We made an interesting trip today. It was nostalgic for me because I haunted these towns a lot when I worked at KLTV in Tyler. We went through my grandfather's home town, Winnsboro, then on the Pittsburg, where we ate at the famous Pittsburg Hot Links restaurant. The picture is not very good, I admit, but I was trying to get the Pilgram's Pride factory in the background of the shot. That telephone pole is right in the way. At the restaurant, they serve the links on paper with crackers and it's really good. Then we went to the museum to see the Ezekiel Air Ship. Supposedly, a preacher made an aircraft based on what he read in Ezekiel. They say he flew it before the Wright Brothers, but it was destroyed on a train taking it to a world's fair, so he never got credit for it. The nice lady at the museum let me take a picture, as you can see. This is a recreation of the original, but we can't see how it would ever fly, unless a good wind happened to come along. On our trip, we went through Tyler, Winsborro, Mineola, Quitman, Gilmer, Big Sandy, Pittsburg, Wynona and Frankston. It was more than 200 miles, round-trip. 
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