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6 PROFILE: SCOTT MCCARTNEY Karen Blumenthal’s husband 12 SIZZLE & SWIRL Mariano’s Hacienda turns 50 16 HOME TOUR HUES What’s lavender, buffalo plaid and all over Lake Highlands 20 FOREST AUDELIA VILLAGE Where one nonprofit imagines a flourishing community 24 JFK & POWS A few things November in Dallas is known for Read more about the Lake Highlands Women’s League Home Tour on page 16. Photography by Jessica Turner. november 2021

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Scott McCartney was one half of a journalistic power couple. Now he’s coping with the loss of his wife, author Karen Blumenthal, in part, by finishing things she started. › Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by KATHY TRAN

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cott Mc Car tne y is an accomplished journalist who pens a popular column for America’s newspaper of record for business and financial news — The Wall Street Journal. McCartney covers all things airlines and travel in his weekly column, “ The Middle Seat,” and on his “Middle Seat Terminal” blog.

He helped the newspaper earn a Pulitzer for its coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He’s published four books. And he is an instrument-rated, multi-engine private pilot. Here in Lake Highlands, however, many know him as “Karen Blumenthal’s husband.”

Theirs is a tale of two brilliant people whose respect for one another trumped their individual competitive drives. Their story includes funny anecdotes and inspirational triumphs as well as tragedy and heartache. In May 2020, she — financial reporter, young-adult nonfiction author, educator and beloved neighborhood philanthropist — died suddenly at 61, leaving McCartney and two daughters to grapple with the loss and her unfinished business.

I was totally into it, and nobody else on the city desk really cared. It turned into a huge deal.

HOW DID YOU AND KAREN FIND EACH OTHER? I grew up in B o s to n , a n d we met at Duke University. Karen gave me my first assignment at The Chronicle, Duke’s student ne wspaper. We loved working toge ther, and we did it a lot — at The Chronicle, at The Wall Street Journal and later teaching a class toge ther at Duke right before she died. She was a year ahead of me, and she returned to Texas after graduating to work at the Dallas Morning News. I followed her and joined The Associated Press, where I worked for 11 years.

T H E R E ’S A STO RY F LOAT I N G A RO U N D A BO U T H OW S H E E N D E D U P AT T H E DA L L AS BU R E AU O F T H E WA L L ST R E E T J O U R N A L W I T H YO U, A N D I T H I N K I T T E L L S US S O M U C H A B O U T YO U R R E L AT I O N S H I P. W O U L D YO U S H A R E T H AT ?

K aren had left the Morning News for The Wall Street Jo u r n a l a n d a f t e r a f e w y e a r s r e t u r n e d t o D M N a s b u s i n e s s e d i t o r. T h a t ’s w h e n t h e Jo u r n a l h i r e d m e .

S o , I b r o ke a h u ge s t o r y a b o u t a D a l l a s c o m p a n y — the source called our house, Karen answered, and t h e y a s ke d t o t a l k t o m e . T h i s w a s a h u ge , f r o n t - p a ge

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feature, and I worked on it all day while she took our girls to Janie C hris ty’s Dance Recital Day. Karen k ne w w hat I w a s w o rk ing o n, a nd she c o u ldn’ t do a t h i n g a b o u t i t . I fi n i s h e d t h e s t o r y a t 1 0 p . m . a n d found her sitting in our living room, s taring s traight ahead, arms folded. We ended up staying up all night talking, tr ying to figure out what we were going to do.

I went into the office the next day, and ever ybody was high fiving, and I went to the bureau chie f and said I needed a different beat, one that didn’ t involve Dallas c o mpa nies, bec a u se I w a sn’ t go ing to c o mpe te wi t h my wife. The Journal’s managing editor responded by o ffering Ka ren a jo b. It w a sn’ t the ea sies t c ho ice fo r

her to accept. She was ver y l oyal to the Mor n i n g Ne ws. I am sur e it al so was s tra nge fo r the pe opl e who worked for us. It turned out a little like a moma nd-po p ba ker y — like, “O K , y o u edit the s to r y and I ’ l l p i c k u p t h e g i r l s . I ’ l l t a ke c a r e o f t h i s , a n d y o u ma ke dinner.” A nd it w a s rea lly c o nvenient fo r us t o divide u p du ties like that.

HOW DID YOU WIND UP ON THE TRAVEL AND FLIGHT BEAT? My f i r s t b r e a k w a s a s a n i n t e r n a t t h e M o r n i n g Ne ws, the firs t time I e ver spent in Te xa s, a nd it was the a ir tra ffic c o ntro llers’ E a s t Co a s t S trike in 1 9 80.

I was totally into it, and nobody else on the city desk really cared. It turned into a huge deal. Reagan fired (the strikers), and you had this huge travel disruption o f a ll these c o ntro llers no t w o rk ing.

WHY DOES AIRLINE STUFF FASCINATE YOU? Airlines are enormously complicated, and it is a tough, challenging business, and it ’s one readers care a b o u t p a s s i o n a t e l y. A n d t h e r e a r e s o m a n y a s p e c t s to it — o peratio ns, s to rms, fa res, freq u ent flyer progra ms, feeding. Yo u na me it. It ’s a lso a hu ge par t of the pa ndemic s to r y.

WHAT HAS THE PANDEMIC MEANT FOR INDUSTRY SUB-PLOTS? W h e n t h e r e ’s w a r, w h e n t h e r e a r e o u t b r e a k s o f viru ses, w hen there a re s to rms a nd disa s ters, t rave l is a lw ay s a big pa r t o f the s to r y. I’ve ha d to a l m os t b e c o m e a m e d i c a l r e p o r t e r, l o o k i n g a t v e n t i l a t i o n , aircraf t cabins, viral transmission, the rights of travelers — it ’s a ll pa r t o f w hat I w rite a bo u t. Bu sin e ss travelers a ren’ t traveling a s mu c h no w, a nd that h as huge implications. One of my concerns is that flying is a ver y s tressful ac tivity, and the pandemic-related c ha nges have led to a ngr y travelers, c o nfro ntati ons, a nd I a m a fra id o ne lo ng-term resu lt is it ’s go ing t o bec o me mo re s tressfu l a nd diffic u lt.

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YOU’RE A PILOT, TOO. PERSONALLY OR PROFESSIONALLY, HOW MUCH INTEREST DO YOU HAVE IN SPACE TRAVEL? I got my pilot’s license, and I love flying, but I do not feel the urge to go to outer space, personally.

S O YO U R A I S E D YO U R G I R L S I N L A K E HIGHLANDS. DID YOU EVER MISS BOSTON OR CONSIDER SOMETHING CLOSER TO WALL STREET? We moved to Lake Highlands from East Dallas in 1994 and love it dearly — the strong community spirit, the diversity, great schools, great friends and the neighborhood feel in the heart of the big city.

We had multiple opportunities to go to New York. We just didn’ t want to raise our kids there. Both went to Moss Haven Elementar y and Fores t Meadow Junior High, then Hockaday. Their second home was the Janie Christy School of Dance in Lake Highlands, and they

remain close to Ms. Janie.

The most important thing to her was helping young people understand this very complicated world. grateful to have those because she died nine months after. I had this crazy collec tion of hotel pens from my travel s, and she had whisper ed to me that she was going to expose my hotel-pen fetish, and I just cracked up, so there’s this one picture where I have this huge laugh on my face. Really nice picture.

A N D I H E A R , L I K E T H E I R PA R E N T S , YO U R DAUGHTERS ARE MAKING NAMES FOR THEMSELVES.

K A R E N W ROT E B O O KS FO R YO U N G P EO P L E ABOUT ROE V. WADE, HILLARY CLINTON, STEVE JOBS, AND BONNIE AND CLYDE, TO NAME A FEW, AND SHE ALSO WAS A CHAMPION OF DALLAS LIBRARIES. WHAT IS HER LEGACY?

Our youngest, Jen McCartney, is a writer in Los Angeles, working as a staff writer on an animated Hulu show called Solar Opposites. She’s worked on se veral shows — a Ne tflix comedy called The Big Show, the Fox sitcom LA to Vegas and The Soup with Joel McHale on E!.

Her sister Abby Mc Car tne y is a legislative aide t o S e n . E l i z a b e t h Wa r r e n , w o r k i n g o n e d u c at i o n and child care polic y issues. Before that, she was executive director and co-founder of the nonprofit Camden Enrollment.

The most important thing to her was helping young people understand this very complicated world. And she did that in her books, and she did that with her library work, with her teaching and mentoring — she tutored kids at Moss Haven and Forest Meadow — that was really what motivated her most. Her daughters — much of what is important to them, they got from her. Abby’s expertise is with early childhood education. Jenny is the creative writing side, and I’m biased, but I’m just ver y proud of both of them making a difference in the world.

YOUR WIFE WROTE YOUR WALL STREET JOURNAL “MIDDLE SEAT” COLUMN ONE DAY. WHY WAS THAT, AND HOW DID IT GO?

HOW ARE YOU, JENNY AND ABBY COPING?

The Journal’s editor-in-chie f, Matt Murray, we both know well. One day he said, “ You write about other people’s travels all the time. I’d really like to read about how you travel, and I’d like Karen to write it. So I told her, and once she stopped laughing, it turned out she had been saving anecdotes, gathering string and had a lifetime of material ready to go.

A n d s h e d i d i t b e a u t i f u l l y. S h e e x p o s e d a l l my quirkiness, whatever. And I’m so grateful because it was a wonderful experience. And for a while ever y inter view I would go into with a travel company or airline executive, and they’d say, “your stuff is good, but we just loved hers.” Another aspect of it was, we went to L ove Field with a Journal p h o t o g r a p h e r and he took these great pic tures of us, and I am so

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We are heartbroken, shattered, but there has been a lot of work to do to finish all the things Karen started, like the Forest Green Library in Lake Highlands. She held that first fundraising meeting at our dining table, trying to raise $85,000, and then she died, and so the girls and I thought, “We need to finish this for her.”

Her friends stepped up — Moss Haven Moms, the book clubs, and they formed this committee and they raised $108,000. And this is an extraordinary library with all these technological innovations — the only library with virtual reality goggles.

It has helped us, helped us feel Karen’s presence. It was bittersweet because she wasn’t there to see it, but it was more sweet than bitter because it really is beyond what she dreamed and hoped for.

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Mesquite-grilled fajitas are the most popular menu item at Mariano’s Hacienda.

L EG E N DA RY F ROZ E N BUZ Z This invention made Dallas margarita history 50 years ago Story by RAVEN JORDAN | Photography by KATHY TRAN

MARIANO’S HACIENDA CELEBRATED THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of its famous frozen margaritas in May. The frozen margarita madness put Dallas on the margarita map and was started by Mariano Martinez — a man

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Left: A Mariano’s margarita on the rocks. Photo courtesy of Mariano’s. Right: A chile relleno is served with refried beans and rice.

He saw children drinking slurpees and decided to try the process with his restaurant’s margaritas.

“I saw the slurpee machine and thought the recipe would be very consistent,” Martinez says. “What could have been easier than pulling a lever? What could have been colder than frozen?”

On May 11, 1971, he made history when his tinkering with a soft-serve machine he found in a used equipment warehouse. He began to market his alcoholic concoction at his restaurant, and it was an instant hit in Dallas, especially among local college students. Back then, the original location was near Southern Methodist University.

“Restaurants all over Dallas began to copy what I did, and now margarita machines can be found in 46 countries around the world,” Martinez says.

Martinez’s signature margarita recipe is based on his father’s. It’s hand-shaken and served on the rocks, garnished with lime sliced to look like a daisy. And it’s Martinez’s most popular margarita, named after the man himself.

“I’ve come up with 13 hand-crafted margaritas and Mariano is now the most popular of them all,” Martinez says.

The restaurant’s margaritas range from frozen to ‘sorta-ritas,’

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which substitute the tequila with whiskey or bourbon.

The entrees include a variety of Tex-Mex and traditional Mexican dishes. Have a taste for fajitas? They have that.

Have a taste for tacos? That’s on the menu. Have a taste for queso, enchiladas or soups? They’ve got all bases covered.

But the most popular item is the mesquite grilled fajitas.

“The fajitas are cooked on mesquite wood and served with our house-made flour tortillas,” Martinez says.

This year, the restaurant celebrated 50 frozen years in a couple of ways. There was the Margarita Mile — a Dallas giveaway that ran March 22-May 11 — and an updated drink menu with 15 options instead of the usual 13.

Martinez is the owner of five restaurants with two Mariano’s Hacienda and three La Hacienda Ranch locations across Dallas.

The original frozen margarita machine is now cemented as a piece of American history at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Martinez proudly donated it in 2005.

“It’s right next to Julia Child’s kitchen and the first Tupperware,” Martinez says.

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A PEEK INSIDE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORHOOD HOMES Story by CAROL TOLER Photography by JESSICA TURNER

THE LAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN’S LEAGUE has averaged 15 new members over the past four years, but that doesn’t mean their new initiates are rookies. Most, like Missy Thomas Richardson, have a long history of service in the community and ties to the neighborhood.

Richardson is a graduate of Lake Highlands High School and longtime Young Life leader for LHHS students.

Her mom, Martha Thomas, and her aunt, Marian Davenport, were both members of the league, and two of her childhood homes were part of Home

in the Highlands, the group’s annual home tour fundraiser. In 1980, the year she turned 8, her home at 8956 Aldwick Circle was included in the league’s inaugural tour.

“I remember getting to sleep over with my cousins and the house looking very nice,” Richardson says. “My mom and my uncle, Floyd Davenport, worked together to get it ready.”

When Richardson was in ninth grade, her family purchased 10031 Ferndale from family friends Ruth and Gene Stallings. Stallings, like many former Dallas Cowboys coaches

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and players, lived in the neighborhood when the team’s training facility was at Forest Lane and Abrams Road.

“The tour used to be more about Christmas decorations,” Richardson says, “and my mom revamped most of her decorations for that 1992 tour.

She did one kitschy tree and one formal tree with beautiful, breakable ornaments. My grandmother handmade a bunch of Disney character and nursery rhyme ornaments, and I still use them today. Back then, having two trees was a novelty, but lots of people do it now.”

Pops of orange add unexpected color to a blue room. Lavender accents give a subtly colorful touch to everyday spaces.

After they moved in, Richardson’s parents ripped the wallpaper off the wall of her bathroom, intending to replace it. Then they got distracted by other tasks.

“Now I understand they were busy, but my bratty 15-year-old self started writing messages on the walls.

“Then my friends joined in, and it became this thing,” Richardson says.

“Even the adults loved it. For the tour, my parents brought a graphic artist over to add color, and they left the writing up. That would never happen today.”

Richardson will volunteer in a house on tour day, and it might be the home of Stephani and Robert Walne.

Stephani joined LHWL in 2018, and Robert currently serves as president of the Exchange Club. Like Richardson, they have memories of the tour from younger days.

“I remember my mom baking for the bake sale and making crafts for the bazaar,” says Stephani, whose mom, Eileen, is a member and opened their Sanshire home for the 1989 tour. “We stayed with my grandmother while

my mom got the house ready.”

Robert’s grandmother, Frances Walne, joined the league in 1970, and his mom, Joan, served as president.

His childhood home at 10020 Caribou Trail was on the tour in 2002.

“I reflect back now and understand how important it is for your kids to see you working to give back to the community,” Stephani says. “It’s something my parents did and Robert’s parents did – making an impact and giving back to those in need.”

Stephani and Robert married

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Muted hues make formal spaces more comfortable. Rustic touches such as the barn door and exposed brick mix with modern aesthetics to create a space that feels both dressy and livable.

after college and moved into White Rock Valley. She remembers taking the day off work and rounding up girlfriends to attend the home tour long before she joined the league. Some were LHHS graduates, but some had recently moved to Uptown or The Village from towns all over Texas.

“It was fun as young adults to see all the homes,” Stephani says. “We made it a girls’ day, then it was girls’ night out the year of the ice storm.

“Once you’re here, you get it,” Stephani continues. “The tagline ‘Small town in a big city’ nails it on the head. We have access to restaurants and arts and all sorts of amenities, and we’ve got great schools and great people with that small-town support you want when you are raising kids.”

And the Walnes have a houseful – Lucy is in seventh grade, Brett is in fourth and twins Jack and Charlie are in second.

“Robert and I definitely live in this house. All the kids’ bedrooms are upstairs, so that’s where all the rough living happens, but it happens down here, too,” Stephani says. “We don’t want to live in a museum. This is our home. This is where we’re doing life, and visitors will see that when they walk through.”

This will be Richardsons’ first year working the tour, so she’s inviting friends and clients from around the metroplex to buy a ticket and seek her out.

“It would be fun to make it a girls’ trip – go to lunch, do some shopping

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and enjoy the tour,” Stephani says.

“It’s worth it. You get to see lovely homes and be part of something bigger. You’ll be helping high school seniors go to college.”

Homes on this year’s tour are: Morgan and Thomas Farrow, 9215 Cliffmere; Casey and Matt McCann, 9215 Westwind Court; Jennifer and Reed Wilcox, 9024 Aldwick; Stephani and Robert Walne, 9667 Rockpoint Court.

The home tour will be held 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Dec. 3. The fourcourse luncheon will be served 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Highland Oaks Church of Christ. Tickets may be purchased at LHWL.org. The holiday market, also at HOCC, will run 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Admission is free.

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GAT H E R , ST U DY, P L AY, T H R I V E How centralizing social resources could invigorate communities Story by LIESBETH POWERS & SALLY WAMRE | Renderings courtesy of BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION

FOR A FEW WEEKS IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, the parking lot of Forest Audelia Village will transform into a park exploring a long-term vision for the space.

Project Safe Neighborhood is funding the demonstration featuring daily fitness classes, cultural music, food, drinks and resource-based initiatives such as pop-up clinics and homework help.

During the past few months, the Oak Cliff-based Better Block Foundation solicited input from residents and community leaders to determine how the project should be developed.

“I think some people are still wondering how to use a space like this.

And that’s sort of what this one-month demonstration is for, testing a lot of different things,” says Kristin Leiber, Better Block’s senior project manager. “This is just version one in a multi-step iteration.

We will see several park life cycles here.”

Better Block’s goal is to brainstorm

and execute temporary spaces throughout Dallas that encourage neighbors to rethink how places can be defined and empower them to make changes of their own in the future.

Forest Audelia Village is a central point in the neighborhood, where many diverse communities converge: apartment complexes, single-family residences, a refugee population and low-income housing.

“This park is an opportunity for people of different cultures to coexist in a meaningful way,” Leiber says.

Each activity fits into the roughly 50-by-70-foot temporary park space.

Within that area is a basketball court; open green space with shade, lights and seating; and a children’s play area with play blocks and rubber play tiles. A pedestrian track lines the perimeter, and a crosswalk connects the demonstration to the surrounding shopping center.

One supporter of the Better Block

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project is Jamie Coleman, the pastor of Nexus Community Church, which serves more than 100 families in the neighborhood’s refugee and immigrant populations. Coleman says the park will help newcomers learn about life in the United States and share their cultures with the community.

“Refugees who manage to escape unthinkable violence in their home countries don’t want to encounter the same things in their new backyards,” Coleman says. “Who wants that? This park is intended to reframe others’ perspective about what this space can be, and this is the first step.”

Jake Finch is a single-family homeowner and five-year resident of the Woodbridge subdivision at Forest and Audelia, where he lives with his wife and their four children.

“This intersection has been riddled with crime for quite some time, and neighbors agree that we want to create

an area where all families can utilize a park and feel safe,” he says.

Finch thinks the project can help people see the space in a new light.

“My hope is this park will spark a sense of community, where currently there isn’t one. Once that happens, there will be a collective sense of ownership, and crime will go away.”

The length of this project is different from some of Better Block’s earlier works, where activation and building took less than two weeks.

“I think we’re seeing the benefits of longer, more measured approaches, where we’re able to gather some more statistics that are meaningful, work with partnerships longer-term and then really turn things over after we leave so that they can kind of keep that good work going,” Leiber says.

This has proven true with Better Block’s MLK Food Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in southeast Dallas, which remains an active food park after its temporary installation this spring.

The pop-up park is a move in the right direction for the historically troubled neighborhood, says block captain Denita Jones who has lived there four years.

“We’re often left out of the conversation, and we’re also left out of economic development,” she says. “It’s important for people to feel included in things, to bring the community here and let the community have something to be proud of.”

In Jones’ eyes, it’s also about making clear both sides of I-635 are part of Lake Highlands. The Lake Highlands Area Moms Against Racism, a group she runs and helped create, plans to host its weekly meetings at Forest Audelia Village while the demonstration is up.

Neighbors can see and schedule events on Better Block’s webpage dedicated to The Park at Forest-Audelia. Setup began Oct. 11.

“Neighbors can help with light carpentry, installing lighting and community gardening, down to smaller jobs like opening boxes and painting by numbers,” Leiber says.

The park will host two or three activities weekdays and 10-15 events daily on weekends. The temporary park is scheduled to be torn down Nov. 14.

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NO MONKEY BUSINESS THE CHAUVINS ARE SERIOUS ABOUT ANIMALS

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T

he Chauvin family’s appreciation for the Dallas Zoo extends beyond just occasional weekend visits.

“We feel really strongly about animals,” Robyn Chauvin says. “We love animals. The boys love animals.”

She and her husband, Chris, are co-chairs of this year’s Zoo To Do fundraiser. Since the event began 30 years ago, it has raised more than $17 million, which is used to care and maintain more than 2,300 animals across 366 species.

Robyn has helped organize Zoo To Do in the past. Last year, she was on the host committee for the virtual event. In 2018, she was raffle chair.

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When previous event leaders asked if she would take the reins, she gladly accepted.

“The growth that the zoo has made over the past few years is incredible,” she says. “And we really wanted to support that growth and support something that’s so inherently Dallas; it’s just such a great thing to have here for our kids, not to mention all of the conservation work and the missions that they do to protect and serve animals.”

As a co-chair, she has shaped the theme, “Return to the Wild,” and aesthetic direction of the event, scheduled for Nov. 6. In addition, she selected committee members, planned activities and invited chefs to participate in the outdoor event. This year, guests will enjoy interactive animal demonstrations and live music from Manhattan. They’ll also have the opportunity to support the zoo through an auction offering rare zoo experiences, travel and more.

Robyn is a women’s couture buyer for Neiman Marcus, and Chris is a partner at Holland & Knight. They live in White Rock Valley with their two sons — Christopher, 4, and Robert, 7. Both attend White Rock Elementary School and are active in sports.

In their free time, the Chauvins love eating at restaurants like Mariano’s Hacienda. Chris even says queso is the boys’ blood type. And of course, they love going to the zoo. The boys know their parents are cochairs of Zoo To Do, but they’re not exactly sure what that role involves.

“They want to know if it gets them special access to the animals,” Robyn says. “I think they think that’s what I do, when I’m working out at the zoo, that I’m helping take care of the animals.”

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THIS MONTH IN

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Each November, the somber anniversary on Dallas’ collective mind is that of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which to many remains one of the most devastating events of the American 20th century.

It is little wonder that our city’s inhabitants don’t dwell much on other events of Novembers past. Yet a few forgotten happenings are worth recall. Here in the White Rock Lake neighborhoods, the 11th month marks milestones including the sinking of the Joe E. Lawther and the arrival of captured war prisoners, for starters.

November 1937: Sinking of the Joe E. Lawther dredge boat Every 18-20 years, buildup of lakefloor sludge necessitates an expensive undertaking that involves excavating excess sediment and debris using massive vacuum-like machinery.

The inaugural White Rock Lake dredging launched Nov. 5, 1937, and involved a craft worth more than $6 million in today’s money. Likely considered unsinkable as it left its port on the northeast side of the pond, the vessel would, within a few days, become ensnared in one of our burg’s costliest maritime disasters.

White Rock Lake was in its mid-20s when buildup began causing offensive odors and unsanitary conditions, explained a report by Civilian Conservation Corps, a contingent of young Americans and their officers, who, following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, had

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been working the previous two years to transform the park into the urban oasis we know today.

Relentless Texas sun caused rapid evaporation in the northeast creek, where hundreds of trapped fawning fish died and rotted, according to the report. It was not a good look, or smell, for a Dallas attraction then riding a reputation as The People’s Playground, with all of its private fishing cabins, dance pavilions and speedboat racing.

The report proposed “reclaiming shallow marshlands that had formed at the mouth of Dixon’s Branch,” the creek that flows into Sunset Bay, which at the time was called Dixon Bay, author and Dallas historian Sally Rodriguez says. She clarifies, “Sunset Inn overlooked Dixon’s Bay and at some point it mutated to Sunset Bay.” To do the job, the City of Dallas procured a $31,973 shallow-draft hydraulic

November 1944: POWs come to town

boat and called it the Joe E. Lawther for the former mayor who championed park preservation. Although slated to begin Sept. 15, the effort did not get underway until Nov. 5, and at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 17, Lawther sprung a leak, sending crew members Jesse Perkins and F.H. Luttrell “scrambling to escape” as the craft sank into six feet of water, as told in the text, Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas.

“This book has a colorful way of describing Dallas’ history,” Rodriguez says, before reading passages about the ill-fated voyage aloud.

“At first no one was sure who to blame for the accident. For a while it was rumored drunken CCC workers were at fault, a story that proved unfounded. After W. J. Redman, a professional diver from Galveston, refloated the Lawther, it was discovered that manufacturing defects, including a lack of hard timbers to overcome vibration of the engines caused four leaks in the hull.”

Later that winter, the Lawther was repaired. The dredging resumed and eventually reclaimed nearly 90 acres, 20 at Dixon’s Branch and 68 at the northern end. CCC and City workers used some 500,000 tons of removed silt, according to City of Dallas archives, to fill marshy areas around the lake.

The last dredge was in 1998, and another is expected following a feasibility study, which was approved last year and is underway to determine project goals, risk factors, possible alternatives and associated costs.

On Nov. 20, 1944, 300 skinny, sunburnt, battle-beaten, khaki-clothed veterans of the German Africa Corps rolled into East Dallas and set up camp among the White Rock CCC’s unoccupied wooden barracks.

American workers no longer needed the beds, after all. Pearl Harbor meant the end of that particular park-improving program, as all the able-bodied young men joined the war effort.

The new arrivals hailed from Hitler’s prized expeditionary force in North Africa, which fell to Allied forces in spring 1943. The United States took 400,000 of these POWs, and 200,000 came to Texas.

Mexia, a Hill Country town of 6,000 at the time, received more than 3,000 prisoners, notes author and historian Ronald H. Bailey, who described townspeople lining up to watch the captives detrain, wearing “large bill-cloth caps and goggles that symbolized Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s infamous Afrika Korps.”

A total of 403 of the Mexia prisoners relocated to White Rock. Each afternoon during the Mexia camp’s 11-month tenure, the internees rode a bus to work at the Dallas Regional Quartermaster and Repair Shop at Fair Park, where they mended clothing and equipment.

“In one large room ventilated by three sixfoot-high wall fans, 95 men sit at sewing machines repairing G.I. uniforms,” according to a 1940s Dallas Morning News article.

Geneva Convention rules afforded even Nazis humane conditions — in fact, Texas was a popular locale for POWs due to its climate, which would save the War Department on heating bills and keep prisoners comfortable. Rules allowed POWs to work, provided the labor did not relate directly to the conflict and was safe.

Rodriguez describes the prisoners’ first order of business.

“Upon arrival, they constructed their own enclosure, an eight-foot-tall, barbed-wire fence around the camp’s perimeter, because there was no fence, no need for a fence, before,” Rodriguez says.

She says the prisoners enjoyed relatively pleasant conditions and had no ostensible reason to abscond or rebel. In fact, she points to an interview with the era’s Park Director, L.B. Houston, who considered many of them “artisans.”

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November 1968: The Turkey Trot becomes a Thanksgiving tradition

Top: Barracks near Winfrey Point housed CCC members, German war prisoners and American soldiers in training. Above: White Rock Lake construction occurred in 1910.

“They developed stencils and stenciled a mural around the walls, you know, flowers and animals. It was really an attractive place. They had gardeners. They wanted seeds, which we furnished. They made it a real attractive place,” Houston said.

Neighbors in the 1940s were, as now, concerned then with lake-area goings on, to the extent that one could be during wartime. In fact, at one point the army wanted to use these same barracks as a medical facility to treat women with venereal disease who were associated with, or “followed,” American soldiers, Houston explained. “ You can imagine how unpopu-

lar that thought was to the people of Lakewood and Dallas generally,” Houston said in the transcribed inter view. “ That argument ended shortly with the army deciding not to use it for that, but they did assign it to the Fifth Command. A lot of men, young men, right in the Dallas area, were inducted and did their boot training right at that location out there at White Rock Lake (prior to the POWs).”

As for the later military use for captured Nazis, Houston reported, “If you drove by outside, if you just l o o ke d t h r o u g h t h e b a r b e d w i r e and saw men in there, you probably wouldn’t have realized what it was.”

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It was a cold morning, temps in the low 40s, ideal by runner standards. The Cowboys would play the Redskins that afternoon, but first, 107 competitors toed the line at the first official Dallas Turkey Trot at White Rock Lake.

A tradition at Fair Park throughout the 1920s and 30s, Dallas dropped the event during the Depression, and the Park Board revived it Nov. 28, 1968.

Ralph W. Trimble and Nancy Norvell won the men’s and women’s races, respectively, that Thanksgiving, and all finishers earned a certificate showing “completion of a prescribed eight mile run on the shores of White Rock Lake.”

Today the race, which relocated to City Hall in 1979, draws more than 40,000 entrants and is tradition for many Dallas families. Old news clippings indicate it’s always attracted competitive broods. A 1970 Dallas Times Herald article by Steve Israel profiled the Buckinghams — mom, dad and six adolescent children — who reportedly trained together and were known to take division awards.

The previous year, all eight took home trophies in their respective age and gender groups.

Also in the race’s third year, 29-year-old Miki Hervey, later Miki Snell, a Braniff airline hostess, won the women’s race. Years back, she told The Advocate it was at that Turkey Trot on the White Rock Lake Trail that she met her husband, the famous New Zealand Olympian turned Dallas doctor, Peter Snell.

A newspaper article notes that Hervey, winning again the following year, was a crowd favorite.

The couple was married for 36 years until Peter’s death in 2019.

Sally Rodriguez’ books White Rock Lake (2010) and White Rock Lake Revisited (2014) are available through Arcadia Publishing, arcadiapublishing.com.

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WORSHIP

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By GEORGE MASON

Heart of our city G ra ce a n d g ra t i t u d e m a ke t h i s c i ty fe e l l i ke h o m e

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aving recently returned from a trip to Europe, I can honestly say I am thankful every time I return to our city. Dallas is not just where my house is; it’s where my home is.

What makes a house a home? And what makes a city home? Heart, in both cases.

In the heart of Dallas is a special enclave called Thanks-Giving Square that symbolizes the heart of the city. It’s situated adjacent to civic, commercial and arts districts giving a spiritual pulse to our streets. It seems extraordinary that a municipality defined over time more by business interests than anything else should have something like a soul in the middle of Downtown to remind us that transcendence is not transactional.

Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson more than 40 years ago under the watchful eye of visionary founder Peter Stewart, this unique urban setting inspires wonder and provides respite amid the noisy pursuits around it. The interfaith chapel features a stained-glass spire, the grounds feature water features and shade, and the walls sport murals and scriptures that celebrate gratitude as a spirit that unites people of all faiths and none.

Thanks-Giving Foundation sponsors interfaith dialogues, hosts Faith Forward Dallas (an interfaith coalition of faith leaders promoting justice and compassion), and builds bridges between government, police, business, education, law, medicine, religion and nonprofits. It’s a place of grace, and grace is the gift that gives rise to gratitude. When tragedies strike our city, like the police shootings in the summer of 2016, people from all walks of life gather in its welcoming spiritual space

to mourn and pray.

Kyle Ogden, the president of Thanks-Giving Foundation, reflected last month about the Toyota commercials that ran during the Summer Olympics with the phrase: You don’t have to be amazing to get started, but you do have to get started to be amazing. Noting the vibrant engagement of Dallas people in the volunteer sector, he applied the sports analogy to service. The people who make the greatest difference for the welfare of the world aren’t the greatest people to begin with; they are just people.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said: “Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.

A soul generated by love.”

In truth, the soul can’t be generated by anything but love. If we were to try to feed our soul with anything else, it would wither.

In my three decades in Dallas, I have seen expansion in the social conscience and the moral consciousness of our city.

I have witnessed growing respect and collegiality among faith leaders of various religions as they pursue the common good together. Thanks-Giving Square — the people and the place — in the heart of our city keeps the heart of our city healthy.

Like being amazing, you only have to get started to be thankful.

GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section,

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Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary LAKEWOOD UMC / 2443 Abrams Rd. / 214.823.9623 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am / mylakewoodchurch.org Messy Church for Children and Families Sunday 5:00 pm MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Come & See

Sunday: Morning Worship: 9:30 & 11:00 am Evening Worship 5:00 pm 5200 Bryan Street / mungerplace.org

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Caring for mental health in a digital space › Published originally for Dallas Doing Good.

WHEN THE PANDEMIC BEGAN, NONPROFIT MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA (MHA) OF GREATER DALLAS found itself quickly shifting to an online format to continue to serve Dallas residents, says Executive Director Bonnie Cook. With the suddenness of the order, not to mention the increasing cases of COVID-19 throughout Dallas County, the social norms governing how one navigates the world had dramatically changed, almost as if overnight. By the end of March last year, the self-assessments on the MHA website saw an 86% increase in traffic compared to the month before. But within two weeks of the first order, MHA was prepared to meet Dallas residents where they were — in their living rooms, their bedrooms or even outside on an afternoon walk.

MHA of Greater Dallas has been a leading champion of mental health since 1947. It connects people to resources within the community, organizes support groups and advocates for policy changes to help support affordable, accessible mental health care. “MHA is the catalyst to identify and respond to mental health care needs in our community,” Cook says. “We give a voice to people who don’t always have a voice.”

Even now, MHA’s commitment to mental wellness in the community remains unchanged. Like the vast majority of people in this post-COVID world, “we’ve been thrown into this new, remote environment,” she says. “There is no handbook for dealing with this.” Prior to COVID-19, “mental health care has always been face-to-face communication and outreach.” But the team quickly adapted to new demands and online services.

In addition to moving its support groups online, MHA of

Greater Dallas has added a list of COVID-19 resources to the website in Spanish. Resources include everything from work-athome toolkits and organizations that offer mental health services on a free or sliding-scale basis, to organizations that help with job placements, childcare and food assistance. And because younger children are now spending more time online, MHA has made a shortened version of its Scooter Skunk curriculum about cyberbullying available for free on its website.

The stress and anxiety of “this new normal” is indeed widely felt. But for individuals who have been struggling with mental illness prior to the virus outbreak, symptoms of their illness would likely become more pronounced, especially when compounded by unemployment and food insecurity. “Historically,” Cook says, “a lot of people who do have a mental illness don’t have very good coping skills. Those thoughts of ‘I’m not good enough’ and social isolation make it worse.”

There are so many unknowns about the weeks and months to come, which makes planning for the future especially challenging — especially if an individual is also dealing with unemployment. “To be flexible, you have to be in a particular mindset to be flexible,” she says. Through its collaborative approach to fostering mental wellness within our community, Mental Health America of Greater Dallas is helping individuals from all walks of life grow that particular mindset.

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis or suicidal thoughts, please dial 1.800.273.8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or text TALK at 741741. For help finding a mental health resource, call the Here for Texas Mental Health Navigation Line at 972.525.8181.

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