It seems appropriate that one of the voices behind the Doo-Wop classic “Cherry Pie,” Emory Perry, grew up on Music Street in Sherman. “Everybody on Music Street played an instrument,” he said. His mother took in extra work to make the $45 to buy him an alto saxophone.
Fishing on Lake Texoma took on a new twist when the lake got its first stock of Striped Bass. A species known for its voracious appetite and extreme power, stripers, or rockfish or linesiders or rollers or squidhounds or greenheads or, if you are of an ichthyologic bent, Morone sasatilis, are saltwater fish that spawn in fresh water.
Most kids draw dogs and bunnies, airplanes and cars: Terry Spearman drew politicians. Actually, he was probably past the bunny stage when he began doing political cartoons for the Durant Daily Democrat, but it seems unlikely that bunnies ever came off his pencil, even when he started.