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| House on the prairie |
From the time I was in junior high school, the
Aledo Bearcats athletic teams (football and basketball) were terrifying. This
wasn’t because they were so much better than other athletic teams we played,
but because those kids were ‘rough’. We dreaded playing away games because we
had to ride the bus all the way out to this foreboding town, were likely to
lose the game, and might get into some sort of altercation ~ at least that was
what we believed when we were kids. In retrospect, both schools were classified
as 2A (105 to 219 high school students) with the only difference being that
Aledo was a bit more rural than Everman at the time. Now a visit to Aledo is a
nice ride into an area of cattle ranches, prairie houses, and historic
settings.
