1. One after another, they gather near the Stone County courthouse square. 2. They sat at the lunch counter in Shraders Pharmacy on the courthouse square. 3. Also, there is that big pecan that sits atop a pedestal on the courthouse square. 4. And they just turned it into a flea market around the old courthouse square. 5. Back on the courthouse square, the night is still. 6. Because the courthouse square is a public area, the groups did not need permission for the rally, Gatlin said. 7. But mostly they come for the Wonderland of Lights festival between Thanksgiving and Christmas on the courthouse square. 8. Daily plate lunches are served, just as they are in every courthouse square in Texas. 9. Farmers who came to town at the courthouse square on Saturday afternoons, whites on one side, blacks on the other. 10. His family lived in a house just off the courthouse square. |