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Tucked
away on a small parcel of land just east of Winnsboro is Hunters Moon
Studio, the home of artist, Bonnie Sir Kegian. "We're taxed on eleven
acres," she said. "But I think we have about five acres left
of the original Ross homestead."
That parcel of land had been purchased in 1862 by her great-great grandfather, A.J. Ross, in an area that was known as the Crossroads, where he settled with his large family. Bonnie's grandmother was one of those children, who in time married and had three daughters...
Wood County Orchestra prepares for new season
The
Wood County Orchestra recently kicked off the 2003-2004 season under the
director of Lex Grantham, of Winnsboro, after accepting an invitation
to
rehearse in the Trails Country Center for the Arts in Winnsboro.
The group,
made up of more than 20 volunteers from across Wood County, is
scheduled to play several concerts and events this season...
Historic U.S. 80 Hi-Way Sale & Cruise in October
A
200-mile garage sale, believed to be the second longest in America, will
be held on two weekends this fall on U.S. Highway 80.
It is the second
annual Historic U.S. 80 Hi-Way Sale & Cruise, to be held Oct. 9-12
and Oct 16-19. It will extend from Grand Prairie, Texas, to
Bossier City, Louisiana. Portions of US 80 in Louisiana east of Bossier
City are also participating...
Tickets
still available for The Vocal Majority at NTCC
Tickets are still available to hear Dallas' internationally recognized The Vocal Majority Chorus, America¹s Premiere Pops Chorus, who will be featured in concert at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community College campus Saturday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m...
A Special Production - "The Guys"
Trails
Country Center for the Arts (TCCA) in Winnsboro and Lake Country Playhouse
(LCP) in Mineola are proud to announce a joint production of Anne Nelson's
play "The Guys." Nick, a New York Fire Captain, is faced with
the grim prospect of writing eulogies for the men he lost in the September
11 attack. Helpless in the midst of his grief, he turns to Joan, a writer
from Oklahoma living in New York. Through the stories that Nick tells
of "the guys" they work to lift the men from the "plaster
saints" portrayed by news media to the men that Nick knew and loved.
In the process, he struggles to regain the joy he had serving as a fireman
for many years. It is a powerful, at times funny and warm look inside
the lives of firemen and firehouse culture...
"Hot times, cool wines, in the pines"
Saturday,
September 27, 2003 - 12 noon to 10 p.m.
Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards in Camp County, south of Pittsburg, Texas
Benefiting the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center
Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards is pleased to announce… the first Taste of East Texas Wine & Food Festival scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 2003. All gate proceeds ($25 admission) from the daylong event will benefit the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center. Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards' proprietors Jeff and Ana Sneed are hosting the event as an expression of gratitude to the community for the kindness, encouragement and support they've received since moving from southern California to establish their vineyard in the East Texas piney woods...
Beginning
Level Fiction Retreat with Novelist Karen Stoltz
September
6-7 in Jefferson, Texas at McKenzie Manor Bed and Breakfast, with reception
at the famous hairsalon and bookstore, Beauty and the Book.
Texas writers attending a two-day writing retreat in Jefferson, Texas
will explore how to build sensory details into their stories, develop
engaging and convincing scenes, create effective dialog, and refine short
story basics with novelist Karen Stolz author of Fanny and Sue and World
of Pies...
NTCC Plans Birthday Bash for Buster Cooper
After
teaching more than 20,000 students, internationally acclaimed tap master
Buster Cooper, will show his own special brand of tap magic at an 80th
birthday celebration in his honor. The Continuing Education Department
at Northeast Texas Community College is producing the birthday tribute
to Mr. Cooper from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 23, 2003, in the
Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community
College campus in Mt. Pleasant.
Jana Bowers, Director of Continuing Education and Corporate Training, said, "We are pleased to honor Mr. Cooper on his 80th birthday with this special tribute. The caliber of entertainment performing during this Birthday Bash will be spectacular....
KWNS
Radio would like to announce that morning personality and concert promoter
Richard E. Foster has received his eighth nomination in a row as one of
the top five disc jockeys in the nation in southern gospel music.
The nominations are voted on by fans only through the singing news magazine...
Something Fun for the Summer - King Kong, the Musical
The
Trails Country Center For The Arts proudly presents King Kong, The Musical.
Written and directed by Bob Hibbard, the main story holds to the familiar,
with original music by Lynne Adler and Lindy Hearne and drum accompaniment
by Rebecca Ratliff and Sandra Pulley.
The opening night performance on July 11th drew a large crowd that enjoyed the show immensely. Tony Grosso, of T&M Meat Market received a standing ovation for his portrayal of the Mighty Kong. Kelly McCoy gave just the right touch to Faye Raye, opposite a winning Bruce Cabot played by Jerrett Walters. ...
Theatre Northeast to present The Bad Seed
Northeast
Texas Community College's Theatre Northeast will conclude their 2002-2003
season with Maxwell Anderson's The Bad Seed, July 17, 18, and 19
at 7:30 p.m., and July 20 at 2:05 p.m. in the Studio Theatre of the Jim
and Elizabeth Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. A thriller-drama,
The Bad Seed tells the progressively lethal tale of a young and happy,
Southern housewife's torment at the incredible discovery that her
little girl, a seemingly blithe and normal youngster, is a cold-blooded
killer. Quite a shocker! It will weave a chilling web around each audience
member that is absorbing, thrilling and unnerving. Tingling, taut, and
dripping with drama...
Bernat supports distinguished lecture series at NTCC
Mr.
Joe Bernatis shown presenting a $1,000 check to Dr. Jonathan McCullough,
Development Officer for Northeast Texas Community College. Mr. Bernat
is one of the sponsors for the next distinguished lecture series featuring
"The Rookie" -- Mr. Jim Morriss...
Theatre Northeast presents Of Mice and Men
Northeast
Texas Community College's Theatre Northeast will present an Alumni Production
of John Steinbeck's masterful drama, Of Mice and Men, June 26, 27, and
28 at 7:30 p.m., and June 29 at 2:05 p.m., on the mainstage of the Whatley
Center for the Performing Arts.
In this classic tale, two men combat the loneliness of their migratory lives with a fiercely loyal friendship bonded by the dream of the small farm they could own if they could ever manage to have two dimes to rub together. Told with great passion and sensitivity, Of Mice and Men is a moving testament of life in our country during The Great Depression...
Blues
on the Bowery
Delta
Blues and Jazz music courtesy of the popular Bobbie Oliver and The Jam
City Revue.
Street dance, food and family fun celebrating Winnsboro's early 1900's
heritage when Market Street was known as "The Bowery".
Enjoy street entertainers...clowns, ventriloquist, caricature artist and
more...
Local author, Helen R. Myers, will be honored at a reception at the Oaklea Mansion on May 23rd from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in recognition of her latest release, No Sanctuary...
Close
to sixty people attended the recent writer's conference at the Trails
Country Center For The Arts that was sponsored by the Northeast Texas
Writers' Organization (NETWO).
Aspiring and published authors came to learn more about the craft and business of writing and meet other local writers. This was the 17th year for the conference and Jim Callan, Conference Director, was pleased with the result. "We were interested to see how this would work since we moved the location after so many years at East Texas College. But it was a marvelous conference. The attendees were enthusiastic and the evaluation sheets gave us high marks..."
Writer's
Conference Scheduled
Northeast
Texas Writers' Organization (NETWO) announces its 17th Annual Spring Writers'
Conference to be held Saturday, April 26, 2003 from 8:30am to 4:15pm.
The event will be held at the Trails Country Center For The Arts, 200
Market Street, in Winnsboro...
I've
heard descriptions like "Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks meets the
Amazing Rhythm Aces." While that puts 'em on the radar, it doesn't
begin to it prepare you for this sound so difficult to describe, which
is at once so familiar and at the same time so unique.
I could tell you about soaring, three-part harmonies, expertly crafted all-original songs, precise arrangements, drop-dead musicianship and a slightly offbeat stage presence. But even that can't prepare you for John DeFoore (guitar/vocals), Dirje Smith (cello/vocals) and Randy Brown (guitar/mandolin/vocals) on stage and live...
"Words Are Your Wheels" Literacy Day
Two
local authors will address literacy issues in appearances at area Wal-Mart
stores on Saturday April 12, 2003. Maryann Miller will be at the Gilmer
store at 10:00 am and the Mineola store at 4:00 pm. Helen Myers will be
at the Sulphur Springs store at 10:00 am and the Mount Pleasant store
at 2:00 pm.
(More information about Helen Myers is available at her official website
helenrmyers.com.)
Something
New for Winnsboro
Award-winning
author and playwright, Maryann Miller, presents two one-act plays for
the enjoyment of East Texas theatre buffs. There Is A Time and
Eternal Affair will be performed at the Trails Country Center For
The Arts, 200 Market Street in Winnsboro, on the weekends of March 21,
22, 23 and March 28, 29, 30. Performances will be at 7:00 P.M. on the
Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:00 P.M. on the Sundays...
Another in the continuing series of dinner and concerts sponsored by The
Bakery in Winnsboro and Trails Country Center for the Arts was held Friday
February 14th for an enthusiastic audience. Nearly a hundred people braved
the inclement weather to hear Ann Armstrong and her musical partner, Steve
Hughes, wend their way through a variety of original tunes and some old
blues...
How to Record Your Family History
Paula
Yost, journalist and publisher and founder of Heirloom Memoirs in Yantis,
will present the film "The Joys and Suprises of Telling your Life
Story" on Tuesday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room
of the Franklin National Bank, Main Street and Broadway, Winnsboro. The
film is funded by the Met Life Foundation and produced in cooperation
with the International Institute of Life Review at the University of Wisconsin
and the Association of Personal Historians...
Award-winning
Country singer, Janie Fricke made a special appearance on the Americana
Music Festival float for the annual Winnsboro Christmas parade. Following
the parade, Ms. Fricke was honored at a reception at Oakley Mansion, the
historic Bed and Breakfast in town. Other special guests included Bob
St. John and his wife, Sandy; Jory and Charlotte Sherman; and Ron and
Barbara Johnson who own Crossroads Country Cottages in Lindale...
Named
the best folk/acoustic act in the 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards, singer
and songwriter, Colin Boyd, will bring his music to Winnsboro for a Dinner
and Concert, Saturday November 16th.
The entertainer's roots range through his earliest influences: the rock-rich
realm of Philadelphia and the blues-blown Mississippi Delta town of Memphis
to his teen-fling with the eclectic electricity of the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex!
Winnsboro City Park rocked for three days during the 2nd annual Northeast Texas Americana Music Festival, which was held October 4th, 5th, and 6th. There was something there for every music fan; Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Western Swing, Rockabilly, and Gospel...
