Nechanitz - The Only One in the World

By JUDY MATEJOWSKY

There’s no place like home! You’ve all heard that phrase before. Nechanitz was a great home to hundreds once upon a time. People from out of our county can’t pronounce it and wonder where on earth it is! Well, it is a mere 10 miles or so northwest of La Grange off SH 77, down FM 2145. Newspaper columnist Leon Hale has visited Nechanitz several times during his career and then reminisced about it in his own inimitable way. Another columnist, Frank X. Tolbert, wrote about his stop here in October 1967 in the Dallas Morning News.

 

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