The weekly Tuesday evening gathering at Four Rivers Outreach is a combination camp meeting, pep rally, Alcoholics Anonymous session, gospel song fest, and tent revival—sans the tent—with a leavening of motivational self-help positive thinking thrown in for measure. It starts with introductions. “Who’s here for the first time?” says the woman with the microphone. “Stand up and tell us who you are and how you got here.”
A lifeguard’s work is never done. What does it take to keep your cool at the pool? TLM caught up with two local lifeguards, a rookie and an eight-year veteran, to find the ins and outs of this traditional summer job. Sara Bilyeu, the rookie, is sixteen and a Sherman High School junior. She is a member of the SHS varsity swim team.
One of the things that set Texoma Living! apart is the inclusion in each issue of a long-form profile, usually three thousand words or more, on someone who brings something special to our community. From the beginning, the goal was to offer the reader something more than a superficial glance at the subject. We wanted [...]
In the early 1960s, after seventy years on the sideline, the legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had retired and was living in Stockton, California. At the small home he shared with his wife, Stella, not far from the campus of the College of the Pacific, Stagg lavished care on the grass of his front [...]
“I like to build things,” said Kent Black. He built a log house in Tanglewood, the first home that he and his wife Karen had at Lake Texoma. On the K Bar K Ranch northwest of Pottsboro, the spot the two of them now call home, he built, or rather supervised, the building of the [...]
After more than 500 shows, Dennis McCuistion and Niki Nicastro still do programs about “…things that matter, people who care…”. About ten minutes into the program a loud, chirping fire alarm went off in the studio at KERA-TV, Channel 13, and everything came to a halt. There was no fire, just noise. After a minute [...]
When Brad Underwood took over the stewardship of TAPS, the area’s public transit system, he knew fixing the organization was just a matter of putting the right person, in the right seat, on the right bus. There is a wire-mesh business-card holder on Brad Underwood’s desk in his office at the TAPS headquarters in Sherman. [...]
Dr. Marjorie Hass is the fifteenth President of Austin College, the oldest college operating under its original charter in the state of Texas. At forty-four, she is young for the job and far more attractive than the image the words “college president” would conjure up in the minds of most people. She is Jewish, and [...]
Stephen Olner is best known to readers of Texoma Living! as the photographer who covers most of the major events for our party pages, and for his architectural photography on the pages of our Style section. He is one of those immigrants we don’t hear so much about—coming across the Atlantic, rather than the Red [...]
At the heart of the thing, it is simple. Billy Holcomb loves movies, especially cowboy movies. “I like all of them, and I kept track of all of them—the bad men, the comics. I could tell you who the bad man was and the name of his horse. Everybody knows Roy Rogers and Trigger or [...]
