You know a thing or two about road trips when you’ve been planning them for thirty years. On Vickie White’s first charted motor coach excursion nearly that long ago she took a group of seniors, not the ones in high school, to St. Augustine Texas. The bus made an unusual three stops for ice of all things.
“Would you like a cup of tea, pastor?” The very question made me a little uncomfortable. I drink hot tea occasionally, but not usually with a group of finely dressed women, softly clacking their china cups and saucers together, smearing a slightly different lipstick color on each rim, hair perfectly coiffured, fragrances wafting through the air, a tin of cookies on the table.
The James Family built their log cabin on a spot near the road on thirteen acres in 1993. Mr. and Mrs. James, their daughter and two sons did most of the work themselves.
Cher Ami was hit by German gunfire, but he made it through, arriving at his coop covered with blood and having lost an eye. His message received, the guns stopped the barrage, and the Lost Battalion was later relieved by American troops. The doctors patched the little bird up, even carved a tiny wooden leg to replace the one they had to amputate.
The word “thoroughbred” conjures up images of beautiful, sleek horses sprinting around a track before a crowd of thousands in the Kentucky Derby or the preakness. But there is another kind of thoroughbred, racing pigeons, who speed through the sky in famous international races such as the Mallee Classic and the South African Sun City Million Dollar Race, the premier race for the thoroughbreds of the sky.
I remember as a child riding back to Bonham after following the Bonham Warriors to an out-of-town football game with my family. As we drove home, I would get on my knees in the back seat and look out the back window at the headlights of what seemed like a thousand cars strung out behind us in the night, all going home after the game.
If you look closely at the closing credits of some television documentaries now being broadcast on the new Smithsonian Channel, you’ll see the name of Sherman writer Gene Lenore. Lenore is listed as writer or co-writer on five shows produced for the Smithsonian Channel by Fiveson Entertainment of Virginia.
As heavy rains from Hurricane Ike made their way through Fannin County in September, around two hundred people braved the weather to attend the fourth annual “Justice Is Served” at the Multi-Purpose Complex just west of Bonham. The event featured about twenty different judges, lawmakers, prosecutors, police chiefs and other officials in the justice system serving up barbeque and cold drinks.
The Needlework Guild Association has a long tradition that dates back to its founding in 1885. The Sherman branch was organized in 1929 and hosts two event each year. Proceeds from the events help buy new clothing, linens and toiletries for persons in need. Money raised from this year’s tea goes to purchase more than 2,000 clothing items for hundreds of Sherman students.
Doris K. always enjoyed dancing. Even as Alzheimer’s disease stole her independence, friends who came to visit her at Pecan Point Assisted Living and Memory Care, noticed a familiar twinkle in her eye whenever she heard music.