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These 50 States: Texas

Posted in Patch Collecting, These 50 States by John E. Pannell on June 1st, 2008 at 5:02 am

There’s a yellow rose in Texas, That I am going to see,
Nobody else could miss her, Not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her It like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her, We nevermore will part.

35 N1?Does anyone still remember the series on state shaped patches I was writing last Winter?   Finally, I have put together a new entry in this series:   Texas.   Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.

There appears to be an affinity of sorts between the lodges of Texas and Oklahoma.     Some lodges have used the shapes of both states in their patches.   Previously I mentioned these in the Oklahoma post and will copy them again here.

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