Mar 1, 2023 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
The Longview Arboretum and Nature Center is a masterfully designed 26-acre garden near the city’s convention center complex. The grounds feature several lovely settings with a variety of landscapes with terraced gardens, waterfalls, and arbors among thousands of...
Feb 24, 2023 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
When County Line Magazine featured Trammel’s Trace in the May/June 2022 issue we recognized the significance of the ancient road, in the settling of East Texas. Now Texas Country Reporter’s Bob and Kelli Phillips share historian Gary Pinkerton’s...
Feb 1, 2023 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Julie Parker With five children, a husband, and a family insulation business, Angela Hampton registered for jewelry classes during a busy time of her life. “Wesley (her husband) told me to chase my dream,” Angela says. Having taken numerous art courses at the...
May 4, 2022 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Lisa Tang As a child in Marshall, Texas, Opal Lee loved the playful joys of an elaborate annual summer community picnic at a local park. The older relatives called it “Juneteenth,” commemorating freedom for enslaved people. When she was 10 years old, Lee’s family...
May 1, 2022 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
By Gary L. Pinkerton It is difficult to imagine the terrain of East Texas when there was almost nothing across the countryside. Finding places today where cell towers, high-voltage power lines, railroads, and ranches disappear from our field-of-view is a challenge to...
Mar 4, 2022 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
The first day of spring arrives Sunday, March 20, just in time to welcome visitors to see nature’s most vibrant blooms across the Upper East Side of Texas. Parks and trails offer stunning views of perennial flowering shrubs and trees while wildflowers pop up along...
