On I-30, 139 miles across Hunt, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, Morris and Bowie counties will soon have 75 mph speed-limit signs posted.
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The 2012 severe weather season is fast approaching. Are you ready for whatever this year has in store? Can you recognize the clues that suggest large hail, flash flooding, or a tornado is possible? Do you want to become part of the severe weather warning system in your county?
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The Southeastern Alumni Association invites you to “Get your Bling on” and attend the Gold and Blue Scholarship Gala and Auction. This annual event raises funds for scholarships through ticket sales and auctions. Gold and Blue Gala committee members are, front from left: Heather Burrage and Rob Piearcy. Back from left: Kyle Stafford, Mary Frank, Janie Umsted, Stephanie Davison and Courtney McGill.
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Northeast Texas Children’s Museum offers an area for imaginative and creative play during a Super Saturday with free admission.
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ZestFest offers a fun and exciting range of entertainment throughout the 3-day event and Fannin County's own Bugtussle Burn Sassy Texasalsa will be there.
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1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory (eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma). The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831. Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease and starvation en route to their destinations. Many died, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee. In 1831, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole (sometimes collectively referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes) were living as autonomous nations in what would be called the American Deep South. The process of cultural transformation (proposed by George Washington and Henry Knox) was gaining momentum, especially among the Cherokee and Choctaw. Andrew Jackson continued and renewed the political and military effort for the removal of the Native Americans from these lands with the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1831 the Choctaw were the first to be removed, and they became the model for all other removals. After the Choctaw, the Seminole were removed in 1832, the Creek in 1834, then the Chickasaw in 1837, and finally the Cherokee in 1838. After removal, some Native Americans remained in their ancient homelands - the Choctaw are found in Mississippi, the Seminole in Florida, the Creek in Alabama, and the Cherokee in North Carolina. A limited number of non-native Americans (including African-Americans - usually as slaves) also accompanied the Native American nations on the trek westward. By 1837, 46,000 Native Americans from these southeastern states had been removed from their homelands thereby opening 25 million acres for predominantly white settlement. These pressures were magnified by U.S. population growth and the expansion of slavery in the South. George W. Harkins would write to the citizens of the United States before the removals were to commence: "It is with considerable diffidence that I attempt to address the American people, knowing and feeling sensibly my incompetency; and believing that your highly and well improved minds would not be well entertained by the address of a Choctaw. But having determined to emigrate west of the Mississippi river this fall, I have thought proper in bidding you farewell to make a few remarks expressive of my views, and the feelings that actuate me on the subject of our removal ... We as Choctaws rather chose to suffer and be free, than live under the degrading influence of laws, which our voice could not be heard in their formation." Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee in 1831: “In the whole scene there was an air of ruin and destruction, something which betrayed a final and irrevocable adieu; one couldn't watch without feeling one's heart wrung. The Indians were tranquil, but sombre and taciturn. There was one who could speak English and of whom I asked why the Chactas were leaving their country. "To be free," he answered, could never get any other reason out of him. We ... watch the expulsion ... of one of the most celebrated and ancient American peoples." A Georgia soldier who participated in the removal wrote, "I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."
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As part of this year’s Grace Presbytery Senior High Youth Connection held at Austin College, over 500 high school students will work together to make 40,000 meals in an hour and a half.
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Park Place Premier Collection is the only dealership in Texas to represent legendary British racing brand
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"Going Green” is the topic of a free seminar set for 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. January 31. The new offering is co-sponsored by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Grayson County College, the Sherman Chamber of Commerce and the Denison Chamber of Commerce.
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Anyone interested in running for Places 1 and 2 must file by 5:00 p.m., March 5, 2012. Deadline for write-in candidates is March 5, 2012. Deadline for candidate to withdraw, Thursday, March 8, 2012, 5:00 p.m.
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Players can purchase a Bingo card for $1 or a discounted pass for all games. Bingo winners will be able to select from a variety of prizes, including gift cards, gift baskets, jewelry and more. One special round also will be played for a Kindle Fire, cover and iTunes gift card. The last game of the evening will be for a Westinghouse 40-inch ultra-slim LED HDTV. Grand prize game cards are not included in the bingo pass and can be purchased for $5 each. Winners of earlier games will automatically receive one grand prize bingo card.
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1948 – death of John Lomax, American musicologist and folklorist. John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs. He was father to Alan Lomax, also a distinguished collector of folk music. In his memoir, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, Lomax recounts how he had arrived at the University of Texas with a roll of cowboy songs he had written down in childhood. He showed them to an English professor, Morgan Callaway, only to have them discounted as "cheap and unworthy," prompting Lomax to take the bundle behind the men’s dormitory and burn it. In June 1910, Lomax accepted an administrative job at the University of Texas as "Secretary of the University Faculties and Assistant Director of the Department of Extension." In November 1910, the result of his collecting labors, the anthology, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, was published by Sturgis and Walton, with an introduction by then-former president Theodore Roosevelt. Among the songs included were "Jesse James," "The Old Chisholm Trail," "Sweet Betsy From Pike," and "The Buffalo Skinners" (which George Lyman Kittredge considered "one of the greatest western ballads" and which was praised for its Homeric quality by Carl Sandburg and Virgil Thomson.) From the first, John Lomax insisted on the inclusiveness of American culture. Some of the most famous songs in the book — "Git Along Little Dogies," "Sam Bass," and "Home on the Range" — were credited to black cowboy informants. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads emerged as a major collection of Western songs and had a profound effect on other folk song students. According to noted folklore scholar, D. K. Wilgus, the book's publication "sparked a great surge of interest in folk songs of all kinds, and in fact, inspired a search for folk material in all regions of the nation." Its success transformed John A. Lomax into a nationally known figure. In July 1933, John and ALan Lomax acquired a state-of-the-art, 315-pound phonograph uncoated-aluminum disk recorder. Installing it in the trunk of his Ford sedan, Lomax soon used it to record, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a twelve-string guitar player by the name of Huddie Ledbetter, better known as "Lead Belly," whom they considered one of their most significant finds. Lomax died of a stroke in January 1948, aged 80. On June 15 of that year, Lead Belly gave a concert at the University of Texas, performing children's songs such as "Skip to my Lou" and spirituals (performed with his wife Martha) that he had first sung years before for the late collector. In 2010, John A. Lomax was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of cowboy music.
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