Hughes Springs is just south of the DeKalb/New Boston area; in SE Cass Co. My mom's place is over by Douglassville, which is great-great-granddad's original Texas homestead -- about 20 odd miles south of Boston/Old Boston/New Boston.

We grew up in the Pittsburgh/Atlanta corridor, a little south of where you grew up; but still "down home".

We used to go camping at a state park near Broken Bow; I too remember that ferry over the Red. For a 9 - 10 year old, it was way cool!

August is a difficult time for me to get out of Wyoming, what with Grand Lodge (AF&AM), Grand Chapter (OES), and Grand Bethel (International Order of Job's Daughters); but I am working on it.

Hope to see you there!

Pickett