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MPO: Driving Force

August 21, 2009May 17, 2011 Dan Acree

Highway projects are everywhere you drive. Who is responsible for what gets built? The MPO is where it starts.

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Chocolate Heaven

By Dan Acree

Anjanette’s Chocolate Café & Truffle Shoppe is on the square in Gainesville across from the Cooke County Courthouse. Inside, on the wall, is a mural depicting historic downtown Gainesville. There are a classic silver candelabra and big leather chairs, and stacks of decorative gift boxes adorned with ribbons imprinted with the store’s tagline, “For the Love of Chocolate,” which sums things up nicely.

Category: FOB

Reba Browning and Glenn Spelis

By Dan Acree

In another life, Reba Browning was an educator, working with children as a teacher and principal. Her husband, Glenn Spelis, was a U.S. Customs agent, a pilot who flew across North America and South America pursuing drug smugglers by air. Today, they have a new life, working together to create sculptures that enhance their environment.

Category: People, The Arts

Quilts

By Edward Southerland

Quilting reaches back before recorded history. Quilts were made in the shadows of the Pyramids. In America, though quilts are often associated with Colonial times, they were actually rather rare. Early American homemakers had their hands full with spinning, weaving, and sewing and had little time for quilting.

Category: Style

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