I, too, thought okay - Beaumont and Saginaw - gotta be Texas. Didn’t get beyond the first line of the article though. Still wonder why a Beaumont paper would be carrying writing about something that happened in Michigan. But then remembered that a lot of articles about events in the U.S. come from England.
Originally from Kansas but did three month TDY with my company in Beaumont many years ago. First time to Texas other than the Dallas area. Talk about culture shock. Ended up spending most of my spare time drinking at the BPM.
Not to be impolite to the folks still living there, but I’ve often heard of Beaumont being referred to as the armpit of the world-—LOL!
It was a great place to grow up back in the 40’s and 50’s. Went to my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago, and it was a very bittersweet occasion. Several more of my classmates have gone to their reward since we last met, and some of the ones who were there had experienced strokes and other maladies that had them confined to wheelchairs—but their spirits were still high.
Hey—we graduated in 1955—and some people think that makes us old—LOL!