Jul 1, 2013 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
As people gather in the woods between Tyler and Edom July 13 to remember one of the most horrific days in the history of East Texas, the crowd will include descendants of the Cherokee leader slaughtered, along with much of his family and 800 other native Americans....
Jul 1, 2013 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
What is that thing seen holding down strings on guitars played by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam, Patti Griffin, Bruce Robison, Kelly Willis, and thousands of other musicians around the world? It’s a capo, most likely a Kyser capo that’s...
May 1, 2013 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie Some people’s lives are defined by a single big moment, or at least it seems that way. For Van Cliburn, the biggest moment was back in 1958 when, as a 23-year-old East Texan at the height of the Cold War, he played Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No....
Feb 1, 2013 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie Think of Eric Clapton’s song “Tears in Heaven.” Think of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” and “Valerie.” Or Dionne Warwick’s “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” Barry Manilow’s “Looks Like We Made...
May 1, 2012 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Sissy Spacek’s memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life premiers this month. It’s divided into four sections: Texas, New York, California, and Virginia. Texas, as in Quitman, Texas, is the biggest section, perhaps because in Sissy’s words, “All the things that are...
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...
