Sunday, February 7 2010 3:38 PM EST2010-02-07 20:38:46 GMT
If you drive through the little historic town of Ben Wheeler in Van Zandt County, you can't help but notice the huge "Royal Crown Cola and Moon Pie" mural on the Rave Building. It's quite possibly the only one of its' kind in the entire U.S.More >>
Monday, February 1 2010 11:27 AM EST2010-02-01 16:27:32 GMT
For 29 years, Mike Fletcher rode bucking broncs on the rodeo circuit, even reaching his goal of becoming a world champion. But these days it's his "Spur On Country Church" in a converted hay barn near Mineola that gives him the most satisfaction.More >>
Monday, February 1 2010 12:01 AM EST2010-02-01 05:01:07 GMT
William Moore had spent years building his "William's Architectural Workshop" in Henderson into a lucrative business specializing in beautiful, elaborate staircases.More >>
Sunday, January 3 2010 11:43 PM EST2010-01-04 04:43:32 GMT
Extreme sports telecasts are the fastest growing sports events on television, attracting more viewers than the Olympics. One of the stars of extreme sports in Bicycle Motocross (BMX) lives right here in East Texas.More >>
Tuesday, November 24 2009 2:40 PM EST2009-11-24 19:40:13 GMT
For 20 years Sally Wade was a portrait painter, and even though she met her husband while doing his portrait, she was looking for more in her art.More >>
Sunday, October 25 2009 11:45 PM EDT2009-10-26 03:45:26 GMT
Tyler's Gail Bennett, who plays a number of roles in the production, as well as the role of Mary Poppins during part of the State Fair run, says the "musical is magical."More >>
Friday, July 24 2009 4:03 PM EDT2009-07-24 21:03:27 GMT
Ellie Taylor's paintings hang in galleries in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico; and in homes from Martha's Vineyard to El Paso. But, it's in her studio at Holly Lake Ranch that you get the full scope of her passion for art. More >>
Friday, July 24 2009 3:59 PM EDT2009-07-24 20:59:25 GMT
In 1961, when TV news was covering the Bay Of Pigs Invasion and plans to go to the moon, Vern Dailey and Jerry Haynes were getting ready to launch a children's television show that would remain on the air for the next thirty-five years.More >>
Saturday, July 4 2009 11:30 PM EDT2009-07-05 04:30:12 GMT
Randy Martin's "Flying Fish Gallery" is the first of a growing number of shops helping to make the town of Ben Wheeler a destination spot for visitors. More >>
Saturday, July 4 2009 11:19 PM EDT2009-07-05 04:19:43 GMT
Abby Fender is determined to make it in the country music field, and her appearances on the reality/music show "Can you duet?" just may pave the road to stardom. More >>
Halftime sports entertainment just wouldn't be the same without the precision dance drills of groups like the Tyler Apache Belles, Kilgore Rangerettes, The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the high school, college, and professional groups that have followed in their footsteps. More >>
Kenny Ferro's Special Education students at Kilgore High School may not have the dexterity of the athletes he coached at LSU, Tulane, or the Kilgore High School Football State Championship Team, but they are still winners in his book.More >>
When people say Clay Clemmer rocks, they could mean his music or his profession. Clemmer has written about eighty songs and thought for a time of making music his career. But rocks got in the way.More >>
Bill Terry of White Oak was aboard the destroyer, the U.S.S. Reid on December 7,1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He saw it all from his battle station.More >>
A performance by the Hideaway Power Tap Cloggers may not be as glamorous as the performances on ABC's Dancing With The Stars", but clogging does produce lots of fun and lots of noise. More >>
Bud Frye can look back on a lifetime of basketball triumphs, including his Indiana High School State Championship and a record-setting championship at Louisiana Tech, but the biggest triumph of all came at the age of 70 when his Team USA 70's Division won the World Championship. More >>
Folks in Bullard know Joan Pace as a teacher, newspaper publisher and founder of their popular "Red White And Blue Parade," but now Pace has added another notch to her belt with the publication of her first novel, "Voices From The Heart".More >>
The bustling town of Ben Wheeler, with its stores, restaurants and even a four year college, became a virtual ghost town after World War Two as its' young people moved to the city for jobs. Year by year the town deteriorated and that's how Brooks Gremmels found it when he moved back to East Texas.More >>
Students come from across the state to learn pole vaulting from Carl Erickson. Erickson has produced numerous national champions, been an Olympic Coach and sent students to the Olympic Trials. And yet,More >>
Joe Dodson is one of a number of the country's top horse trainers taking part in this years' "National Extreme Mustang Makeover"More >>
Joe Dodson is one of a number of the country's top horse trainers taking part in this years' "National Extreme Mustang Makeover", sponsored by the Mustang Heritage Foundation. He is training a mustangMore >>
Growing up on a ranch near Crockett, Myrtis Dightman always wanted to be a rodeo cowboy, but it was the turbulent sixties and there were no African Americans in professional rodeoing. At first DightmanMore >>
The American cowboy did not disappear with the Old West. His legacy is still very much alive in the Meyers family, a family of rodeo world champions. Joan Hallmark takes us to meet this extraordinary family. More >>
The Dallas Cowboy Franchise and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders made their debut in 1960. Dee Brock, who now lives in Tyler, was the very first Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Director.More >>
When Kathy Patrick lost her dream job as a publishers rep, due to independent bookstore cutbacks, she took her experience as a hairdresser and her love of books and opened "Beauty And The Book" in Jefferson. More >>
Nancy Boyd's spectacular light show was created as a gift to East Texas. For years before opening the light show, Boyd had decorated the interior of her home extensively for the Christmas season. Her acres of light scenes are now available for all to see. The light show runs through January first and is free of charge.More >>
Just outside the city limits of Palestine is the art studio where renown artist Ancel Nunn painted some of his most famous paintings. Now Nunn's son, William Young paints in the same studio.More >>
Creating a Tuscan villa in the East Texas countryside was a longtime dream of athe Pennington family. After their retirement from other careers, Paul and Mary Pennington wanted to work together. More >>
After driving trucks across America for twenty years, Gerald Hunt signed on to be a contract driver in Iraq. Little did he know, he would face death every day as he drove trucks in convoys across Iraq. IED's, improvised explosive devices, were constant threats. More >>
Guy Gauthier of Longview spends much of his time up in the air. He spends much of the rest of his time helping others stay up in the air. Gauthier has not only been a hot air balloon pilot and designer for more than thirty years, his balloon repair business "Bret", Balloon Repairs of East Texas enables other hot air balloon pilots to practice the sport safely.More >>
A Civil War Reenactment is scheduled for this weekend, October 19th, 20th and 21st. The battlefield is located on Highway 110 North about twelve miles from Tyler's loop 323. More >>
Joe Dodson has done many things in his life, but through them all he's always been a cowboy. Dodson has used his equestrian skill as an actor and stuntman in movies and commercials, as well as 176 episodes of "Walker, Texas Ranger".More >>
Gary Martin received word from his literary agent that his book Professor Thyme's Timeless Tales: Revenge Of The Sargasso Sea Ogre was bought by a publisher on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. More >>
As head of Brookshire's advertising, Jim Powell had been a writer for years, but it wasn't until after retirement that he wrote memories of his childhood growing up in Chandler, in the books "Feed Sack Fashions" and "Them's Funny Looking Catfish". More >>
Down a little country road near Pritchett is a blue building that hardly gets a second glance from a passersby. Yet, inside that building is a company that plays a major role in both world affairs and our everyday life.More >>
Mineola native Matthew Greer is a familiar face to movie and TV audiences, appearing in such popular motion pictures as Ruffian and The Mist, and the television series Friday Night Lights, Prison Break, and Walker, Texas Ranger. More >>
Between them, Ray Price snd Tom Perryman have spent more than a hundred years in Country Music, and each in his own right has achieved greatness. Ray Price has had 130 top ten hits and his recording of "For The good Times" is still the biggest all time hit in radio. More >>
From an underground fighter in the Philippines to a prominent pathologist in America, Dr. V. V. Gonzalez's life is quite a story. Dr. Gonzalez was a medical student in Manilla when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and invaded the Philippines.More >>
Sherri Arena had always dreamed of owning a blueberry farm, so her husband Chuck bought Blueberry Hill Farms in Edom. Problem was, the Arenas didn't know anything about farming and almost lost their blueberry bushes before they learned how to care for them from the Internet. More >>
Marilee Rabb Chapman has been writing since she was a child. As a teacher she wrote "The Shocking Pink Duck", chosen by Louisiana as their Bicentennial Book Most Representing Our American Heritage, but it is her most recent book "Appleseeds Of Love" that has been her most challenging work.More >>
Right in the middle of the Van Zandt town of Grand Saline sits the Salt Palace. Salt has been intertwined with Grand Saline from the beginning. Salt was first discovered in Grand Saline by the Caddo Indians who used salt from the salt prairie in trading.More >>
When Belle Branscomb's son Scott was born he seemed perfect. But by the age of three, she knew something was wrong. After consulting many doctors, it was determined that Scott's brain had been deprived of oxygen sometime during birth. He didn't fit any label but was just "slow".More >>
Although Teri Sawyer has 22 successful years in food service to her credit, she started out as an x-ray technician who, as the old saying goes, couldn't even boil water. Hoping to impress the man she wanted to marry, Teri served him food cooked by her co-workers. More >>
Maurya Beth Pinion teaches dyslexic children at Vivian Fowler Elementary School in Mt. Pleasant. Although she finds teaching very gratifying, art has always been Pinion's first love.More >>
Zeke and Marty Zewick, who described themselves as "two little hippies", moved to Edom in 1976. The establishment of an art colony in the little farming community was a move that many domed to failure. And yet, 31 years later the art colony and the town are booming. More >>
There's a long-term controversy about whether talent is in our genes or nurtured by our environment. In the Lansdale home, the answer could be both.More >>
New Zealand Chef Simon Webster says everybody questioned his opening a restaurant "out in the middle of nowhere" in East Texas. But the move has proved to be everything he dreamed it would beMore >>
At T.K. Gorman High School, Susana Gibb was known for her fast pitch softball and as one of the schools' smartest and prettiest cheerleaders. Fast forward a few years, and you'll see her starring on the lifetime series "Inspector Mom". More >>
It was angels who heralded the birth of Jesus on our very first Christmas and it is angels who remain one of our favorite symbols of Christmas. More >>
Thanks to Gussie Nell Davis and the Kilgore Rangerettes, football half-times throughout the country are now filled with entertainment and glamour.More >>
In 1933, while the remainder of the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, East Texas was abundant with oil and roses, setting the stage for the first Texas Rose Festival. More >>
Just about the worst things that could happen to a woman happened to Jacqueline Browning all in one year and yet her story is one of triumph over tragedy. More >>
The Yamamoto empire came about through fishing. Gary is one of the world's top pro bass fishermen and developed Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, sold worldwide. More >>
This is the 40th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek on television and one Tyler couple has an entire room devoted to Spock, Kirk and their friends. More >>
Tom Townsend's 27th book is set right here in East Texas. More >>
Most of Tom Townsend's 27 published books are for young adult readers and many of them are historical fiction. His most recent book "The Ballad Of Ole' Hook" is about a bull calf, striving to stay alive,More >>
This is the year of the baby boomer and baby boomer Judith Lynne is well on her way to becoming an international recordig star. More >>
A number of famous baby boomers, including President Bush, Suzanne Summers, and Paul McCartney celebrate their 60th birthdays this year. But while they've made their mark, East Texan Judith Lynne is justMore >>
Although gemologist Linda Adler has designed jewelry for soap stars, it's antique jewelry and its history that intrigues her. More >>
Although gemologist Linda Adler has designed jewelry for soap stars, it's antique jewelry and its history that intrigues her. Adler has dealt in estate jewelry for the past 26 years. She says she canMore >>
When Jim and Cherry Day met and married four years ago, they not only found a new and special life in East Texas, they found new careers as artists. More >>
When Jim and Cherry Day met and married four years ago, they not only found a new and special life in East Texas, they found new careers as artists. "Sitting around watching the birds is one of the More >>
It's said that anybody who's been connected with the horse industry in any way, for any length of time, has seen Matlock Rose, heard of him, or read about him. More >>
From the trees of the forests to music of the heart, Jay Pepper of Union Grove handcrafts beautiful dulcimers from East Texas woods. Pepper first fell in love with dulcimer music during a visit to Tennessee. He's been playing dulcimers, and making them, ever since. More >>
Father, Grandfather, Attorney, Telethon Host, War Hero, Football Star and Author, are only a few of the titles used to describe Longview's R.E. Peppy Blount. More >>
Joseph Hopps' customers see his birdhouses as whimsical woodland Castles for gnomes, hobbits, or little people. But Hopps is quick to point out that birds love them too. Hopps began his art career as a painter. More >>
Tyler's 18th Annual Cattle Baron's Gala is scheduled for ths coming Saturday, June 11th. With the patriotic theme "Stars And Stripes Forever", entertainer Neal McCoy is a perfect choice to headline the event. More >>
Cousins Cathy Pegues and Karen Musgraves have a long family history of painters, quilters, potters and writers, so it's no surprise that they're making their mark in the art world, too.More >>
Although Boney has produced over two thousand pieces of metal art over the past two years alone, he has no studio in his Longview home and prefers to work outside, no matter how extreme the weather might be. More >>
For Mary Jane McNamara, the greatest satisfaction of her long career has been to touch lives in ways that have made things a little easier and people a little happier. More >>
Most of us tend to take our fire fighters pretty much for granted until we have to do without them. In the East Texas community of Lands End at Lake Fork, TJ Henshaw set out to establish a fire department in his area that previously had been unprotected. More >>
Many of our Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas tree, came originally from Germany. In the Frankston home of Margaret Morehead, generations of German Christmas traditions are preserved. More >>
Stories, and hours watching western movies as a boy nurtured Bill O'Neal's love of history and inspired him to write twenty-six books, including his latest, "Sam Houston Slept Here." More >>
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