If you don’t have your summer travel plans made by now, you’re slacking big time. The price you’ll pay is higher transportation and accommodations costs. Booking early pays big dividends. You can use those Internet travel websites and once in a while get some killer bargains. But a good travel agent can get you those same deals when given a little time and a lot of flexibility on your part.
Author: Dan Acree
Judge Jake Loy
Drive across the Red River Bridge from Denison into Oklahoma without paying a toll, and you have State Representative Jake J. Loy to thank. Go fishing or to a livestock show at Loy Park, and you have County Judge Jake J. Loy to thank. You can even listen to a recording of trumpet player Tommy Loy, and you can thank a doting Uncle Jake J. Loy.
Play Ball!
The importance of baseball in towns such as Sherman or Denison, in a time before instant entertainment attached us to the living room sofa, is hard to imagine. Accounts of the games were the lead sports stories every day, and the coverage easily eclipsed that of the big leagues.
First Among Equals: Former County Judge Horace Groff
There is a large map of Grayson County set into the floor just inside the main entrance of the courthouse in Sherman. The county’s boundries—Fannin County to the east, Collin to the south, Denton to the southwest, Cooke to the west, and the Red River and Oklahoma to the north—are delineated by dark strips of metal, and the four county precincts that existed at the time the courthouse was built in the 1930s are shown in different colored stones.
Icky Twerp Redux: Fade on Confusion
The meeting came to order at three o’clock in the afternoon at the home of George Nolen in Pottsboro. Present in fact were Nolen, Phil Crow and Clem Candelaria. Present in spirit were Ickamore Twerpwhistle aka Icky Twerp, Mortimer Moolah, Gorgon, Captain Swabbie, Blitz and Blotz of department store fame…
Cap’t Swabbie Speaks Out
I enjoyed your tribute “Slam Bang Theater” and my good friend, Bill Camfield aka Icky Twerp. I worked with Bill at KFJZ and KTVT in the 50s and 60s. I’m happy you recalled and memorialized Bill and his many talents. But I would like to make a couple of corrections. Bill’s last name is CAMFIELD, not Canfield.
Nurse Betty’s Never Fail Remedies for Summer Maladies
Long before getting patched up was as easy as a drive to see the doc, our tough-as-nails predecessors had their own, sometimes questionable, remedies for things that still plague us. We suggest that you completely ignore the advice that follows. Read on and be thankful for walk-in clinics!
Loose Wheels
During the 70s and 80s Lucile’s was a honkytonk like no other. Drawing great Texas singers from Gary P. Nunn and Ray Wylie Hubbard to Rusty Wier and Asleep at the Wheel. Tales from those days at the club on Denison’s south Armstrong Avenue.
Fellowship and Fried Chicken
One of the benefits of being a writer is the opportunity to speak to community groups. But I clearly understand that the main mission of the meeting is not to hear me speak, but to have fellowship and eat picnic food on a weekday.
The Downside of Summer Sun
As the summer warmth beckons us to the beach and poolside, outside activities mean more exposure to the sun. That means exposure to ultraviolet radiation and risk of skin cancer. The sun radiates light to the earth, and part of that light consists of invisible ultraviolet (UV) rays. When these rays reach the skin, they cause tanning, burning, and other skin damage.