Bachers Family Presents Lines & Layers Exhibition

By P.A. Geddie Lines & Layers: The Art of Gary Bachers & Christopher Bachers opens July 27 and runs through September 5 at the South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado, Arkansas. It’s the first posthumous retrospective exhibition of Gary Bachers' work since he...

East Texas Author’s Novel Hits the Big Screen

By P.A. Geddie New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover’s romance novel It Ends With Us was made into a movie that releases in theaters on August 9. Hoover published the book in 2016 and describes it as “the hardest book I’ve ever written.” The story centers...

Winnsboro Cowboy Music and Poetry Gathering Happens in September

Winnsboro Center for the Arts presents the 2024 Winnsboro Cowboy Music and Poetry Gathering on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28. The event celebrates the spirit of the Old West and its cherished traditions with performances by acclaimed artists and musicians....

Unleashed Gala Supports Pet Therapy Healing

Therapet nonprofit organization based in Tyler, Texas, provides Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) as well as visitation programs to facilitate healing and rehabilitation of patients with acute or chronic diseases. Celebrating 30 years, their Therapet volunteers take...

Marshall Performance Center Announces New Season

The new season for the Memorial City Hall Performance Center (MCH) in Marshall, Texas, has something for everyone. Georgette Jones kicks things off on September 14. The only daughter of country music royalty George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Georgette started singing on...

Change in Rural America

By P.A. Geddie Through their Museum on Main Street program, the Smithsonian Institution is traveling around America to rural towns during the next year with an exhibition called Crossroads: Change in Rural America. In cooperation with the Texas Historical Commission,...

Make a Summer Splash in Sulphur Springs

By P.A. Geddie Summer in Sulphur Springs, Texas, comes with its own cooling system — a splash pad conveniently located downtown on Celebration Plaza. With a backdrop of the award-winning Romanesque Revival courthouse, the lively plaza —or Town Square Park — is the...

Water Flows, and Passes Into the Earth

By Tom Geddie Part One The old man woke up weak, weaker than usual, a bit overwhelmed by the bright of the sunlight coming through the window glass. He knew that, if he spoke, his few words would be soft and slurred. By late morning, he thought he saw blackbirds...

East Texas Is Getting New Elite Golf Course

A groundbreaking is taking place later this year on Wild Spring Dunes north of Nacogdoches near Mount Enterprise in Rusk County. The 2,400-acre public destination golf resort should have fairways and flags by September 2025 with residential and hospitality develops...

The Music of Will Jennings

By P.A. Geddie The East Texas Symphony Orchestra and singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell are joining forces to pay tribute to lyricist and East Texas native Will Jennings in a concert at 7:30 p.m. June 22, at Rogers Palmer Performing Arts Center on the Tyler Junior...

Farmers’ Markets Deliver Fresh Food and Fun

Living and playing in the Upper East Side of Texas for more than six months of the year means easy access to fresh, locally grown produce. Rural folks and small town leaders know how to make a party out of anything and their markets are no exception. Find delicious...

An East Texas Tale Continues

From Big Bang to Young Sheldon, Now a Spinoff with Georgie and Mandy Houston born Jim Parsons won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series four times for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper in the television sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The show ran...