Nov 1, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie Ally Venable was more than thrilled to play the man’s guitar for a few minutes while he sat at his booth at the Dallas International Guitar Festival and sipped coffee. The man was Gary Hoey, who’s labeled as one of the top 100 guitarists of all time and...
Sep 4, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Tom Geddie It might be easy for so many people to think of Kacey Musgraves’ return to Mineola on September 26 with her full band as the return of a conquering hero, an overnight success. The truth is, as young as she still is at 27, it’s already been a long...
Mar 5, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie When Star Wars premiered in 1977, an eight-year-old boy sat in awe in a dark theater in Paris, Texas. Along with millions of other viewers, he was intrigued with the story of the young farm boy Luke Skywalker who joins forces with a Jedi Knight and...
Mar 1, 2015 | ARTS + CULTURE, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
History was made on April 2, 1935, when a debate team from the small African American Wiley College in Marshall beat the reigning national collegiate debate champions, the University of Southern California (USC). But Wiley would not supplant USC as collegiate debate...
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,...
