One last thought

Camp County is Home Sweet Home

By Ellis Knox

I enjoyed my stint working for the Feds in theWashington D. C. area. Working for the Department of Defense and later the Central Intelligence Agency. We and our children visited all the Smithsonian museums numerous times. Going to George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon on the Potomac River. I truly enjoyed my visits to Civil War and American Revolutionary war battle elds. Also site-seeing in some of the more famous cities of the north east, such as New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Richmond. Touring “old Iron Sides” the USS Constitution, seeing the Liberty Bell, touching a real moon rock at the Smithsonian. On one visit to the Air and Space Museum, actually nding the Spirit of St. Louis sitting on the oor for its annual cleaning and touching its wing, an absolute thrill. Eating at the numerous and varied restaurants featuring cuisine from all over the world. Even attending a church that had members from all over the world. It is a unique place, and that brings me to Pittsburg, with no “h”, Texas. However, when it came time to retire, we came back to Texas. We could have moved anywhere in Texas and we thought about San Antonio, the Houston area, my two home towns, Corrigan where all my Knox family is buried, or Livingston where I went to school. We looked around Dallas, Longview, and Tyler.

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