Mar 1, 2017 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Elaine Rogers Long before achieving its statehood in 1845, Texas was home to a pioneer population of settlers, rangers, ranchers, renegades and indigenous people, as well as growing numbers of teachers, musicians, politicians and other achievers. Women played their...
Mar 1, 2017 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Someone with more knowledge than most about the accomplishments and histories of local ladies in the Piney Woods is Cherokee County author and historian Deborah L. Burkett, who spent two and a half years learning about women whose stories intrigued her. The result was...
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...
