Nacogdoches

[West R Lee]

Been there on one of my camping trips. Here's a shot I took a little over 10 years ago at Caddo Lake, about 3 hours north of Nacogdoches:

Remember some of the road signs with other cities that had 'hard-to-pronounce' names. Indeed a beautiful area and I would think nothing has changed since then!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Goodness Hans. Once you told me where you'd had a flat tire and it was right down the street from us (30 miles or so). I could have taken you to lunch. And now you post this shot of Caddo Lake, maybe 40 minutes east of us. It's beautiful there and we've been there many times. If you EVER find yourself in Northeast Texas again, do let me know ahead of time. I'd love to have you out to our place or at least take you out to eat. Mrs. West and I miss you. I want to hear you play "Here Comes the Sun" again.



And most of the hard to pronounce names are Indian names.

West

 

[AcornHouse]

Nacogdoches is, in part, responsible for the Marx Brothers becoming the Marx Brothers. Harpo, in his most excellent autobiography “Harpo Speaks”, writes how they were playing the vaudeville circuit when they were young under the stern eye of their mother Minnie. Whenever they got too rambunctious on stage she would rebuke them with the name of their landlord back in New York.
However, when they got to Nacogdoches, a runaway mule proved more interesting to the audience than their act and they just let loose on them with lines like “Nacogdoches is full of roaches” and other zingers. Minnie was powerless to control them that night.
Having tasted the feeling of just letting loose and going wherever their minds would take them, they started doing more and more in their act.
Later, when this anarchy became their stock in trade, when they were on Broadway with a musical by George S Kaufman, he stopped a conversation during a perforomance and said to his companion "Excuse me, I thought I heard one of my original lines."

 

[West R Lee]

Here's an interesting East Texas tidbit.



West