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Investment Lessons From 2020

As the year draws to a close, it’s fair to say that we’ve all learned something about the social, political, physical and environmental forces that have affected everyone. And, in some ways, our lives will be changed, perhaps permanently. But as an investor, what lessons can you learn from 2020?

Holiday at the Arboretum, Presented by Reliant, Features Expanded Christmas Village with New 23-Foot-Tall German Christmas Pyramid and New Shops
Holiday at the Arboretum, Presented by Reliant, Features Expanded Christmas Village with New 23-Foot-Tall German Christmas Pyramid and New Shops
Holiday at the Arboretum, Presented by Reliant, Features Expanded Christmas Village with New 23-Foot-Tall German Christmas Pyramid and New Shops

Holiday at the Arboretum, Presented by Reliant, Features Expanded Christmas Village with New 23-Foot-Tall German Christmas Pyramid and New Shops

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden invites visitors to experience one of the most magical traditions in the Southwest-Holiday at the Arboretum, presented by Reliant, which runs from November

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Thomas Layden, one of the earliest pioneers of the Irish Ridge neighborhood, railroad construction contractor, landowner and farmer, inventor and banker

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Thomas Layden house on the Irish Ridge, probably built late 1880s or early 1890s

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Mike Talty Store, about 1912

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Coats School, Valley View neighborhood, 1930s. Photo courtesy of Ola (Criswell) Feagin

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Trail’s Talty gin, the last operating cotton gin in Forney Country, 1997. Photo by Jerry M. Flook

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Pleasant Springs School, about 1899. Teacher believed to be John A. Bryan. Photo courtesy of Terrie (Briscoe) Scafidel

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William Dykes house, Pleasant Springs neighborhood, probably built in the 1880s. The house stood on the east side of Ray Hubbard Drive near the Rockwall County line. Woman unidentified

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Newt C. Whittemore house, Pleasant Springs neighborhood, about 1900. The house stood on the west side of FM 740 about 0.6 mile north of Ray Hubbard Drive intersection. L to R: Clarence Whittemore, Nannie Whittemore

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Home of family of Isaac Briscoe (of William), Pleasant Springs neighborhood, about 1900. The house stood on the south side of Ray Hubbard Drive about 0.5 mile west of FM 740. Photo courtesy of Terrie Scafidel

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Home of Alan McMahan family, Buffalo neighborhood on the Forney-Rockwall Road, about 1910. Many rural families had water wagons such as the one seen here. L to R: Maggie, Ollie, Nettie, Glen McMahan and Ella Mae Hughes (in front). Photo courtesy of Nettie McMahan Tune

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Last week’s article concluded with the Community of “Antioch,” which some residents considered actually just a part of the “Lone Elm” neighborhood.

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