May 1, 2023 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
By Lisa Tang The Upper East Side of Texas is home to many adventures. Thousands of folks take short trips to the region each year to see animal parks; ride historic trains; boat, ski, or fish on area lakes; tour cultural districts; or pick their own produce at local...
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...
Mar 4, 2022 | ARTS + CULTURE, LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie Ben King Green of Cumby, Texas, had a sly cowboy sense of humor and with a golden gift of gab told tales of his days with horses and cattle. Despite his need for an audience from time to time, the call for wide open spaces during his earthly trek ran...
