Posts by: Jerry Lincecum
Over four generations, the Nuckols clan moved west from Virginia to new farms. But all that changed when Virgil Nuckols was transformed from a farmer to the Texas Kidd.
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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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Movin’ (And Groovin’)
Doris K. always enjoyed dancing. Even as Alzheimer’s disease stole her independence, friends who came to visit her at Pecan Point Assisted Living and Memory Care, noticed a familiar twinkle in her eye whenever she heard music.
Palio’s Pizza Café
Alan and Sheila Hardin left Grayson County when Alan’s job evaporated. Now the pair is back in town. This time as owners of Palio’s Pizza Café, which opened in July at Sherman Town Center. Back in the eighties Alan worked for T.A. Reynolds, a hotel management company in Sherman.
First Among Equals: Former County Judge Horace Groff
There is a large map of Grayson County set into the floor just inside the main entrance of the courthouse in Sherman. The county’s boundries—Fannin County to the east, Collin to the south, Denton to the southwest, Cooke to the west, and the Red River and Oklahoma to the north—are delineated by dark strips of metal, and the four county precincts that existed at the time the courthouse was built in the 1930s are shown in different colored stones.
