Bob Wills Fest 2024 Set for November 1-2
The 10th Annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival & Contest is returning to Greenville on November 1 and 2. Honoring an American tradition and treasure, the event is unique to the City of Greenville. It’s about fiddling and fiddlers and the best of competitions, and about...
Tyler Film Festival 2024 Winners Announced
The 2024 Tyler Film Festival, presented by Dobbs & Porter, brought together a diverse array of filmmakers and cinephiles during the three-day event at Liberty Hall September 12-14. The festival premiered 25 short films from over eight countries with various...
Fall in Forney Includes Inspiring Art Gatherings
The Forney Arts Council (FAC) presents several events this fall featuring fine art and artisan products. The Downtown Forney Market takes place October 12 and again on November 9 on the grounds of Murray Cotton Gin, and The Autumn Art Show Pop Up & Sale is...
My Life as an Electric Toothbrush
By Ed Garcia I am two years into my eighties, so naturally, my thoughts and conversations often turn to aging and the next thing that happens after aging. For no good reason, this has led me to think about my electric toothbrush. I don’t leave the toothbrush in its...
Black Cowboys
Give me a home, where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. The iconic lifestyle of the American cowboy is glamorized in books and film often depicting grueling work...
Boogie Woogie Highway
By P.A. Geddie In the late 1800s, trains filled the air with melodic background noise for the families of railway laborers living among the piney woods of the Upper East Side of Texas. The rhythm of the Texas and Pacific Railroad steam engine trains — running parallel...
Boogie Woogie Marshall 2024 Scheduled
Boogie Woogie Marshall 2024 takes place September 27-29 celebrating the influences of the music that got its start in the piney woods and railroad towns of East Texas. Scheduled are live performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Daryl Davis, Wes Jeans, Sarah Hobbs, Yogoman...
Fall Fun in the Upper East Side of Texas
East Texans know how to take full advantage of celebrating rural living when the weather starts to cool and people want to get out and soak up the area’s natural beauty and talents. A few highlights are noted here and elsewhere in this publication and find more...
Experience Prehistoric Wonder in McKinney
Dinosaurs Live is now on exhibition at The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney through February 17, 2025. In its 19th year, it promises to captivate visitors of all ages with life-size animatronic dinosaurs and a prehistoric experience....
Take a Mural Walk in Historic Terrell
The annual Terrell Mural Walk takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. October 5 in historic downtown Terrell. This year’s event celebrates the 125th anniversary of the first automobile drive in Texas. On October 5, 1899, Colonel Green took his new horseless carriage from...
See Forward Facing Exhibition at Tyler Museum
Pictured is “Jazmin” by Yasuyo Maruyama. See her work and three other Texas-based artists, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Guadalupe Hernandez, and Delita Martin, in Forward Facing — A Look at Contemporary Portraiture at Tyler Museum of Art through December 1. Tyler Museum of Art...
Winnsboro Art & Wine Fest Set for Early November
The 2024 Winnsboro Art and Wine Festival is a weekend celebration of artistic expression, regional wines, culinary treats, and live Texas music. With free admittance, the festival is open from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, November 1 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday,...