Mar 1, 2017 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
By Sherry Sereboff “Mister, will you get me out please?” First responder Don Nelson was struck by the 10-year-old’s composure. The boy’s leg was broken and bent. He lay atop a heap of rubble and surviving classmates, sheltered under a fallen bookcase....
Mar 1, 2017 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Elaine Rogers Long before achieving its statehood in 1845, Texas was home to a pioneer population of settlers, rangers, ranchers, renegades and indigenous people, as well as growing numbers of teachers, musicians, politicians and other achievers. Women played their...
Mar 1, 2017 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Someone with more knowledge than most about the accomplishments and histories of local ladies in the Piney Woods is Cherokee County author and historian Deborah L. Burkett, who spent two and a half years learning about women whose stories intrigued her. The result was...