Flying Fish Gallery Presents Art Cornucopia
By Tom Geddie At first glance, the colorful clutter of arts and crafts in the Flying Fish Gallery might seem kinda overwhelming. It’s a visual flood of sorts: pottery and paintings, jewelry and fabrics, plants and photography, sculpture and other constructions, and...
Artists Prepare for Show in Ben Wheeler
By Edward H. Garcia Bill Faulkner sets up his video by the side of a narrow street in Callender Lake and focuses it on Don Hollis who is kneeling by a patch of sand and clay, trowel in hand. As Bill makes final adjustments to tape Don harvesting "Callender Lake...
Longview Artist Explores Bright Possibilities
By Tom Geddie Longview artist Anup Bhandari’s paintings are, in a way, like life itself: an exploration of self and bright possibilities. Born in Nepal, in 1980, his banker father, Achyut Bhandari, encouraged his early interest in art. So he found himself in East...
Reading Trollope on an iPod
By Edward H. Garcia For the past few weeks I have been reading Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers on my iPod Touch. An iPod Touch is essentially an iPhone without the phone. The one I have, last year’s model, also lacks a camera, but otherwise it shares most of the...
On Culverts and Best Laid Plans
By Edward H. Garcia We see them all the time around Callender Lake — a young couple, often with a couple of kids "helping out" clearing a newly-acquired lot. They’ll come on weekends for a few months, working on their land and probably dreaming of what they’ll do...
Everything I Know About Relationships I Learned from Vines
By Edward H. Garcia My wife and I have been clearing parts of our property in Callender Lake. We live off the lake and have several acre lots around us—lots of privacy and lots of brush. Every winter we like to get out and push back against Nature and expand what we...
Personalizing Space With Yard Art
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...
Screenwriter Jenny Wingfield Authors Debut Novel
By Tom Geddie For Jenny Wingfield, country life is the life. It shows in the Gilmer resident’s work, from her first published screenplay, the bittersweet coming-of-age movie "The Man in the Moon," to her upcoming debut novel, tentatively titled "Moses Never Closes."...
Music is a Full-Time Job for blacktopGYPSY
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...
Author Joe Lansdale Brings Depth and Entertainment to His Readers
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...
Celebrating Two Great Milestones with DJ Tom Perryman
By Tom Geddie Forgive Tom Perryman if he gets a little picky sometimes. The long-time East Texas radio personality celebrates his 80th birthday on July 16, and "picky" is just about all he knows. "All I’ve ever done is pick cotton and pick records on radio," Tom said....
Texas Women of Strong Will
By Elvis Allen The mores of our ancestors dictated a far more restricted role for women than for men, incomparable to those of today. For some reason it seems that more men of adventurous spirit and independent mind succumbed to the mystic and lure of Texas than any...
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