Listen: How rural Texas finally got electricity — and why it took so long

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joe Holley talks about his new book, “Power: How the Electric Co-Op Movement Energized the Lone Star State.”

A lineman with Volt Power works on a utility pole that is part of a network that stretches along Reservation Road to Highway 290 in the Texas Hill Country.In the 1880s, electricity began making its way into Texas cities like San Antonio, bringing lights, refrigeration and other conveniences of modern life. Not so for rural Texas, which remained without power for another 50 years.Success! You're on the list.

The story of how electricity finally came to the ranches, farms and tiny communities of rural Texas is told in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joe Holley’s latest book,Holley has been the “Native Texan” columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 2013 and is the author of several books, includingHurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City, which earned the Texas Institute of Letters’ Carr P. Collins Award for the year’s best work of nonfiction.

 

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