"Meet the Buckeyes" was held on Saturday, Aug. 10. It is an annual community pep rally at Buckeye Stadium on the campus of Gilmer High School to get fired up for the fall sports and generally celebrate being Buckeyes.
Gilmer Buckeyes Head Coach Jeff Traylor discusses the upcoming 100th season of Buckeye Football at the Gilmer Rotary Club's weekly noon meeting at the Gilmer Civic Center on Tuesday, Aug. 13.
By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b...
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