Mar 18, 2010 | ARTS + CULTURE
By Tom Geddie In this button-down society of side-by-side homes that in more urban areas can be hard to tell apart, one of the great – yet often unspoken and seldom acted on – yearnings is to express one’s self as an individual. For some, that’s as simple planting...
Feb 1, 2010 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie The name blacktopGYPSY says something, as any good band name should, something about the people in it. Black top is what the back roads are made of; a gypsy, in this example, is someone who travels a lot and makes music. The way the words are put...
Nov 4, 2009 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie Imagine an Egyptian mummy on its way from one museum to another falls off the back of the truck into a chemically-induced swamp in East Texas. The mummy comes to life and begins to quietly knock off residents of a nearby, rural nursing home. Two...
Jan 1, 2002 | ARTS + CULTURE, LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
The Tribute to Van Zandt County World War II veterans held on the 60th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor December 7, 2001, was an evening many will treasure for years to come. Canton Civic Center facilitators estimated more than 1100 in attendance with guests coming in from...
Aug 1, 2001 | ARTS + CULTURE, REFLECTIONS
By P.A. Geddie Walking through the fields and trees alongside the Neches River in the southeast corner of Van Zandt County you can almost hear the battle cries, the gunshots, the horses’ hoofs pounding on the grass and dirt, sloshing through the river, and women and...
