Good read, MC! Thanks for posting. My grandfather grew up and went to school in Jefferson, but he and my grandmother lived in Baldwin a few miles east toward Karnack. He was big buddies with T.J. Taylor and knew Lady Bird Taylor, later to be Johnson after she married L.B.J. I liked her too, but didn't care much for Lyndon, he always smelled of whiskey. When I was a kid, I would go with my grandparents to Jefferson during the annual "Pilgrimage" in Jefferson. The highlight was the reenactment of the Diamond Bess Murder Trial. All that has changed now. Baldwin is a ghost town, no structures remain, Karnack has only a few residents, no general stores. No much to it either.
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