Building Nonprofit Leadership for Success
The East Texas Center for Nonprofits (ETCN) offers training throughout the year to help the regions nonprofits achieve their important work. The organization offers a wide range of topics and speakers during the year including grant research and writing, board...
The World According to Hank O’Neal
By P.A. Geddie Hank O’Neal is a music producer, author, and photographer. Named for his father, Harold L. O'Neal Jr. was born June 5, 1940, in Kilgore, Texas. Although the family moved away from East Texas when he was a boy, his deep roots, memories, and many return...
The Art and Influences of Biggers and Criner
By P.A. Geddie County Line Magazine is proud to sponsor a new exhibit titled Student/Teacher: Works by Charles Criner & Dr. John Biggers May 15 through August 14 at Tyler Museum of Art. The show spotlights each individual’s artistic style while examining Biggers’...
Opal Lee Walks Juneteenth to Victory
By Lisa Tang As a child in Marshall, Texas, Opal Lee loved the playful joys of an elaborate annual summer community picnic at a local park. The older relatives called it “Juneteenth,” commemorating freedom for enslaved people. When she was 10 years old, Lee’s family...
Celebrate Spring Along Flower Trails
The first day of spring arrives Sunday, March 20, just in time to welcome visitors to see nature’s most vibrant blooms across the Upper East Side of Texas. Parks and trails offer stunning views of perennial flowering shrubs and trees while wildflowers pop up along...
The Tall Tales of Ben King Green
By P.A. Geddie Ben King Green of Cumby, Texas, had a sly cowboy sense of humor and with a golden gift of gab told tales of his days with horses and cattle. Despite his need for an audience from time to time, the call for wide open spaces during his earthly trek ran...
Welcome Home Ceremonies Honor Vietnam Veterans
By P.A. Geddie In the 1950s most Americans weren’t familiar with a little country called Vietnam almost 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Texas. It borders China to the south, appearing on maps as a small slither of land with 2,140 coastal miles along the...
Susanna Clark: Artist, Writer, and Muse to Texas’ Famous Outlaw Songwriters
By P.A. Geddie “I’ve got a woman I love, she’s crazy and paints like God She’s got a playground sense of justice, she don’t take odds I got a tattoo with her name right through my soul And I think everything she touches turns to gold.” Guy Clark, “Stuff That Works”...
Railroad History Adds Charm to Mineola Architecture
By Lisa Tang The city of Mineola offers a variety of architectural gems built during its past 140 years as a transportation center and railroad hub. Far from a relic of the past, the city continues to lure visitors with its unique charm. Landmark historic buildings in...
Hollywood Screenwriter Kris Hunt Embraces Nuanced Texas Characters
By P.A. Geddie Kris Hunt tells stories inspired by his colorful upbringing in the Upper East Side of Texas. He’s committed to changing long-outdated stereotypes of Southerners as rednecks, hicks, and hillbillies. People from our region, he says, are just as likely to...
A Woman’s Place
March is Women’s History Month, a time dedicated to reflect on the often-overlooked contributions of women to history, culture, and society. Follow the links below to get to know a sampling of the women of the Upper East Side of Texas covered in the pages of County...
Taking the High Road with Sully
By P.A. Geddie On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III saved 155 lives when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the cold waters of the Hudson River off midtown Manhattan. The event — called the “Miracle on the Hudson” — solidified...
Coming Summer 2025
County Line Magazine archives are going to The Portal to Texas History, a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Look for the County Line issues there soon.