Red River Station is very honored to welcome back to our stage an American music living legend. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder return Saturday, May 17, 8:30 p.m.

Doris Hsu, GlobalWafers Chairwoman and CEO, addresses the audience in Sherman as the Taiwanese company celebrates the completion of phase 1 at the semiconductor industry's most advanced 300mm wafer production facility and the only one of its kind in the U.S.

Led by dynamic chairs Jennifer and Chris Clark, the evening celebrated purpose and passion. From the stage, Chris Clark, Managing Partner at Forvis Mazars, shared, “The funds we raise tonight will make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Having spent my career working with health systems, I’ve seen firsthand how social factors—like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and reliable transportation—directly impact health outcomes. I’m proud to support the American Heart Association’s commitment to addressing these root causes and advancing equitable health for all across our community.” The Clark’s leadership, warmth, and vision elevated the event to new heights.

To honor and remember our nation's military heroes, Audie Murphy Day will be Saturday, May 17. This annual event is hosted by the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum to celebrate Audie Leon Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, as well as military veterans and those currently serving our country.

Grayson Pride is proud to announce that their Pride Prom is back again for another year. The event will be held at the Sherman Municipal Ballroom on Saturday, May 31 from 7:00 – 11:00 pm. This year’s theme is an "Enchanted Evening: A Celebration of Pride and Magic."

1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. The artifact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. In 2005, a team from Cardiff University led by Mike Edmunds used computer X-ray tomography and high resolution scanning to image inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read the faintest inscriptions that once covered the outer casing. These scans suggest that the mechanism had 37 meshing bronze gears enabling it to follow the movements of the Moon and the Sun through the zodiac, to predict eclipses and to model the irregular orbit of the Moon, where the Moon's velocity is higher in its perigee than in its apogee. This motion was studied in the 2nd century BC by astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes, and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction. There is speculation that a portion of the mechanism is missing and it calculated the positions of the five classical planets. The inscriptions were further deciphered in 2016, revealing numbers connected with the synodic cycles of Venus and Saturn. The instrument is believed to have been designed and constructed by Hellenistic scientists and been variously dated to about 87 BC, between 150 and 100 BC, or 205 BC. Machines with similar complexity did not appear again until the 14th century in western Europe.