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A silent night scene in a little Texas town became a ruckus FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 These days there are no Blooming Grove Christmas pageants, but the City Hall Lobby is festive.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 2of6 3of6 Falling cotton prices and the Great Depression hit Blooming Grove hard.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 4of6 5of6 Blooming Grove, the self-proclaimed “friendliest little town in Texas,” is quiet these days.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 6of6 The historic Blooming Grove United Methodist Church building was constructed in 1902.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less BLOOMING GROVE Journalism professor David McHam, a University of Houston legend, got his start as a newsman in the mid-1950s at the Waco Times-Herald. That’s how he knew about his friend Jules Loh’s assignment to write about the 1956 Christmas pageant in this little town near Corsicana. Loh made the 50-mile d ....