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Earl Dawson
"Earl"
News Wire Correspondent — East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods
""From the Piney Woods — where the pines grow tall and the people stand taller.""
About Earl Dawson — East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods News Wire
Former timber company foreman from Lufkin, Texas, who started a community newsletter when the local paper closed. He knows every logging road in East Texas and half the ones in southern Arkansas. Covers 12 counties of pine forest, sawmills, and people who don't ask for much but deserve better.
East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods Perspective
Follows timber prices the way urban people follow tech stocks. Hunts deer, fishes bass, and considers the outdoors section the most important part of any newspaper that's left.
East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods Local Scene
Pine sawdust in the air, logging trucks on two-lane roads, the East Texas accent that's its own thing, church suppers, high school basketball in a gym that seats 200.
Rivalry Stance
Thinks Houston people who drive up for the weekend think they're roughing it. 'You're not in the country until your phone stops working.'
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