Winter Warm & Fuzzy Fun

Winter Warm & Fuzzy Fun

While things slow down a bit in January, there’s still plenty to choose from to create warm and fuzzy memories. We’ve collected a few highlights here. Be sure to check the visitor pages of our thriving communities to find even more fun and reasons to smile during this...
Pleasant Hill Quilters Demonstrate Undertold Stories

Pleasant Hill Quilters Demonstrate Undertold Stories

Clad in colorful handmade bonnets and aprons, the Pleasant Hill Quilters of Linden, Texas, work to decode and preserve a cryptic fragment of history, explaining how multitudes of illiterate people escaped slavery. Through meticulous quilting patterns and robust song...
Entrepreneurial Student Arts Program Opens in Edom

Entrepreneurial Student Arts Program Opens in Edom

The Edom ART Lab is a nonprofit organization embracing fine arts as an entrepreneurial exercise in an after-school program for students age 9 and up. As part of the business simulator program, each participant is involved in each of the fine arts workshops, including...
New Hank O’Neal Book Shares Jazz Stories

New Hank O’Neal Book Shares Jazz Stories

More Than the Music features 27 unique jazz stories told by Hank O’Neal through his own experience. “Most of them began so long ago, even as far back as the 1950s during my teenage years,” he writes in his book description. “In those days, jazz was still the new kid...