Jul 1, 2020 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tracy Torma This summer marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists of mostly women gathered in Seneca Falls, New...
Jul 1, 2020 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Just a week before she died on July 6, 1957, Lulu Belle Madison White was honored with the establishment of the Lulu White Freedom Fund by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She made significant contributions to help balance equal...
Jul 1, 2020 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Pamela Edwards Some might find their great grandmothers’ quilts harbor more history than they know. What was once thought of as an innocent pastime for modest women might have actually been part of a paradigm-shifting movement. Through meticulous quilting patterns...
Mar 2, 2020 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Samuel Albert Countee was born in Marshall, Texas, on April 1, 1909, and eventually emerged as one of the nation’s most inspiring young artists of the 1930s. While in Booker T. Washington Hi School in Houston, he displayed the heartfelt passion for African-American...
Jan 1, 2020 | FOOD + DRINKS, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
In 1895, 16-year-old Lyman T. Davis appeared on the Streets of Corsicana Texas, and began selling his “ranch” chili from the back of a wagon in front of the Blue Front Saloon. Although no one knew it at the time, Davis was beginning an odyssey that would...
Mar 5, 2019 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie When artist Anup Bhandari was growing up in Nepal, he saw how kind his father was to others, even to strangers. Those memories followed him to Texas as an adult and eventually collided with some people that inspired him to do the same. One winter about...
