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In Hurst, A Family Built Around Whirlyball

D Magazine Online, February 6, 2023

Maybe you’ve played the sport at a kid’s birthday party or during a corporate retreat. But for these men and women, it’s more than a hobby.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldFebruary 8, 2023January 19, 2025Posted inD Magazine, Journalism, ReportageTags:Sports

The Spirit of Diamond Bessie Lives on in New Novel

Texas Highways, April 2022

In downtown Grapevine, novelist Jody Hadlock breezes into a busy coffee shop to talk about her new book, The Lives of Diamond Bessie…

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldApril 26, 2022June 7, 2025Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Crime, History

Miracles in a Tough Season

World Magazine, November 10, 2020

As sex trafficking mutates to survive COVID-19, church closures and social isolation threaten those who have already escaped the life, in unanticipated ways

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldNovember 10, 2020January 19, 2025Posted inJournalism, World MagazineTags:Christian, Sex Trafficking

The New London Museum Recalls the Most Deadly School Tragedy in U.S. History

Texas Highways, August 2019

The day a generation died in 1937 in East Texas.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldAugust 1, 2019March 17, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Crime, History, Travel

Jefferson’s ‘Diamond Bessie Murder Trial’ Plumbs 19th-Century Mystery

Texas Highways, April 2019

A national sensation in 1877, the tragic East Texas tale still captures the imagination.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldApril 1, 2019March 17, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Crime, History

Stop and smell the roses in the rose capital, Tyler

Texas Highways, August 2017

With a waggle of his pen, U.S. President John Tyler signed a bill to bring Texas into the United States in 1845. The following year, the state legislature approved a town in his honor in upper East Texas. Since then, Tyler has grown into a thriving city of more than 100,000 souls.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldAugust 1, 2017May 26, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Travel

East Texas’ Jucy’s Hamburgers Aims for the Win

Texas Highways, August 2017

Walking into Jucy’s Hamburgers, at the corner of McCann and US 80 in Longview, the first thing I notice is the vibe, or lack thereof.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldAugust 1, 2017May 26, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Travel

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Magnolia Banner News, May 11, 2017

In Waldo they started young, with pick-up games on the outdoor court near the white, wood-sided building that housed first grade classes. Kids, mostly black, often in street clothes, yelled and dribbled and shot. The chain nets jangled whenever a ball dropped through.

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldMay 11, 2017July 14, 2022Posted inJournalismTags:Arkansas, Sports

Hunt County Heroes

Texas Highways, Febuary 2017

The Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldFebruary 26, 2017May 26, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Crime, History

Nature by Day..or Night

Texas Highways, October 2016

Guided night hikes at Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area

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Posted byPaul McDonnoldOctober 1, 2016May 26, 2021Posted inJournalism, Texas HighwaysTags:Travel

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