Italian Woman in Texas: Italy, Texas

Monday, August 13, 2007

Italy, Texas

Ellis County, Central Texas

NorthI-35EHwy 77 and Hwy 34FM 66744 miles S of Dallas17 miles S of Waxahachie Population: 1,993 (2000)

Italy, Texas Forum

I was born in Milford Texas and was familiar with Italy. I used to go to the movie in Italy on the interurban (because we had no movie). My brother (Dick Murray) ran a radio repair shop in earl shives drug store. if anyone remembers me - please write. - Flora Murray (Henderson), Milford, Ellis, Texas. Email: flo_h_2001@yahoo.com retrieved Aug 13, 2007

The name:
Italy bears no cultural ties to the "Old Country"and if there are citizens of Italian heritage - it's merely coincidental. The name was contributed by the postmaster of 1880 who imagined the climate of Texas comparable to that of Italy.

History in a Pecan shell

A timeline of significant events in Italy, Texas:

1860: Scattered settlement begins

1879: the brothers Aycock built the first house and use it as a combination of house, store and post office. The town was split over what the name should be - some wanting Egypt and others Italy. Gabriel J. Penn, the Waxahachie postmaster settled the matter for them by filling in the blank on the application with the name Italy. The postal authorities gladly accepted Italy (there was already an Egypt in Wharton County).

1890: The population reaches 500 Italians (not really Italians, but what else are you going to call them?)

1891: A big year for Italy. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad arrived (actually in December 1890), the first newspaper was published, and the town was officially incorporated.

1900: population is 1,061

1901: The International-Great Northern Railroad reaches Italy

1913: The Electric Interurban between Waco and Dallas comes through Italy (Electricity for the city was provided by Waco)

1920s: Italy had five gins, a compress, and a cottonseed oil mill.

1925: The population reaches 1,500 and the Italy Independent School District was established.

1930: Italy starts the Great Depression with a population of 1,230 people and 45 businesses.

1960: Italy's population remains nearly the same with only 1,183 people and half the businesses.

Where they used to keep the Lira photo, Decm. 2000

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Dawn, by Robert Bly

Dawn
Some love to watch the sea bushes
appearing at dawn
To see night fall from the goose wings,
and to hear
The conversations the night sea has with the dawn.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Now you know why I spent my twenties crying.
Cries are required from those who wake disturbed at dawn.
Adam was called in to name
the Red-Winged Blackbirds, the Diamond Rattlers, and the Ring-Tailed Raccoons
washing God in the streams at dawn.
Centuries later, the Mesopotamian gods, All curls and ears, showed up;
behind them the Generals
With their blue-coated sons who will die at dawn.
Those grasshopper-eating hermits were so good To stay all day in the cave;
but it is also sweet To see the fenceposts gradually appear at dawn.
People in love with the setting stars are right
To adore the baby who smells of the stable, but we know
That even the setting stars will disappear at dawn.

[First appeared in The Paris Review, #154, Spring 2000. Thanks to the editors for permission to reprint.]

This is from a sequence of 48 poems,
each of them 18 lines long,
which are based loosely on the Islamic ghazal form.
In its classic form,
each stanza stands alone–has its own landscape,
so to speak–and the theme of the poem is never stated.

So the reader has much more to do than he would be used to in the contemporary English poem. When the ghazal has its full development, each stanza in a given poem ends with the same word.
This collection of poems will be published by HarperCollins in April of 2001.