Panhandle Yellow Dirt Poetry

Dr. Texas Ruegg got his first name from his great great grandmother. “The family was moving from Tennessee, traveling by covered wagon,” he says, “and my great great grandmother was born in the back of that wagon right as they crossed the border into Texas. To commemorate that, they named her Nancy Texas Arnett. And so down the family tree I get the Texas name.”He lives at Nesbitt, a small place…