About the Book
After watching a town of three thousand inhabitants shrink and die over
a fifty year period, finally stabilizing with a population of just over
seven hundred people, the author Bill Goldwire concluded that surely something
of significance should remain. Here at the edge of the Texas Big Bend Country
in far-West Texas right near the Rio Grande that the Mexicans call the
Rio Bravo, the remains of this little town is now ghost territory. Having
been established in the 1880s, you could expect that most of the buildings
would be built of the earth, adobe buildings and abodes. They were well
built by expert laborers and have mostly weathered their one hundred and
twenty years of existence with little change except that the grounds are
filled with weeds and bushes and the interior of the buildings might be
sagging in places. Cobwebs are all over and mice make themselves at home
in old abandoned furniture. It is surprising that most of the windowpanes
are still not broken.
This is what the author is seeing: one hundred year old buildings, vacant
and abandoned, a Mecca for tourists seeking the influence of a genuine
ghost town. The book titled GHOSTS ALL AROUND TOWN tells of a number
of incidents that surely did happen or probably will happen after dark
in this spooky little country town.
About the Author
Bill Goldwire, a veteran schoolteacher with a lot of imagination, connected
most of these stories with old, abandoned and burned-out buildings that
were scattered round town just here and there. There was a history
that went along with each of these old homes and businesses that had to
be dug out. All of the properties were still owned by someone, though they
were disinterested and probably lived far away from their roots in this
little, shrunken ghost town.
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