I really enjoyed the Spring ‘08 issue. Especially since my grandson, Jeremy Lett, was in the Belk Fashion Preview.
Vista Lett
Sherman
Author: Dan Acree
Not the “Boonies”
I want to thank you for publishing Texoma Living!. I sell high-end real estate and have found the magazine to be one of the best marketing tools I have. So much of the time people coming here from the D/FW Metro think we live in the “boonies.” One look at Texoma Living! quickly dispels that idea.
Letters, We Get Letters
As a motorcycle enthusiast I enjoyed reading your article on “The Bikers Next Door.” The photography was super and it was fun seeing some friends in the magazine. Keep up the good work. This community needs Texoma Living!
T. Randolph
Denison
Oops
Wild Bunch, western movie. Wild One, motorcycles. Check your references.
Joe Henderson
Sherman
Lake Texoma Is Back
From a satellite’s point of view, Lake Texoma resembles a rough-around-the-edges dragon. Last summer the dragon escaped the shoreline that held it captive for 64 years. But raging whitewater didn’t pour over Denison Dam, it was a creeping, relentless flow.
Denison’s Rialto
The Rialto Theater on Main Street in Denison opened on August 4, 1920, and was hailed as “Theater Beautiful.” Talkies debuted at the theater in 1929, with Madge Bellamy and Louise Dresser in Mother Knows Best. In 1932, the Interstate Circuit took control and three years later spent $10,000 to renovate the house with a new box office, awnings, carpet, screen, seats and drapes.
Art Talk
The 29th Annual Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival produced by the Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s theater department begins June 20 and runs through July 19. Guys and Dolls, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and The Complete History of America (abridged) will run at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at 1614 North First Street and The Montgomery Auditorium at 1405 North Fourth Street in Durant.
Fire Station No. 2
You’re crazy!” That was Karen’s reaction when her husband, Tom Shields, said he wanted to leave their comfortable home in far West Sherman to live in a long-abandoned fire station near Austin College. But she’d had a similar reaction in 1985, when he wanted to leave a picturesque Dallas residence and raise their kids in a small town.
Classics, Collections & Renewal
This issue’s Style section is filled with memories. In our first feature we take you inside the home of a Texoma couple whose business life took them to places far away. They met new people, experienced very different cultures, and fell in love with the art and architecture of Asia. During their travel, whenever possible, they acquired objects large and small, and stored them to be shipped back to their Texas home.
Waxing Poetic
Literary Lions
Eustis McGurk was a meek little clerk who worked in a local bookstore. When the circus came round to Eustis’s town he decided his life was a bore.