United We Stand

United We Stand

By P.A. Geddie Most Americans on the home front during World War II fully supported the war effort.  Nearly all Americans despised Nazism and wished to defeat it and also sought to avenge the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The war placed great demands and a great deal of...

Americans Fight for Freedom: World War II

Americans Fight for Freedom: World War II

By P.A. Geddie The United States of America was officially created in 1776 by men and woman from different parts of the world who broke free from cruel, oppressive tyranny to create a land where they were free to make their own life choices. They wrote the Declaration...

Culture Shock

Culture Shock

By P.A. Geddie Walking through the fields and trees alongside the Neches River in the southeast corner of Van Zandt County you can almost hear the battle cries, the gunshots, the horses’ hoofs pounding on the grass and dirt, sloshing through the river, and women and...

The Power of a Song

The Power of a Song

By P.A. Geddie Listening to former Tyler resident Allyn Sorsby play his guitar and sing a newly-written song about love on the East Texas backroads, I was reminded of one of my own long-ago backroads memories—a night when the stars filled the sky, the usual...

Coming Summer 2025

County Line Magazine archives are being entered into The Portal to Texas History, a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Look for the County Line issues there soon.