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The perfect companion recipe book to the original prizewinning Potluck on the Pedernales! These great down-home recipes - more than 600 in all - have been kitchen tested by volunteers in the community of Johnson City, Texas. And you know Hill Country folks eat well, because there are no duplicates of the recipes in the first cookbook volume. This Second Helping has three new sections.1. MELTING POT - A culinary blending of cultures and ethnic cooking by the diverse groups who have made the Hill Country home for generations.2. LOOK WHO'S COOKING - Macho meals by male chefs that include everything from shrimp appetizers to the best of wild game main dishes.3. The Good Old Days - Heritage recipes more than a half-century old - all used for Sunday dinners and potluck suppers over the years.Compiled by the Community Garden Club of Johnson City, come on around and have a Second Helping of lip-smacking food from deep in the heart of LBJ Country."If it had been any better you couldn't have stood it!"

The author was orphaned at the age of six, along with her brother and sister. They were taken to the Woodman Circle Home in Sherman, Texas, where they spent several years, before being adopted into permanent families.The Woodman Circle Home was owned and sponsored by the Supreme Forest Woodman Circle Life Insurance Company and opened in the 1920s. The home was the first of its kind that provided a home for widows and orphaned children whose families had life insurance policies with the Woodman Circle Life Insurance Company. Orphaned children were allowed to live there until they graduated high school.Fictitious names are used throughout this book, including on all photo captions, for privacy reasons. Events portrayed are based on actual facts, with some license taken by the author to create a more interesting read.

Rhome, A Pioneer History is the end result of the author's search for her roots. This volume could easily be called, A History of the Pioneers of Rhome, but Catherine Gonzalez plowed the soil of Rhome deeper, and her story encompasses not only a people but also an era and a lifestyle that is a part of all our heritage. The author covered the story of the Rhome area from the Prairie Point days of the 1800s to the post-war years of the 1940s. Her research began with the establishment of the town in the 1850s by Samuel Sheets and carries the reader forward to the coming of the railroad, drawing up of the plat for the townsite, the building of the community, and its growth and development through World War II. Also included is information about the surrounding communities of Aurora and Fairview. The heart of the history is the family genealogical section with histories of 125 Rhome pioneer families. The book is fully referenced and has an ex­tensive index of family names as they occur throughout the history section. Mrs. Gonzales, a long-time public school teacher in Rhome and the surround­ing area, used considerable material taken from the microfilm of the Wise County Messenger and The Decatur News, dating as far back as 1882. The book also includes 113 historic photographs and a copy of the orig­inal plat of the townsite of Rhome.

More than a million American airmen were involved in air fighting during World War II. When Eighth Air Force aircraft were lost due to enemy action over Europe, the statistics on American airmen accumulated as follows:¿ Over 26,000 were killed in action.¿ Over 130,000 became prisoners of war.¿ Over 7,000 were permanently disabled or hospitalized.¿ Over 500 were interned in Sweden or Switzerland, neutral countries.¿ And, over 5,000 evaded capture by the enemy after they were shot down!These 5,000-plus American airmen who evaded capture by the enemy became part of or were hidden by the underground forces of the country in which they were shot down. Their wounds were treated, they were dressed in civilian clothes, they were given identity cards, and in many cases, led to freedom. The surviving evaders, or evadees, as they were known then, became bound together by an organization known as the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society.These evaders were sworn to secrecy until the mid-1970s to protect those who helped them during the war. Their stories were not for publication. This is the story of one of the 5,000 who, with the help of the Dutch underground, was hidden by, worked with, and fought beside the brave Netherlanders during the German occupation of their country.