Don Gebert moved “to the middle of nowhere” in the early 1970s and had to have an electrician run a line for half a mile in the piney woods 30 miles north of downtown Houston just to light up his newly built home.

A pastor from Philadelphia, he had come to develop social services in what would become The Woodlands — an innovative master-planned community envisioned by Texas billionaire George Mitchell. The arrival of Gebert’s seven-member family increased the population by 10 percent. click here for complete story