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Texoma Living! Magazine Closes

August 1, 2016 Dan Acree

As reported by KTEN-TV on May 4, 2010 After nearly four years and seventeen issues, Texoma’s best-read publication will publish for the last time with the release of the May/June edition. Owner and publisher Dan Acree said the rocky economy of... Read More

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Robert L. Schafer

By Dan Acree

When Robert Littlefield Schafer started art classes, Babe Ruth was still with the Boston Red Sox. It was 1917, and Schafer was five. “My mother saw my interest and enrolled me in a children’s class at a local college,” the ninety-five-year-old painter recalled. That was the beginning of a lifelong love affair.

Category: People, The Arts

Flush with Success

By Dan Acree

“Most houses in Sherman, Denison, and Grayson County have something in them that came from here,” said Jesse Parrish, President of Johnson-Burks Supply. “It may be 20 cents worth, it may be 20 dollars worth, but virtually every house built here has something of ours in it.” From a simple pipe to an entire plumbing system, Johnson-Burks has for the past eight decades supplied plumbing supplies to Texoma.

Category: Business

Steve’s Bees

By Dan Acree

“I never intended to become a beekeeper, amateur or otherwise,” said Olner. “Helping a friend clear some property we cut down a good-sized tree and when it was on its side we noticed a bunch of bees swarming around a hole.” A chainsaw cut revealed at least 10 feet of bees and their honey.

Category: People

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