Sep 2, 2016 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie Many people know and love Andie Kay Joyner as the lead singer for the popular band blacktopGYPSY. She hails from Edgewood/Wills Point and her East Texas family shows up often to cheer her on. Today it is not her powerful, sultry voice however that has...
Mar 1, 2015 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Hattie Brantley (inset) was born April 4, 1916, in Jefferson. She was a lieutenant and nurse in the U.S. Army at the start of America’s involvement in World War II and was stationed in the Philippine Islands when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She was evacuated...
Jan 5, 2015 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie It was 20 years ago this month when a tall, pony-tailed, white-bearded man and his band of dreamers began inviting the public to come experience the East Texas hillside they turned in to a mountain town. Just a few months earlier, the bearded one,...
Nov 4, 2014 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Madison Payne November 13 marks the 40th anniversary of the suspicious death of Longview native and nuclear safety whistleblower Karen Silkwood. Portrayed by Meryl Streep in a 1983 award-winning motion picture, Silkwood gained national attention after voicing...
Jul 1, 2014 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Lisa McKinney Born in Norway in 1815, Elise Tvede lived a comfortable, pastoral life as an upper-class clergyman’s daughter. After the death of her parents, she married Sven Foyn, a whaling magnate, and continued a life of ease until the suffering of others caught...
Jul 4, 2013 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie 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 descendents of the Cherokee leader slaughtered, along with much of his family and 800 other native...
