ana-
lytical look at the pre- and post -
television generations that grew
up in Wellborn. Are there differ-
ences in their outlook and atti-
tudes?
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This work is not shaped by its
sentimentalism, but rather by a
fervent wish that the past
should not be forgotten.
The way our parents and
grandparents lived, worked and
played is to be celebrated for its
ingenuity and tenacity. They
: were tough; they had to be to
survive.
The book is available at
Amazon.com.
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