From the monthly archives: March 2008
Do you think that everyone who reads your magazine is rich? You print lots of articles about expensive things like the champagne and oysters. (Winter ‘07) Do you think people around here eat like that? The only tuxedos I have seen are at weddings. You people need to get real about how people really live in Grayson Co. and write more things for the average person.
Continue Reading →I’ve got a bone to pick with you. For all these years, I thought the ventriloquists were really singing and drinking water at the same time. Now I find out they use a trick glass! I will forgive you if you will invite my wife and me to the next big party you throw. We loved the piece on New Year’s Eve.
Continue Reading →Don’t print my name because I don’t want to have to listen to the guys at work give me a hard time about this, but I like the recipes! Yeah, I’m a rough tough refrigeration repairman who likes to hunt and fish and cook. Chef Cathy’s recipes are a blast to try out and I have made at least one from every issue of your magazine. Keep them coming.
Continue Reading →I made Ray Bledsoe’s Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe (Winter ‘07) and WOW! I made some serious brownie points when I brought these cookies in to work! They were gone before lunchtime. This is not the first recipe from your magazine that I’ve tried. I’ve made several—most were great, some were just OK. But that may have been just as much operator error than anything else.
Continue Reading →I recently moved south out of the Texoma area but I come back to visit family and friends as often as I can. My mother bought me a gift subscription to your magazine and I’m tickled to be getting it; it’s one more way to help me stay connected to my hometown. When I received the last issue, the anniversary issue, I was thrilled to read the article about Mr. Willie Riles.
Continue Reading →In 1921 Fred R. Barnard in the advertising journal Printer’s Ink first coined the phrase “One Look is Worth A Thousand Words.” He later rephrased the ad headline to read, “One Picture is Worth Ten Thousand Words,” and credited it to an ancient Chinese proverb. The only thing ancient about the line was that he had made it up six years earlier. Regardless, I get his meaning.
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I bought a book off the discount rack at a local bookstore not long ago entitled Quintessence: The Quality of Having IT. On the jacket fly, the author explained the book’s purpose. “This a book about the objects of this world that transcend their form and function, that offer more to us than we ask of them—that rise above themselves to assume iconic stature.”
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Bring color into your spring! Join Texoma Living!, the Denison Arts Council and the Denison Chamber of Commerce for the 11th Annual Spring Art Tour on Historic Main Street. One of the largest art events in north Texas, the Denison tour takes place twice annually in the fall and the spring.
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Walter E. Potts was born in Denison in 1892 and lived to be 105 years old. The son of William and Mollie Potts distinguished himself in World War I serving as one of thousands of “Buffalo Soldiers” assigned to the U.S. Army’s 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions. The 92nd was attached to France’s 4th Army.
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Like all good stories, musician Ruby Allmond’s career had three distinct parts. First was the struggle to gain recognition as a performer, then came three decades as a songwriter, with several Nashville hits, including one top-ten single. No less satisfying was the final phase of defining a legacy.
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Austin College: A Good Investment
Had it not been for the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, our own Austin College might still be in Huntsville.
The $3 Newspaper
Two years ago the Dallas Morning News was $1.50. Today it’s double that and half the size. How many folks are really throwing twelve quarters into that rack every Sunday?
Notes from Alaska
My days are filled with logistics, spending time with guests, attending to the needs of guests and staff, corresponding with guests yet to arrive, and keeping in touch with the goings-on at the knife companies at our Denison office. Grocery orders and supplies are ordered from Anchorage and delivered to the air charter company, then flown out with the guests each Saturday.
