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NATIONAL INTEREST


Mount Vernon, Texas, could have


become just another fading


outpost. Folks in town weren’t


about to let that happen.


Some of the heart and soul in Mount Vernon:
(top, from left) Enam Chowdhury, chef at the
Chophouse on Bankhead, one of the hot spots on
the town square; Tom Wilkinson, retired professor
and native son; (middle) Karen Chowdhury, partner
in the Chophouse; Lauren Lewis, manager at
the renovated general store M.L. Edwards & Co.;
(bottom) Teresia Wims, mayor; Henry Ruelas,
construction whiz behind many renovations in town

Small-Town


SPIRIT


Lives Here


By Jody L. Rohlena
Photographs by Buff Strickland

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96 july/august 2019 | rd.com

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