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The life and times of Belle Plain...
LazyK Pejay:
Morning all,
We just finished up out "Three Word Story" and are looking at a different way to have a great running story that is more than three words. For a while this Spring some of us kinda got a story line going at "Move the card game here." Irish Tom and I have shared a few messages about doing something different.
I began to look at Ghost Towns in Texas and the name Belle Plain had a nice ring. Here is some history:
"One of the most promising towns in West Texas during the 1870s was Belle Plain. The town experienced slow growth with only three businesses operating during its first year, which was 1876. By 1880, however, the population had increased to around three hundred and supported a hotel, several mercantile stores and a newspaper among a number of other businesses. Doctors and lawyers were among the town's professionals. One of the first institutions of higher learning in West Texas was the Belle Plain College. The school offered the full classical course of studies as well as the sciences and liberal arts. However, the reputation of Belle Plain College rested with its music department and its twelve grand pianos. The college flourished as well as the town for a few years until the severe drought of 1886-1887 from which neither could recover. The school closed its doors in 1892. By 1897, only four families inhabited the town."
I see a story much like we did in "Move the card game here," where a person can write a sentence or two or some paragraphs. I will do a trail start and see what happens. Thx and have a good day...
LazyK Pejay
LazyK Pejay:
The morning sun rose slowly east of town as the early rising coyotes say good morning to each other. Maurice Stokey lays on the steps of the White Elephant Saloon while Silent Ed the bartender sweeps around him with a scruffy broom. Lights are on at Miss Pruitts Eating Emporium, and at the edge of town the night watchman opens the doors of the just built Belle Plain School for Women. A cowboy staggers slowy out to his horse as one of the alley roses from Ruby's waves from an upper window. The morning stage is due in and the train surveyors are setting up west of town. It looks like another good day in Belle Plain...
LazyK Pejay
We can change the name of the town if you like.
Wildcat Will:
A young man with well kept, but dusty clothes came riding out of the east with the sun at his back. As he sat in the saddle of his jet black stallion Smokey, William Feld just wanted a town where a fella could get some rest. He had been on the trail looking for work for 3 weeks now.
As he rode in he eyed the sign over the saloon "White Elephant Saloon" and pull Smokey to a halt. He calls over to Silent Ed, "You folks got some law in this town?" Ed looks the young man up and down, sees the pair of Colts in holsters riding low and takes a deep breath thinking to himself "another young gunfighter".
"Yep the sheriff is located down the street on the left just Bolton's Dry Good store. His name is Bat Guano."
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Arcey:
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LazyK Pejay:
In the livery stable Horst Hockey the smith sips his first cup of coffee while watching his apprentice Lesley Limps fire up the small furnace. As sparks fly outside the open doors he could see the newcomer walking toward the Sheriff's Office. "Hey Les another young gunfighter's in town. Wonder what he wants with the law?" Horst comment spitting out some coffee grains..." better get a new sock Les for the coffee; the old one's got a hole in it I think.
In the distance the bell in the tower of the Belle Plain Academy begins it's morning peal. A buzzard circles over the hills to the west, and dust rises in the street as the sun begins to heat things up in Belle Plain...
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