Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Elena Hernandez fires a musket from the Revolutionary War era that was loaded with a styrofoam bullet. The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution were responsible for the presentation given at Reiman Park July 13, which was sponsored by the Odessa Public Library.
The Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution can trace their ancestors back to someone who lived in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War period. Two of those descendants visited Odessa last week Wednesday to talk about U.S. history and the life and times of the colonists. One of the two was former Odessa resident Gale Palmer (a history teacher at Odessa High School who lost his wife and two of his three children in the horrific explosion and fire that swept through a carnival that was in town for the weekend in late August of 1961). The other w...
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