Thanks for the quick response and for the insights.
@ScruffR, I started with your insights and work in this thread and repo. In my case, I have the 1.54" Module B (B/R/W variant) of the display. So, I was starting with the arduino code that Waveshare shared on their wiki and converting by referencing the work that you had done for the 2.9" version.
I will read through the code tonight and see if I can figure out something that might be blocking the output. Based on a quick read of the logging mechanisms, I am guessing that whatever is preventing the output in this case will very likely be applicable to the serial log handler. The only other log handler that I found was for Papertrail. Are you aware of any other good log handlers?