Shaping Harmony
While gathering and writing stories for the September/October 2024 County Line Magazine, I was reminded how we humans often mindlessly view others, relying on our “experience filters” in our brains to form quick opinions of who they are and where they belong. Some...
Callizo Aromas is Opening New Facility in Palestine, Texas
The Costa Rica-based fragrance company Callizo Aromas is opening a new facility in early 2025 in Palestine, Texas. The company produces scents and flavors for various industries with divisions in fragrances, flavors, pets, and zootechnics. Their other facilities are...
Unleashed Gala Supports Pet Therapy Healing
Therapet nonprofit organization based in Tyler, Texas, provides Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) as well as visitation programs to facilitate healing and rehabilitation of patients with acute or chronic diseases. Celebrating 30 years, their Therapet volunteers take...
Marshall Performance Center Announces New Season
The new season for the Memorial City Hall Performance Center (MCH) in Marshall, Texas, has something for everyone. Georgette Jones kicks things off on September 14. The only daughter of country music royalty George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Georgette started singing on...
Change in Rural America
By P.A. Geddie Through their Museum on Main Street program, the Smithsonian Institution is traveling around America to rural towns during the next year with an exhibition called Crossroads: Change in Rural America. In cooperation with the Texas Historical Commission,...
Make a Summer Splash in Sulphur Springs
By P.A. Geddie Summer in Sulphur Springs, Texas, comes with its own cooling system — a splash pad conveniently located downtown on Celebration Plaza. With a backdrop of the award-winning Romanesque Revival courthouse, the lively plaza —or Town Square Park — is the...
Farmers’ Markets Deliver Fresh Food and Fun
Living and playing in the Upper East Side of Texas for more than six months of the year means easy access to fresh, locally grown produce. Rural folks and small town leaders know how to make a party out of anything and their markets are no exception. Find delicious...
An East Texas Tale Continues
From Big Bang to Young Sheldon, Now a Spinoff with Georgie and Mandy Houston born Jim Parsons won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series four times for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper in the television sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The show ran...
Tamale Pie Recipe
By Lyndsay Caldwell I love tamales. No matter if I’m buying them for a dollar on the beach in Mexico, by the dozen from a friend’s mom, or randomly from the meat market in Mount Vernon, I love them. I do not have time to make them. They are truly a labor of love and...
Writing on the Wall
By Tom Geddie Bart Soutendijk saw the writing on the wall. And the pictures, too. The former technical writer retired from the fiber optics industry and moved from Fort Worth to Quitman about 25 years ago with his wife, Liz, to pursue art full time. Writing — and...
The Older, the Better
The Upper East Side of Texas is home to some of the oldest festivals and other special events in Texas. Long-standing car shows, holiday parades and events, rodeos, fishing tournaments, county fairs, and carnivals are too numerous to mention as are farmers’ markets,...
Farmers’ Markets Deliver Fresh Food and Fun
Living and playing in the Upper East Side of Texas for more than six months of the year means easy access to fresh, locally grown produce. Rural folks and small town leaders know how to make a party out of anything and their markets are no exception. Find delicious...
Coming Summer 2025
County Line Magazine archives are being entered into 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.