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It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the day before we take this issue to press, and I am just sitting down to write this Publisher’s Note. I have become a procrastinator. But who could blame me? Although the outdoors has been a big draw, with sunny temperatures below 90, that’s not the only reason I waited until the last minute to sit down to write. We have had so many exciting things happen this month at Piney Woods Live, that we’ve all become just a bit sidetracked. We’ve introduced two new members to our staff – Tracy Stopani and Lori Martin. Both are talented marketers who will help our customers get great results from their ads in Piney Woods Live. And then there’s the thrilling news that, with this issue, we have almost doubled in size from any of our previous issues. Along with that comes the happy coincidence that this month, Gary Krell and I are starting our fourth year as publishers of the magazine. Time really does fly when you’re having fun, and we are having a lot of fun! The August issue of Piney Woods Live is centered around the fine arts in education. We talked to several different fine arts teachers of different artistic genres in high schools from around the piney woods, and they all agree that students who participate in the fine arts as part of their educational experience benefit in many ways, including better grades in subjects that are part of the basic curriculum. But they also, in general, have a healthier sense of self and are more likely to be more self-confident as they move through the world. We all agree that these programs must continue! We are happy to announce the formation of the School of Music in Longview, founded by well-known national and local musicians Ricky Lynn Gregg, Sammy Brasher, Terry Salyer, Bobby Claire, and Dale Phillips. The school, open to all ages, will also have a program in place for special needs students. We are also very excited to introduce Charles Douglas Jones, a professor emeritus at the Stephen F. Austin School of Art. A resident of Nacogdoches, he is a musician, painter, printer, sculptor, poet, a granddad, and a writer. He has written Chopper Blues, the story of his experience in - William Morris Vietnam as part of the second platoon of “Charley Company,” 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, a group that was otherwise known as “Suicide Charley.” The book is deeply personal, powerful, and visual. It is very important that we include Charles Douglas Jones and his book in this issue because we have made the very important decision to expand the distribution and scope of the magazine to Nacogdoches. “Nac” has a whole lot of art and music going on in the city, especially because it is the home of Stephen F. Austin State University, well-known for its arts and music programs. We want everyone to be a part of that city’s artistic vibe. So, with our key cities being Tyler, Longview and Nacogdoches (the Piney Woods golden triangle), we feel like Piney Woods Live will bring to you the art and entertainment news you need to know in all three cities and everywhere in between. So, if you live in Nacogdoches, start looking for us. Our magazine and our staff will be out and about. Let us know what is going on in your town. Send us your events so that we can post them on our website! Send us story ideas! Are you a good freelance writer? Send us your resumé! Do you want to earn some extra money by distributing the magazine in your area? Email us! Send any news or suggestions you may have for us at publisher@pineywoodslive.com. We love hearing from you. August is a good time for new beginnings with school going back into session. For the staff of Piney Woods Live magazine, it’s a good time to plan for the next three years and see where it takes us. How very exciting!

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“When we walk down that road, we look out across the blue green waters of the Bay of Naples.”

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The museum-like surroundings of the Gladewater home of Stephani and Allen Chance combine the interest of a gifted collector with the whimsicality and good humor of the homeowners. Stephani is the collector in the family. She h been collecting all her life. She says she has inherited her interest in collecting from her in grandparents. “My granddaddy was a collecgr ttor of beautiful and rare things,” she laughed. “Their old three and a half story castle of a “ h house was filled with gorgeous things from tthe Old World. I grew up with strange lookiing “people,” which they called bronze statu ues and very white looking “people,” some w with arms and some without arms. They said tthese were marble statues from Europe.” After she retired from 16 years of workin ing as a paralegal in Fort Worth, Stephani m moved to Gladewater and opened her busin ness, Decorate Ornate, because she wants to help people decorate, and she most definitely likes things when they are ornate. Since that time, her adopted community has awarded many honors. In 2012, she was named Woman of the Year by the Gregg County Gladewater Chamber of Commerce. She has been voted “Best of East Texas” by the Longview-News Journal, and she has been featured in Home Décor Magazine. She has been a featured speaker at the Dallas Country Club, is a Main Street Board Member and serves as their Head of Design. True to its name, she has filled her business with ornate and unusual objects she finds during her buying trips to Italy, France and Germany. She takes two small-size groups on tours to Italy twice a year. She says her dear friend Tony guides her to the best places to collect in Italy. “Tony is like my second dad,” Stephani said. “Tony and his family have become my Italian family. He was born in Sicily, and he lives in Tuscany. We do all the touristy things, and he knows exactly where to go and how to get there. Tony even arranges for us to stay in a monastery at the top of a mountain. It has been closed to the public for years.” While other world travelers might choose to come home with a small souvenir that might fit inside a suitcase, Stephani finds the largest pieces imaginable. All her prizes must be carefully crated and shipped home because they definitely would not fit into a suitcase. The entry hall of the Chance home displays an antique life-size bronze bust of Saint

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Nicholas. This is not the popular Santa Claus image. It is the depiction of the historic 4thcentury saint and Greek Bishop of Myra, shown wearing his bishop’s miter. His pedestal is placed between two elaborate wooden chairs. Saint Nicholas is also represented by one of two gilded icons flanking an 18th-century reliquary. A wooden panel of dancing angels holds an honored place above the door. The entry hall also displays Stephani’s most recent purchase for her fabric collection – an antique priest’s robe, which she purchased at the Medieval Market in Arezzo, Italy. Another favorite piece from Arezzo is a very old, very finely engraved, tiny, silver crown which once adorned a statue of the Madonna. 14th-century bronze doors open to a closet under the stairs. Light shines through stained glass windows. Serving trays are Venetian. Reflecting mirrors are framed with heavy carved oak or gilded frames. Beds come from Europe. Life-size bronzes smile from every corner. The lion flag of Saint Mark, patron and defender of Venice, hangs above a door. An ancient silver bas-relief of the Last Supper shares wall space with an ornately framed painting of a scene in Venice. A collection of papier-mâché Sicilian carnival masks adorns an entire wall. A Meissen bowl shares a tabletop with a large bronze crucifix and a marble statue. A mirror is framed by the sweet, smiling faces of ceramic angels. Three large Dresden centerpieces stand on the dining room table. A 3-piece gilded North Italian triptych of the Madonna and Child surrounded by saints sits above a heavily carved fireplace mantle. A high shelf holds an impressive collection of porcelain Moorish Heads that are specialties of Sicily. Each one is different, and each one is unique. Antique and contemporary heads sit together, side by side. “We watched as the artists made two of the contemporary heads,” Stephani said. “I told them I wanted to have a crucifix on mine, and there it is!” Panels in the sides of the fireplace open to display a variety of small sculptures. A television holds center stage in the fireplace opening, turning the fireplace into one amazing entertainment center.

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Two bronze camels stand guard on a long table. Inside one bronze camel is a treasure, which Stephanie found while strolling through a village market in Italy one morning. “It’s a very old lantern that the priest carried during special celebrations and saint’s parades on the Saints’ Days,” she explained. “Although Saint’s Day parades were usually lit by torches in earlier times, this one is unusual because it has spaces to hold four candles.” A full-scale bronze figure wears a ceremonial silver Sicilian wedding hat. Holding his sword aloft, the Archangel Michael stands to protect a corner. A collection of carved Mediterranean abalone shells are engraved with cameo images. Walls are rich with every size of gilded Tuscan and Sicilian diptychs and triptychs. Another large reliquary holds silver votives. These small sculptural images are offered when prayers are answered. The garden room not only displays an antique balcony, but also has an elaborate crystal chandelier high above a table that is centered by a bronze sculpture of Pan playing his dual pipes. Bright bouquets of ceramic flowers and clusters of ceramic grapes surround the porcelain figure of Bacchus, the Greek god of wine. A handwoven tapestry forms a background for a collection of Sevres porcelain plates. The beauty of a pair of carved and painted antique life-size Sicilian Moorish statues is not dimmed by their great age. Good humor and a sense of fun can be seen in a mythical 19-century bronze sculpture of a winged angel. His intricate feathered wings spread wide. He is about to take flight to rescue the fallen warrior he carries in his arms. The warrior’s classically formed hand reaches out, extending away from the central core. Dangling from his perfectly formed bronze forefinger is a working, wooden, contemporary Pinocchio marionette! This sculpture is particularly important because it is difficult to create large bronze sculptures where such parts as limbs and wings reach out away from the center of the figure. Pinocchio is a whimsical addition, and this is the Italian Pinocchio – quite different from the Disney version. Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio is as much a part of popular Italian culture as Mickey Mouse is to ours. A collection of articulated Sicilian marionettes hang against the background of a crimson drapery. The oldest marionette in the collection is a wooden soldier. His face and figure may be faded, but it is obvious that his strength endures. “When we take our trips to Italy, we take our travelers to the marionette shows,” Stephani remarked. “The marionettes come in all sizes from the smallest to the largest. When the marionette artists make them, they know that while they are in a marionette show, they are going to come alive.” A large, highly garlanded Dresden porcelain centerpiece bowl is held aloft by four chubby, porcelain angels. Each one has its own little personality, from the fat cheeked, sweetly smiling angel to the rather studious and serious angel. A dramatic life-size Carrara marble bust of a medieval warrior is placed on a table. The face and throat are white marble while the helmet and armor are a deeper color marble, so that they create the effect that the marble figure is wearing bronze armor. Gilded Tuscan triptychs share wall space with paintings, bas-reliefs and bronze and marble crucifixes. Another room contains a small gilded reproduction of the statue of Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo. In 1625, the city of Palermo suffered through a plague. Santa Rosalia appeared in a vision to a hunter near a cave just outside of the city. Her relics were paraded through the streets, and three days later, the plague miraculously ended. Her intercession saved the city, and she was declared the patron saint of Palermo. Stephani says the large painting of the Gulf of Naples is her favorite among the many paintings in her home because it brings happy memories of visits to this special place. “This is my favorite because it is where we stay in Sorrento, in southern Italy,” she said. “It has special meaning because we walk down that very road beside that very hill to get to our friend’s restaurant. It is located in the building seen in the distance. When we walk down that road, we look out across the blue green waters of the Bay of Naples.” Collecting art and antiques is a rare and personal thing. Some people are specialists who collect one sort of item, such as paintings or sculpture or porcelains. Other people collect all kinds of different items that come from all kinds of different places. The works of art that collectors choose to have in their homes may be modern or antique, or simply collectible. The important thing all collectors share is that they have a need to be surrounded by beauty. The ceilings in the Chance home are painted to reflect the clear blue skies of Tuscany, complete with the puffy white clouds that always seem to float serenely by.

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“Your ruby lips girl they tempt, and your beauty is a work of art, I could get lost inside your arms, if I had a cheatin’ heart....” I can remember hearing the words of the song, “If I Had a Cheatin’ Heart,” resonate through the car as my mother, father, two brothers, and I were speeding down the Indian Nation Turnpike on our way to Beaver’s Bend State Park for a week of vacation to explore the wilderness. Ricky Lynn Gregg’s country tones and his lyrics were relatable, even at the age of nine.

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Ricky Lynn Gregg grew up in Longview and started singing in church at a very early age. Influenced by gospel and country, by 1992, Ricky was performing solo. Later that year, he signed with the record label Liberty Records. He has recorded three studio albums: two on Liberty Records (1993s Ricky Lynn Gregg and 1994s Get a Little Closer) and one on Row Music Group (2001s Careful What You Wish For). He continues to perform at various venues. Recently, Gregg collaborated with the dynamic talents of local musicians Sammy Brasher, Terry Salyer, Bobby Claire, and Dale Phillips to help East Texas students of all ages and stages learn various forms of music. They call their venture The School of Music. The School of Music was created by masterminds Sammy Brasher and Ricky Lynn Gregg, along with the help of local storefront owner Paulette Mayfield. Sammy and Ricky were childhood buddies, and they have been performing and teaching together since high school. They want to give back to the community that has given much to them, so they strive to provide a platform that will help people learn to express themselves through music.

Not only does The School of Music teach students how to play instruments such as the guitar and the violin, but the school also teaches voice lessons. This yields an all-around, successful musical experience for those who want to learn. Students can learn in an individual setting, in a group atmosphere, or attend clinics – all under the supervision of some of the best musicians in our area. A state-of-the-art recording studio is also available for students who want to push their musical talent to that next level. All ages are encouraged to attend, as well as special needs students. Giving back is important to Sammy, Ricky, and the crew at The School of Music. They will be hosting a Special Needs program in which there will be investorfurnished instruments and lessons given to children with disabilities. The School of Music was formed from the founders’ vision and their common love of music. From voice, to instruments, to musical composition, The School of Music will help students succeed to their maximum potential. ...And the circle comes in full, “Your eyes tell me you don’t mean maybe…” For more information, contact Sammy Brasher at 903-987-9639.

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taken the public’s and the artists’ breath away. Once they were freed from the restrictions of what the French Academy told them was acceptable, artists like Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Valadon, and others had to feel as though a dark cloud had been lifted from their vision. To make things even more exciting, a little known American portrait artist named John Goffe Rand came up with the brilliant idea of premixing oil paints and putting them into small metal tubes complete with screw caps. That might seem like a tiny change in our ever-changing technological world, but back then it was major. If you could get yourself some of those metal tubes filled with paint, you could squish out the amount of color you wanted to use, then screw the cap back on so that the paint wouldn’t dry out. Before Rand invented paint in metal tubes, artists had to mix their own colors very carefully and then store them inside pig bladders, which they tied up with a string. No, you didn’t read that wrong. Up until metal tubes were invented, oil paints were carefully made by mixing pigment with special oil and binders and storing it all in pig bladders tied up with string. The artists would stick the bladders with a pin to get the paint out, but there was obviously no proper way to seal them back up again. Once you got the color out, you had to use it immediately before the paint dried out, and you would have to go mix up another bunch of pigment with oil and binder and stuff it into a fresh bladder. Obviously, there was no good way to haul a bunch of pig bladders outside into the sunlight. The metal paint tubes were a vast improvement. An artist could buy all kinds of pre-mixed colors, all set and ready to use. Better still, they could be kept. One could pack them up and take them anywhere. During that time, another remarkable change happened when the bright idea of folding a strong but slender metal ferrule around the brush hairs to make a flat brush. Before that, all brushes were rounded. The flat-ended brush made it possible for artists to make all kinds of different marks on canvas. Now they could paint rectangles of color. They could build up colors in a whole new way.

by JANSTATMAN

The calendar tells us summer is coming to an end. Those lazy, hazy, crazy days will leave us once again. No more hanging out at the pool until midnight. No more bare feet. Bathing suits will be washed and put away for yet another year. Away go the white shoes and purses because every Southern Lady knows you had better not wear white after Labor Day. School is getting ready to start. Schoolbooks will be tucked neatly into backpacks. Here in Texas, the temperature continues to soar, but we must obey the demands of the calendar‌ and yet we hope deep in our hearts that somewhere out there, there is still an endless summer. Between 1860 and 1900, the French Impressionist painters created a fabulous world of summer that would never end. They rebelled against the formal, proper, limited requirements of the French Academy. The Academy was France’s all-important decision maker for painting and painters at a time when almost all painting was done indoors. Artists were expected to stay inside their studios and wait for the proper northern light to shine on them so they could paint. If they wanted to paint a landscape, they could go outside to make drawings, sketches, and field notes, or they could just look out the window. The Impressionists turned that stiff and staid, old academic world upside down. They broke down all the barriers, and they raced out of all the doors. Their paintings were suddenly filled with light and air and sunshine. The Academy and its academics were not amused. They were accustomed to making all the rules and making all the decisions about what was art and what was not art. Who were these young upstarts who were changing all the rules?

Even Renoir’s own mother told him this new art of his would lead him to ruin. Although she had originally encouraged him to paint, and she understood everything he was doing, she could not help but have her doubts. Renoir’s son Claude remembered hearing his grandmother say, “It will take fifty years for people to understand you, and by that time, you’ll be dead. Much good that will do you!� Fortunately, Renoir decided not to pay attention. Even more fortunate, Grandma Renoir was wrong. What could have possessed all those excited young artists to pick up and rush out of their studios? Why did they go out and change the world? There were a number of reasons, actually. To be fair, the Victorian world was already beginning to change. People were starting to open the brown, velvet curtains in their stuffy parlors to let the light of the sun inside. A whole universe of new and exciting ideas were drifting in along with the sunshine. The young artists had the chance to study Japanese woodblock prints, and it changed the world of art in France. But how could that happen? Think about it. Can you imagine a time when there were no color TVs? Can you imagine a time when there were no giant billboards lining the highways, no magazine illustrations, no brightly colored newspaper ads, no Internet? At that time, the amount of visual inspiration was pretty much limited to simple black and white illustrations, a few posters on the city walls and the paintings that could be seen in churches and museums. Then along came these brilliantly colored, dynamic and dramatic Japanese prints. They were bold and exciting. Best of all, they were inexpensive. They must have

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With the combination of new colors, new brushes and new ideas, it became possible to see the world differently. Then there were the trains. It was possible to pack up all those nice tubes of paint and flat brushes and a few good, stretched canvases and hop aboard a train to take you to the happy, warm southern parts of France. If you were going to paint outside anyhow, why not paint where it was pleasant and warm and the flowers were blooming? Isn’t it a whole lot more comfortable to sit outside and paint a field of poppies than to sit outside and paint a field of snow? Artists began to respond differently to images of light and to varieties of sun and shadow – the way light reflects on water or the way different hours of the day change the light that shines on a haystack. They were fascinated by the way shafts of light cut

through the mist, the way sunflowers follow the light of the sun, or the way the skin of a small child or that of a beautiful woman glows in the sunlight. Light became the driving force. It was color. It was movement. It was the passage of time. It was the element of life. Their outdoor paintings of water lilies, of poppies, of people, of horses, of sunflowers, of fields of hay and fields of flowers still make us smile because the Impressionists allow us to share the sunshine of their endless summer.

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HOLLYWOOD RETURNS TO TEXARKANA

THE RETURN OF

SUNDOWN

- In 1946, random murders shocked the town of Texarkana into months of sheer terror. -In 1976, the movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown, based on the unsolved murders, was released nationally reliving the terror of 1946. -In 2013, the sequel is filmed, continuing the terror of sundown in Texarkana.

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oday, there are only a few people still alive that can personally attest to a horror and a fear that held Texarkana citizens hostage for over four months from February through May of 1946. Five people were murdered, and three others barely escaped with their lives during that time. A “phantom killer” had set his sights on Texarkana, the city that straddles the state line of Texas and Arkansas. The killer first targeted young couples parking in the moonlight on a country lover’s lane, but soon the citizens of Texarkana and surrounding areas were not even safe in their homes. The 1940s post war city was thriving in the daytime as a railroad hub, with a bustling train station surrounded by upscale hotels and downtown streets lined with the finest of shops. But by night, the only life stirring on those same streets would be a stray dog or cat and perhaps a police car on the watch, driven by a nervous law enforcement officer. There was little movement after dark. A drive down most neighborhood streets was like driving through an uninhabited ghost town. The houses that weren’t already secured with boarded windows and barred doors were propped with shotguns loaded and ready to fire at a second’s notice. They sat dark on quiet streets to prevent anyone from being able to see into them. Many people checked into hotels, feeling there was safety in numbers. No one was safe from the killer, who was described by surviving victims as wearing a mask or cloth sack of sorts over his head to conceal his identity.

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As America celebrated the end of World War II and the return of their loved ones from Europe, the citizens of Texarkana were awakened each morning with dread and uneasiness as they picked up the Texarkana Gazette to see if their neighbors had survived the night. This daily fear went on for months, until one day, the murders just stopped. Theories, rumors, accusations, and false confessions still linger. With over 400 suspects arrested and released for the crimes, the phantom killer still remains unnamed today, 70 years later. In the early 1970s, the story of the phantom killer caught the attention of award-winning western actor Ben Johnson. Ben grew up in the neighboring state of Oklahoma before moving to California to help Howard Hughes with his horses, and he later became a well-known actor. Ben had obviously heard the news as death after death was reported from Texarkana in 1946 and knew of the fear that held the town hostage. So, a script was written, and the movie was cast with mostly unknown actors with the exception of Ben Johnson, cast in the lead role as Texas Ranger Captain J.D. Morales and based on the real life Ranger “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas. Also cast as one of the surviving characters of the killer was Dawn Wells, the actress who was trying to escape being typecast as Mary Ann, the role she played on Gilligan’s Island. The movie was filmed entirely in and around Texarkana, using many Texarkana residents as extras. Some scenes were shot in the older part of downtown near the now closed train station, which in its prime was one of the busiest blocks in Texarkana. The movie was released nationally December 24, 1976, thirty years after the actual murders. It was titled The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The horror movie was a success nationwide, making teenagers everywhere think twice about parking on a country road at night. The movie was presented as a narrated semidocumenta-

ry claiming that “only the names have been changed.” Truth be told, the script of the movie very loosely followed the actual events that took place, with much embellishment around the actual murder scenes. The film itself was a low budget project that did well at the box office despite multiple cinematography errors and periods of very weak story lines. The movie was met by lukewarm and negative reviews with remarks such as: “No motivation or reason was ever revealed or insinuated as to why this masked man was killing people,” and “We know nothing about the killer; he escapes in the movie, and we still know nothing as we leave the theater.” From a historical film viewpoint, The Town That Dreaded Sundown influenced a whole new type of horror genre, the “slasher film.” To quote Wikipedia, a slasher film is “typically involving a mysterious psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims usually in a graphically violent manner.” The slasher film had just been introduced two years earlier in 1974 when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sent moviegoers screaming from the theaters. The chainsaw movie focused on the character Leatherface, but involved a whole family. The Town That Dreaded Sundown’s villain was a sole character that wore a muslin bag over his head to conceal his identity, with eye holes jaggedly cut out so that only his eyes could be seen. With no expressions or facial features, Sackhead, as the character has been nicknamed by horror movie fans, seemed cold and emotionless on screen. The fear that viewers felt from the physical appearance of this emotionless, “face behind the mask” effect was adopted in 1978 with the psychotic villain Michael Myers in the box office smash hit, Halloween, starting a movie franchise still alive today. In 1981, the precedents laid down by Sackhead were borrowed for the making of another horror movie franchise, Friday the 13th. In Friday the 13th II, Jason Voorhees makes his screen debut wearing a pillowcase type bag with one eyehole over his head, very similar to Sackhead, as he terrorized young, onscreen partiers that just couldn’t stay out of the woods. The Friday the 13th franchise today is credited with 12 slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, and millions of dollars of tie-in merchandise. With 35 years of masked psychotic killers making millions at the box office and on DVD sales, why not revive the original Sackhead? Writer and creator of the TV show Glee, Ryan Murphy, watched The Town That Dread-

ed Sundown in a theater as a child. Reportedly in 2011, he began talking with producer Jason Blum who was the mastermind behind such works as Paranormal Activity and Insidious. Ryan Murphy stated in a recent interview that Jason Blum was pushing to shoot more horror movies due to the low budgets required for filming and the incredible profits of a successful project. Murphy reportedly went to him with a copy of The Town That Dreaded Sundown and said, “I want to do this.” So, they started searching for script ideas from writers until they found one that was suitable. The original The Town That Dreaded Sundown movie was made before everyone had seen Halloween, and the audience was naïve. This new version of Sundown could not be just a typical slasher film, it had to be more. To add credit to their movie, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was hired to direct the film before he started on his third season of directing the popular series American Horror Story. With a cast of respected actors such as Addison Timlin of Zero Hour, veteran actor Gary Cole, Joshua Leonard known for The Blair Witch Project, and several others, outlooks are optimistic for the new film. Everyone involved with the new movie is being extremely secretive about the storyline and details of the script. The only confirmed fact is that it will not be a remake. Production on the movie began in May, and with the exception of three days, has been shot primarily around Shreveport, not Texarkana. For three days, they shot around Texarkana, reportedly to pay homage to the original film, which included some scenes on the streets of the old downtown area in front of the train station – closed and boarded shut for years. Also like the original movie, it is said the production used citizens from the Texarkana area as extras. From bits and pieces of interviews and press releases gathered from the internet, it appears as though the storyline in the new movie will begin in 1976, the year the original movie was released, and Sackhead returns. The movie will be released in 2014, and once again, the world will be aware of the nightmares that once plagued the town of Texarkana. If well-received by horror movie fans, Sackhead may finally find his place in a new horror franchise and join the likes of Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, and many of the famous slasher movie psychopaths, most of whom are based upon the original hooded phantom killer found in the original The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

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o many people of East Texas and Northwest Louisiana, Big Pines Lodge in Uncertain is not just a restaurant, it’s a decades old landmark – a place where you can have a great dinner and treat yourself to a special evening. It’s not about just going out to eat; it’s an event that can be planned and anticipated for days. Many East Texans made their first trip to Big Pines at an early age, usually taken there by parents for a family dinner of fried fish. They dined by the water, with the mystique of the thick cypress trees that are abundant on the Big Cypress River and Caddo Lake, the only natural lake in the state. Those same kids return today as adults, bringing their children to experience the restaurant’s legendary fish, steaks, and burgers to be followed by an ice cream cone and a romp outside while keeping a watchful eye to the water in hopes of spotting a “gator.” Almost anyone who’s made the trip to Big Pines will quickly testify to “the best catfish in the South,” or “hushpuppies to die for.” The restaurant, located by the Big Cypress River, with alligator embossed sidewalks, neon fish on the ceiling, an outdoor dining area and an upstairs deck looking out on the water, has come a long way since its meager beginnings. Big Pines Lodge was not always a restaurant. Instead, it began as a fish camp called Hartzo’s Camp. Although we could not determine the exact date the camp opened, we know it was in the 1930s. It was basically a bait shop and boat launch with boat rentals, a small open café, and 15 small cabins that could be rented. Sometime in the 1950s, the fish camp was sold to the Sullivan family who reportedly enlarged an existing building to open a restaurant. They renamed the camp Big Pines Lodge. After a short period of ownership, the Sullivans sold Big Pines Lodge to the Wommacks, who soon sold again to the Wadlingtons. In 1958, the water level of Big Cypress River rose drastically, flooding the entire Big Cypress Bayou. All that could be seen above water level was the Big Pines Lodge sign above the front door of the building. When the water level retreated back into the cypress lined banks, the Wadlingtons renovated the lodge, cabins and restaurant. Five brick and three wood framed cabins were rebuilt on the property.

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Also in the late 1950s, the dock at the Big Pines Lodge became home to a steam powered paddle wheel boat that was named the Caddo Queen. It is said many people enjoyed tours of the lake, river, and the “government ditch” (a trenched waterway making travel to Jefferson possible), but the fondest memories of the Caddo Queen came after the restaurant closed at 10 p.m., and locals boarded the boat to cruise the river while enjoying cocktails and dancing to music playing from the onboard jukebox until all hours of the night. After providing several years of pleasure for tourists and locals alike, the Caddo Queen sunk in the bayou. It was later recovered by an oilfield winch truck. In 1973, George and Betty Williamson bought the restaurant. It became one of the only restaurants in the nation where one could buy a fishing lure, eat dinner, have a beer and purchase a new firearm. It is said that early in their ownership, George and Betty Williamson were robbed at gunpoint at the lodge. George, a former detective with the Austin police force, acquired a license to buy and sell guns. Between his many guns and ammo on display and numerous friends frequenting the establishment who were law enforcement officers, there was typically no more trouble at Big Pines Lodge. George and Betty eventually closed the cabin rentals but operated the restaurant until George died in January of 2001. Betty continued to serve packed houses of patrons with the help of her goddaughter Tracy and husband Donovan Moffitt until Betty died in March 2007. Tracy and Donovan continued operations until 2009 when the restaurant was purchased by the current owners, Kevin Allen and Shell Sanford. Two weeks after Allen and Sanford finalized the sale of Big Pines Lodge, a fire broke out and burned the building to ashes. The owners immediately started working on plans to rebuild. After battling legalities, construction of the new restaurant began in the spring of 2011. Short months later, the doors to Big Pines Lodge reopened to the public to show off the modernized building that still cast shadows of prior years, although most photos and original decorations were destroyed in the fire. The new building retained almost the exact shape of the restaurant, with the exception of an outside dining area that seats about 90 people, which was added along with an upstairs deck, a banquet facility accommodating groups up to 45, and a full-size room that is still to be developed and opened. The beautiful stained concrete flooring was embellished with impressions of alligators rising from the river waters. One thing that has never changed are the original recipes. Big Pines still uses the exact same recipes for coleslaw and hushpuppies, which some say are just as good as their fish. The traditional catfish filets, whole catfish, and shrimp are still menu headliners. There

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The Graceful Ghost Comes to Big Pines Lodge

are a few changes to the menu that seem to be well-received: hand cut steaks from a ribeye loin are now offered along with hamburgers – voted best in the area – a full salad bar, and a Saturday and Sunday morning all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. Last March, Allen and Sanford, looking to make their restaurant even more successful, added general manager Harvey Scheuer to their staff. Harvey has an impressive background in food service executive management and has worked with major conventions and organizations such as NASCAR. He seems happy with his new job saying, “It has a great history. There is a deep tradition for a lot of people that grew up with Big Pines.” He explained that a restaurant usually depends on the citizens of just the surrounding community to survive, but being located in Uncertain, which has a population of less than 200, Big Pines reaches out to patrons from all over East Texas, Dallas, and Shreveport. On the average, Harvey says 2500 to 3000 people dine there per week in season, with most of those attending on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On an average week, Big Pines Lodge serves 1500 pounds of potatoes, 1000 pounds of fish, and 600 pounds of coleslaw. As general manager, Scheuer seems excited about the future of Big Pines Lodge. “We have joined the Marshall and Jefferson Chambers and plan to be more involved in the community. The boat dock has been rebuilt so people can come up, tie off their boat, and come eat.” The Graceful Ghost is now docking and leaving for tours from Big Pines Lodge, bringing even more tourists to the restaurant. (See side story.) Big Pines Lodge is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Their operating hours are Wednesday and Thursday 4 p.m. - 9 p.m., Friday 4 p.m. - 10 p.m., Saturday 6:30 a.m. - 10 p.m., and Sunday 6:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. Big Pines Lodge is just a couple of miles east of Caddo State Park. Follow FM 2198 east past the state park, then left on Pine Island Road. For more information or GPS coordinates, see the website at www.bigpineslodge.com.

When you first see the Graceful Ghost, it brings to mind images of a time gone by when riverboats were the main source of transportation between the ports of New Orleans and Jefferson. With its steam driven engine and bright red paddle wheel transporting sightseers on the gray doubledecker boat up and down The Big Cypress Bayou, The Grey Ghost has called Caddo home for almost 20 years. The steamboat is now departing for tours from the newly built docks of Big Pines Lodge. Captain Ron Gibbs, former merchant marine, purchased The Graceful Ghost in March of 2009. Captain Ron moved operations from Taylor Island to Shady Glade Marina. Although water levels have been fine this year, the lower levels of 2011 and 2012 made some of the more scenic areas of Captain Ron’s tour difficult or impossible to reach. With the new docks at Big Pines Lodge and its location on the river, Captain Ron was happy to announce this move. In the future, there will possibly even be dining and steamboat specials. On the Graceful Ghost website Captain Ron says, “This move to Big Pines Lodge will allow us to operate regardless of low water levels.” The Graceful Ghost Tours will be departing from Big Pines Lodge Tuesday through Friday at 12 noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. On Saturdays, Captain Ron offers an additional tour at 10 a.m. Group and senior discounts are offered; active military tickets are free. Adults $20. Children up to the age of 15 pay $1 per year of age. gracefulghost.com

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Well, it’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it, and it might as well be me. I admit that I don’t relish driving over an hour to visit a restaurant, and when a place is suggested, I take it with a grain of skeptical salt until I’ve experienced it firsthand. However, after having lunch at Stanley’s in Tyler, here is my first recommendation: GET IN YOUR CAR RIGHT NOW AND GO THERE! Stanley’s Famous Pit Bar-B-Q can boast that they are famous because there’s something to back it up. If nearly 60 years of mom and pop ownership doesn’t suggest success, then sinking your teeth into their juicy ribs will utterly convince you that heaven lies just beyond those hot Stanley’s smokers. Established in 1958 in Tyler, J.D. Stanley opened his first pit barbecue joint. In 2000, Stanley’s new owners Nick and Jen Pencis took over, and today they continue the family atmosphere that has made it not only a local favorite, but a true East Texas travel destination point. Calling ahead for information, I was told there would be a line out the door by 11 a.m., so we loaded up at 9 a.m., arrived at 10:15 a.m. and waited on their rustic patio deck. By 10:40, cars were already stopping and hungry customers were beginning to check the door. I kept threatening to go on inside, but my brother, who was with me, told me to calm down. We were both drooling in anticipation. I had already scoped out the menu online, and we basically knew what we wanted. However, we really didn’t know what to expect. I broke down at two minutes until and walked inside with our order. Stanley’s crew was organized and efficient, with a POS (point of sale) system helping to speed up the delivery of orders. When you go, be prepared that you will order and then sit or stand waiting until your name is called. But it’s not long, and the phone call information I’d received earlier proved true, because by 11:30 a.m., there really was a line out the door and around the front of the establishment. Those in the know go and don’t mind the wait. It is worth it. Stanley’s was voted into Texas Monthly magazine’s prestigious honor society – “The Top 50 BBQ Joints” – again this year. That’s out of 658 barbecue restaurants where a team of 16 eaters log over 33 thousand miles eating their way across Texas. So yes, Stanley’s can honestly say, “We’re famous.” We decided it was important to try several of the meats offered, so we began with the full slab rib plate. When my name was called, I nearly laughed when I saw the order. No platter – just a large piece of paper lining the tray and a double layer of beautiful, juicy ribs stretched like a big, ol’ smile across the length of the tray. I thought my brother was going to cry

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from happiness just seeing that vision, but then, I think we both shed a tear when we picked up the first rib and it held securely to the bone as we turned it for a good look at the rich, dark sear and moist interior. Then the moment of truth – our teeth sunk in and that smoked pig just let go and surrendered. I’m tellin’ you, it was perfect. Not a single fiber held back; it melted. One of the true tests of good barbecue is if it can stand alone

without the aid of sauce – is the flavor there in the meat? We had preplanned to forego the sauce for awhile. Every succulent bite spoke its flavorfilled, smoky story as a solo act. After about three to four ribs, we ventured to the sauce bottle and tried a little, then a little more, until we both laughed as the sauce drenched the last rib we could stand to eat. After five ribs, I was done (eight for my brother) and knew leftovers were

going home for dinner and the next day. In addition, I did a take-out of a 4-meat sampler consisting of turkey, sausage, sliced brisket and pulled pork. That evening, I shared with a group of five artists that made it disappear. Stanley’s serves sandwiches piled high with meat, all prepared in full view of customers by a staff wearing the in-house T-shirt that reminds us to “Be Kind… Have Fun.” The menu includes “famous” plates, “famous” sandwiches, and even “famous” tacos. If you still have room after satiating yourself with barbecue, there’s peach cobbler and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream for dessert. Meat by the pound will run you $12.99 for any meat they prepare. Stanley’s atmosphere is super casual with a small indoor dining room and a large, covered outdoor deck. Free WiFi is available. Several nights a week, they host live music, drawing a diverse crowd of hungry folks. I hear there’s always a large crowd, so plan for patience and great music. The restaurant now serves breakfast with an interesting menu that includes burritos and bowls layered with eggs, red potatoes, meat, and cheese. Stanley’s also caters with extensive flexibility for small and large groups, including delivery and set-up if needed, with the same quality food and service the restaurant is famous for. It’s 10:55 a.m., the morning after my visit to Stanley’s Famous Pit Bar-BQ, and I’m sitting here thinking about that growing line outside their swinging gate entrance. Sure wish I was there. I’ve got another hankerin’ for a big bite of rib! Stanley’s is located at 525 S. Beckham Ave. in Tyler. Hours: Breakfast: Monday - Friday 7-10 a.m. Lunch and Dinner: Monday - Saturday 11 a.m. 9 p.m. Bar Hours: Monday - Friday 3 p.m. - ? p.m. Sat. 11 a.m. - ? p.m. Closed Sunday. Phone: 903-593-0311. Visit their website for a look at the full menu at stanleysfamous.com. The opinions expressed here were based on the writer’s personal experience. Please be sure to visit and form your own opinion.

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Innovation Academy An Innovative Way of Learning

“I’ve always hated school, but now I love it,” Innovation Academy student, Brooks Chandler. The University of Texas at Tyler’s Innovation Academy is dedicated to implementing the newest and most promising practices in education for grades 3-7. They seek to be a model for the educational community. The academy believes that learning should be both engaging and social. To this end, students work in groups in order to tackle challenging curriculum and are taught all content through projects and handson activities. 21st century skills that include problem solving, communication, research and collaboration are incorporated into the projects. Teachers work together to design projects lasting usually three to four weeks. These projects are designed with state standards in mind, ensuring that students are learning the material that they need to know. The projects often incorporate multiple subjects simultaneously. Once a project is designed, the teachers launch the project for the students and present them with an entry document. This document guides the students on their journey. The students begin by completing a Know/Need-toKnow process where they identify the critical points of the project and begin designing their own path. Each project culminates with a student created product often including a presentation. Learning should be an ongoing process and is extended beyond the classroom by providing at home assignments. Students in the Innovation Academy spend roughly half as much time with teachers. The remainder of the time is spent away from school working independently on virtual assignments. The goal of these assignments is to prepare students for what they will be learning in class before they arrive. These assignments are also adaptive, allowing students to move at their own pace and therefore keeping the student’s interest. Education should be individualized for all students. The Academy strives to develop projects that allow students to operate at multiple grade levels. Furthermore, they encourage students to work ahead on their own or address weaknesses that they have identified with the help of their mentor, teachers and parents. In line with their philosophy of “implementing the newest and most promising practices in education,” the UT Tyler Innovation Academy provides the latest in technology to students, teachers, and staff in order to ensure the best possible opportunities for success. At the student level, each student is issued a portable device capable of connecting to wireless networks at any of their campus locations,

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as well as the student’s home. These devices allow ‘apps’ to be loaded by the student, teacher, or parent in order to facilitate the learning process. For the 2012/2013 school year, they chose to issue Apple iPads. These tablets are at the forefront of consumer technology and provide excellent access to a vast array of apps and websites. The students use these devices both in and out of the classroom to collaborate with other students, teachers, and administration. The school’s professional IT staff continues to evaluate new technologies regularly to ensure their schools are at the cutting edge. The academy wishes to lead the way in technology in education and their students will reap the benefits of this desire. The teachers are provided the same tablets as the students. Additionally, laptops are provided so that they can create the necessary materials for the students. It is important that the teachers have the same technology as the students so that they can experience exactly what the students experience. For parents, a multi-channel communications plan has been implemented. Parents are updated using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, along with newsletters emailed weekly. They post pictures and videos of the children and teachers learning and teaching, and the websites are updated regularly. Implementation of technology in the Innovation Academy allows for all involved to receive timely information in the method they find most suitable. Technology is not only in the hands of the innovators - it is all around the school. Each campus has an enterprise, wireless network so that teacher and students can collaborate. Each classroom has large screen TVs with Apple TVs attached so that anyone in the school can present materials at any time. A modern student information system (SIS) is used, which allows teachers, staff, and parents to access a student’s progress at any time. This information is available 24/7 to parents from anywhere they have an Internet connection. A multitude of apps for the tablets are also provided, both paid and free. Teachers regularly add to their ever-expanding list of websites and applications to ensure that each student’s needs are met and multiple avenues to learning a concept are available. At the UT Tyler Innovation Academy, innovation occurs at all levels, in project-based learning, in the flipped model classroom, and in technology. For more information on The Innovation Academy, please visit www.uttia.org. Information from this story was all taken from www. uttia.org from the philosophy and technology tabs.

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School will be back in session this month, and among the excitement of a new school year, students are returning to days filled with algebra equations, English literature, chemistry and the dreaded task of preparing for standardized tests. But scattered among the usual classes that make up the core curriculum for most high school students are the “fun” classes – art, music, band, choir and theater. As we are always seeking to educate our readers about the arts, we wanted to find out what our area fine arts teachers had to say about their experiences teaching high school students. We interviewed a group of teachers from surrounding schools and found that all of them agree that fine arts as part of a student’s curriculum is a major benefit – whether in high school, college or later in life. The fine arts are an important part of the equation for a wellrounded education, and many students who take part in a fine arts class go on to graduate with high honors. They also tend to be more successful in life with more self-esteem because they have had the chance to learn how to express themselves in a creative environment. Students who find an outlet to create unique artwork, learn to play an instrument or two, or overcome the fear of standing up in front of people acting out a character also discover that, in many cases, their grades improve overall. Pam McWilliams, who teaches theater arts at Longview High School, has seen most of her students graduate successfully and credits the students’ involvement in the fine arts as a major reason for this achievement. “If you look at the arts in any school, you’ll find that the kids who are in the arts are the leaders in the school who make the best grades and who, for the most part, are college bound. Kids who are involved in the arts are generally the ones who are the top students in any school,” she says.

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Countless studies have shown that students do better in school when they are involved in the arts, and according to one article titled “What is the Importance of Fine Arts in a Public High School Education,” the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (www.nasaa-arts. org) shows that “SAT scores improve dramatically the longer students are enrolled in arts education.” Vicki Hughes, choral director at John Tyler High School states, “The fine arts are being taken out of our schools even in Texas. Our principals and our school districts need to be informed of how the fine arts can be extremely valuable to them and their test scores, because not everybody is going to be a scientist and not everybody is going to be a mathematician. “The fine arts combine science, math and history to our educational programs. Texas needs to change their ideas of standardized testing. It has become the standard of which teachers have to instruct their students, and so, students are unable to freely learn other things within the classroom except what they need to know to pass the standardized tests.” In a 2005 report titled “Critical Evidence: How the ARTS Benefit Student Achievement,” the NASAA also states the following: ·Schools integrating the arts into the curriculum as part of a comprehensive education reform strategy are documenting positive changes in the school environment and improved student performance. ·In the federal No Child Left Behind Act, also known as NCLB, the arts share equal billing with reading, math, science and other disciplines as “core academic subject,” which can contribute to improved student learning outcomes. ·Forty-nine states have established content and/or performance standards that outline what students should know and be able to do in one or more art forms; 43 states require schools or districts to provide arts instruction.

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-Rita Clawson, Ore City ·The American public, by an overwhelming margin, believes the arts are vital to a wellrounded education; more than half rate the importance of arts education a “ten” on a scale of one to ten. In another report dated March 2012 by the National Endowment of the Arts (www.nea. gov), children, teenagers, and young adults who had high or low levels of fine arts experience were tracked and reported in four separate longitudinal studies. Titled “The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth,” this study found the following academic achievements: ·Teenagers and young adults of low socioeconomic status (SES) who have a history of indepth arts involvement show better academic outcomes than do low-SES youth who have less arts involvement. They earn better grades and demonstrate higher rates of college enrollment and attainment. ·Students who had arts-rich experiences in high school were more likely than students without those experiences to complete a calculus course. ·Students who took arts courses in high school achieved a slightly higher grade-point average (GPA) in math than did other students. ·In two separate databases, students who had arts-rich experiences in high school showed higher overall GPAs than did students who lacked those experiences. ·Better GPAs were also observed among high-SES students who had earned arts credits in high school; 3.17 on average compared with 2.97 for the high-SES students who had earned few or no arts credits, and 2.84 for the full sample. The facts are in and should not be ignored; the fine arts offer our youth the chance to experience an amazing power of creativity and freedom of creative expression. It makes them better students and helps them develop skills that require imagination and inventiveness. Amanda Hancock, art teacher at Tatum High School, says, “I am EXTREMELY passionate about the role that all of the fine arts plays in anyone’s life. It is very important for one to be able to blow off steam. In particular, a teen’s life is filled with angst about identity and security. He or she needs to have a sanctuary to be able to rest his or her spirit and renew oneself. Many teens find that place through sports. However, overt physical activity is not everyone’s forte. Many teens connect to a deeper part of themselves via music, theater, writing, dance (while extremely physical, it is not always involving the competition that sports do), and of course, visual arts.” Rita Clawson, art teacher at Ore City High School, agrees. “The arts are important to my students because they can truly express themselves in ways they never thought before. Students are able to use materials and techniques that many times support other classes. It’s another way to think and concentrate. It helps their mind develop new skills.” So what does this mean for students in the fine arts as they graduate and enter the workforce? According to Sandi Parks, choral director at Marshall High School, “Future employers are looking for creative thinkers; they don’t just need to look at the physics or calculus classrooms to look for their top students. They need to also look at the fine arts classes and for people who were in other things like choir, band, art or performing arts because they can work with other people. “In the early 90s, I was part of a study where they found the workforce was feeling a drought in the area of creative problem solving. Many of the mainstream business magazines and even Time Magazine were at that time putting out a big emphasis on how creative problem solving was a vanishing trend. “All of those articles in non-arts magazines were reporting that their studies had shown that the fine arts were helping them to find the people they were looking for who could work together using the creative part of their brain,” she says. Travis House, who teaches theater at Pine Tree ISD, also agrees that fine arts helps students later in life by saying, “No matter where you go or what job you go to, you’re going to find yourself standing in front of a group of people speaking at some point. In that respect, it’s a skill you need for life, and I think that theater really helps people to open up and give them the confidence to do it again and again.” Whether a student takes an art class, joins a music program or performs on stage, the fine arts offer them the chance to explore their artistic side in a creative environment with the added benefit of higher grades in high school and a successful life after graduation.

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teaches art at Tatum High School and is entering her fifteenth year of teaching. She attended Stephen F. Austin State University for her undergraduate degree and earned her masters of art education at Texas Tech University. Hancock is currently enrolled in her fifth and final semester at Goddard College, where she will soon graduate with a terminal degree as a masters of fine arts – interdisciplinary arts. Hancock has always wanted to teach, but it wasn’t until she was a teenager who, she says, “couldn’t identify herself and had to cope with many trials, that I decided to become a secondary educator. You see, it was during this time, the most formidable years of my life as an adolescent/post-adolescent when I was spiritually and emotionally touched by a few high school mentors/ teachers who guided me, listened to me, and offered me love (sometimes tough love) rather than criticism, to help me become a better version of myself. “Because they helped me feel secure in who I was, I began to sink myself into my passions (visual arts) with abandon, not fearing the risk of failure. Failure was not an option when it came to my passions. It still isn’t.” Hancock incorporates her love of art in her daily life through the study of art theory, practicing art and teaching art. I have learned to see and experience art in every facet of my life. ‘Art,’ to me, is no longer only painting; it is everything I do. I see nature as art, love as art, death as art, God as art, the art of cooking, gardening, and even the art of cleaning. For me, ‘art’ simply comes down to this: it is an awareness and a communication,” she says. “If I needed to tell you something but could not talk, then I would have to find some other mode of communication. I could use charades to make my point, sing it, draw or write it, even use lyrical movement to get my point across. Everything I have just listed is one of the fine arts! The fine arts are communicative! And once we listen, actually listen to what others are saying and be aware of a message, even if it is absurd, then we as a society will finally understand the true definition and importance of art,” she explains. As an art teacher, Hancock has seen two of her students at two different times win “Best of Show” at the Longview Museum of Fine Art Student Invitationals. Many of her students attend the Visual Arts and Scholastic Event on the state level and one student has won the Gold Seal at state. “NONE of these accomplishments compare to the one most unlikely ‘trouble-making’ student showing up in the doorway of my classroom asking for a sketchbook because she has so much to say and can’t do it in words. Nothing compares to the small victories of helping the most testosterone driven young man see, understand, and practice the importance of creativity, especially on his own time and of his own initiative. “And all other victories shadow in comparison to that of the child who, as a sophomore in high school, has tragically lost her mother and is able to communicate her emotions in a journal of drawing. Seeing that students have something to say and teaching them one way of letting it out is the greatest blessing of my job. It is what turns what I do from paycheck to passion.”

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has been the theater director and a teacher at Pine Tree High School for the past two and a half years. He attended Hallsville High School, then went on to Kilgore College and Baylor University. Before teaching theater, he worked for a drilling company. While working a full-time job, he was offered the opportunity to star in a children’s show at ArtsView Children’s Theater in Longview, and from that experience he was asked to guest direct. “I guest directed two shows, and about the time it was ending, I thought it was a nice little gig. Education theater was always the most fun for me because I was working with a teacher who was an expert in some way, and it helped develop my skill. I went back to school and got my teaching certificate, and afterwards, a job opened up at Pine Tree High School,” House explains. As a theater arts teacher, House feels that the fine arts helps spark student interest. It makes them want to get creative and exercise their creative mind, which is something they don’t normally get to do when they’re in a science class. “I’m very well aware that when it comes to public school, [fine arts] is the curriculum that really draws the students in and keeps them interested and motivated. It’s also something they get to own and do on their own time. “Fine arts really helps kids in so many ways – especially in theater,” he says. “We have the professional communication classes where kids learn how to speak and stand up in front of people, but in theater arts, they have to speak passionately about something. It’s not that they’re not supposed to in another class, but they just usually don’t because it’s so academic in its setting. Theater is a way for them to just get up and express themselves.” Although this is his first school district to teach, over the past two and a half years he has seen students winning awards such as best actress, and one student has gone on to SFA to become a theater director. In his own time, he incorporates theater into his life by staying actively involved with ArtsView Children’s Theater in Longview.

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teaches art at Ore City High School, which is where she also attended high school. She went to college at ETSU, now Texas A&M Commerce, and did her student teaching at Commerce High School. Before teaching at Ore City High School for the past 12 years, Clawson taught for seven years at Sabine Middle School. She has always had an interest in art and became interested in teaching while in high school. “I had a great mentor who was my high school art teacher, as well as people in my life that encouraged me and supported my decision to become a teacher. I am truly blessed to be in this vocation. I love what I do,” she says. As an art teacher, she encourages and supports her students in expressing their creativity in various ways, whether through competitions or community involvement. “As for art, we have taken several students to the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE). I’ve been blessed to have three students make it to the state level. I also teach leadership, and I am the advisor for our student council. We have held a district office in the Texas Association of Student Councils (TASC) for about seven years now and were State Parliamentarian in 2011. It’s been great stuff! I love watching my students succeed. They do such a great job of doing it,” she says. Her students have also painted a large mural in Ore City by the city park, which she says was a “crazy, fun project.” She displays her students’ art in her classroom and throughout the school and also makes it available to view online through her class blog clawsonsawesomeclass. wordpress.com. There’s also an online art gallery at www.artsonia.com. In her personal life, Clawson incorporates art where and when she can. ”I am an artist; I love to create. My favorite medium is acrylic paint. I sketch continuously and love to make things out of any type of medium. I have a daily blog (www.awesomeclawson.wordpress.com) where I talk about and post various videos and artwork, which involves education – learning especially, creating, reating, blessings and looking at life positively.” positively.

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is the choral director at John Tyler High School in Tyler, where she also teaches beginning guitar. She previously taught at Richardson ISD, her high school alma mater, before coming to John Tyler, where she has been teaching for the past five years. She became a teacher and earned her degree at Stephen F. Austin State University after working in the corporate world for many years and deciding it was time for a change. After making the decision to teach show choir, Hughes was given the opportunity to teach sixth grade at Moses Intermediate School in Nacogdoches, where she taught for a year. She transferred to the Fort Worth ISD, where she taught show choir, electric keyboard and guitar. Hughes has also taught at Arlington ISD after successfully battling breast cancer and Marshall ISD before working at John Tyler. Hughes feels strongly that the fine arts are an important aspect of a student’s life. “They’re squeezing the performing arts out of the way because a lot of these principals are just not informed of the benefits of what the fine arts can do for our kids. A lot of parents are moving their kids from the public school system to private schools so they can have the opportunity to have a well-rounded education. We need to give our kids every opportunity to experience the fine arts. If they want to sing, let them sing. If they want to paint, let them paint. If they’re good at graphics on the computer, give them opportunities to do that and use it as an elective,” she says. In recent years, Hughes has taken her students to New York City, where they performed at Ground Zero, the Fireman’s Memorial and Trump Tower, and to Branson, Mo., where they performed onstage at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Theater.

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is the head theater director, teacher and UIL coordinator for Longview High School. She went to Kilgore High School, then the University of North Texas before earning her master’s degree at Stephen F. Austin State University. McWilliams has taught at LHS her entire career and says, “I really think what makes me the happiest are the students who went into theater education because they saw something in what I did, and it made them want to do it too.” As a communications major in college, she taught communications when she first began teaching at LHS. “Gradually it became a choice between coaching debate or teaching theater. I chose theater and never looked back. I’ve loved every second of it, and I’m now teaching the grandchildren of people I’ve taught before. We have an excellent parent booster club; it’s not just the kids involved but the family gets involved,” she says. “I’ve had lots of kids whose parents told me that if it hadn’t been for theater, they would never have graduated from high school. It gave them a reason for passing and a reason for coming to school. I have a lot of former students who are doing professional things – like Broadway, movies or running their own theater companies – and behind the scenes things too. McWilliams has seen many of her students successfully earn awards and recognition in high school, such as second place in state for 5A in One Act Play. She’s also seen quite a few students place in state in Prose and Poetry, and she’s also taken classes to New York and Europe. As an outreach of the fine arts department, she’s involved her students in 9/11 tributes benefitting police and fire departments. In her personal life, she has directed for the Junior League and community theater, at the First Baptist Church in Longview and at her church, Forest Home Baptist Church in Kilgore. She also works for the city teaching theater classes and conducts workshops across the state of Texas. Because of her hard work and dedication to her students and theater, two scholarships have been established in her name. On her 50th birthday, a scholarship was established by her parent group in which $5000, sometimes more, is awarded every year in her name. At least $60,000 has been awarded to students since the scholarship was founded. She also belongs to the Texas Education Theatre Association, which established a scholarship in her name in 2012 for a theater student at Kilgore College.

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is the head choral director at Marshall High School where she is entering her 14th year. She went to high school at Arkadelphia High School in Arkadelphia, Ark., and went to college at Ouachita Baptist University to do her undergraduate studies. Parks also earned her master’s degree at Sam Houston State University. Before teaching at Marshall High School, Parks taught in Little Rock, Fort Worth and spent seven years teaching at Trinity Episcopal School in Marshall. “As an elementary school teacher, I really learned that the arts are the way students learn to appreciate beauty and true team work. There are so many things they get from the arts that they don’t get from the pencil and paper classes. Arts really nourish the soul, and it doesn’t mean it’s a warm, fuzzy vapor hanging out there by itself while real school is going on. It’s a part of a person’s psychological and physiological development to be well-rounded, not only academically but with the arts providing a way for our students and adults to get into the creative thought-process. “As I see students go into other fields of study, from biology to whatever, they are always being asked to come up with creative problem-solving abilities, and we get our creative thinking from the fine arts primarily. I also find that it helps students to learn to work together to achieve something that is high quality. When we are working to hone a piece of music..., everyone has to be focused on the primary goal, which is to take a piece of music to its apex and hone it into perfection,” she explains. Parks teaches a talented group of students at a school district that has a long track record of highest honors in UIL competitions. She also takes her students on trips to other states and recently visited Europe. They went on a trip to Washington, D.C., where they performed a full concert at the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Naval Academy. In 2011, her students toured England and Scotland, performing at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh Castle, the Tower of London and the home of famous playwright William Shakespeare.

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News 3rd Annual Gladewater’s Main St. Art Stroll Gladewater is getting set to kick off the biggest art stroll in East Texas featuring more than 35 leading artists in the surrounding area, including those as far away as Dallas and Good Night, Texas. The “Stroll,” presented by Gladewater’s Main Street, will include over 20 downtown businesses, most being antique shops, where you can meet the artists and shop ‘til you drop. And… that’s not all! At the end of the day, there’ll be a special, free concert downtown. The artwork will include paintings, drawings, photography, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, stained glass and custom-made furniture, plus everything is indoors (and air-conditioned) for your convenience and comfort. The artists include: Paul Anderson, Lynette Bagley, Cissy Boyd, Sandra Byers, Sherry Callender, Pam Carter, Christine Chandler, Suzan Chapman, Thomas Dean, Laura Drennan, Howard DuBois, Amanda Dunnavant, Bart Eason, Cheryl Forhan, Cindy Fuqua, Mary Jo Gardere, Monty Graham, Larry Guest, Varya Ignatchenko, Jennyfer Keohane, Andrew Kirby, Bobbye Koncak, Joyce Laverty, Hugh Lawrence, Pat McCaslin, Tony McCullough, Dolph Miller, Ellisa Mitchell, Wesley Morgan, Joel Nichols, Charles Niswonger, Betty Northcutt, Sissy Kates Schneiderman,

“Tejano - Contemporary Latin American Artists of Texas” September 14 - October 26, 2013 John Hernandez, Margarita Cabrera, Angel Fernandez, Angel Cabrales, Ben Herrera, Carlos Donjuan, Emily Donjuan, Rosemary Desplas, Andrew Ortiz, Benito Huerta, Gaspar Enrique, Anna Jaquez and Tina Fuentes Ellie Taylor, Ethan Walters, Mark Walters, Karen White, Darlene Wright. At day’s end, you can enjoy live music by the talented singer Morgan Alexis Smith. You don’t want to miss this opportunity… she’s destined to be a country mega star. Put on your walking shoes for family fun, fine art, and unique antiques at Gladewater’s Main Street Art Stroll in downtown Gladewater, August 10, noon until 5 p.m. and beyond! For more information, contact the Gladewater Chamber of Commerce at 903-845-5501; or call 903-315-6563 or 903-808-0554.

TMA Issues Call for Entries on “Cars Are Art” Competition Gentlemen, start your engines … The Tyler Museum of Art is issuing a call for entries for its first-ever Juried “Cars Are Art” Competition, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Museum. Vehicle owners may enter their cars in one of eight competition categories: Pre-1940s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and Post-2000. Cars will be judged on overall presentation and aesthetics, not originality or modifications (all doors and engine hoods will be closed). A jury of art professionals will perform the competition judging. The first-place winner in each category will receive an artistically crafted trophy. The entry chosen as the “Cars Are Art” 2013 Best of Show winner will receive the Grand Prize, which includes exhibition in the TMA lobby for two weeks following the competition. Registration deadline is Aug. 18. Entry fee is $100 per vehicle; price includes lunch and a “Blue-plate Special” party following the awards presentation from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Parking will be available for car trailers. Registration forms may be picked up at the Museum or downloaded online at www.tylermuseum.org. Public admission is $15 for adults, and free for children 12 and under. The admission fee includes free entrance to the TMA exhibition Deco Japan: Shaping Art & Culture, 1920-1945, continuing through Oct. 20. Concessions will be available for purchase throughout the day. “Blue-plate Special” tickets are $25 per person, and available at the Museum. (Reservations are required.) The TMA, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, is located at 1300 S. Mahon Ave., adjacent to the Tyler Junior College campus off East Fifth Street. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday; the Museum is closed Mondays and most major holidays. The TMA is supported by its Members and Tyler Junior College. For more information, call 903-595-1001 or visit News & Events at www.tylermuseum.org.

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he Gaston Museum in Joinerville is located at 6562 U.S. Hwy. 64 West, approximately six miles west of Henderson. It is dedicated to telling the real story about how life was lived in the East Texas Oil Field from the 1930s through the 1960s. On Oct. 3, 1930, Dad Joiner’s Daisy Bradford No. 3 Discovery Well came in a gusher at Turnertown, near Joinerville outside Henderson. Two months later, the Lou Della Crim well came in nine miles away on the Crim farm near Kilgore. It flowed at an unbelievable 22,000 barrels a day. It was followed rapidly by the J.K. Lathrop well in Pine Tree in Gregg County near Longview, producing 20,000 barrels a day. The three discovery wells defined the boundaries of the “Black Giant,” the greatest oilfield the world had ever seen. It was 45 miles long and 12 miles wide, covering a total of over 140,000 acres. Old Timers still say it rained 40 days and 40 nights that first year, and narrow country roads were transformed into flooded rivers of thick, red mud. The flooded, muddy roads and driving rains didn’t stop a flood of people from finding their way into East Texas. They came from everywhere in America. In less than a month, Kilgore grew from a small town of 700 people to become a bustling city of 10,000. The community of Cyril soon changed its name to Joinerville in honor of “Dad” Joiner, the man who brought in the Lou Della Crim well. Quiet, little East Texas towns would never be the same. The boom was on! But what was life really like in those muddy East Texas oilfield towns where “home” could be a tent or a chicken coop, a rented cot in someone’s attic, or the back of an old Ford pickup truck? Those people who were fortunate enough to have a tent were considered to be living “the good life.” Those who had a floor in their tent thought they were upscale. Those with a “boxed in” tent that had both a floor and sides thought they were living in a palace fit for a king! The Gaston Museum gives visitors the opportunity to actually walk backward into history, to go as far back as the 1930s. It

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gives visitors a solid idea about how people survived those first rough oil boom days. This is a different kind of museum. It is more than simply a building filled with artifacts. It is spread out across four buildings. They are not reproductions. They are the real thing. They include the Tent House, the White Snack Shop, the 1930s era Dixie Service Station, and the museum’s Main Exhibit Building. Together, they offer the chance to truly “step back” in time. Visitors can stand on the same plank floors that the ”boomers” stood on. They can climb the same steps that the “boomers” walked. Seeing is believing, and being inside these buildings can help to understand the actual living conditions of the average hard-working family that lived and survived in the oil patch. One of the Main Exhibit Building’s most popular displays is titled, “Radio… How We Surfed the Wave.” Here, visitors can see how it looked for a family to gather together to hear a favorite radio program or perhaps listen to the nightly news. Radio was most people’s link to the world in the 1930s. It was an important part of family life. The radio exhibit is described as “a loving tribute to a father, who operated a radio repair shop as a second job.” It features a collection of antique radios. An audio presentation has the “shop owner” telling how and why he opened the shop. His workshop table is filled with manuals, tools, and equipment of the day, ready and waiting for him to repair still another radio. Journals that carefully list purchases, sales, and charges show visitors exactly how business was conducted before the invention of computers. Other exhibits include “East Texas Oil Field,” “Boom Town Businesses,” “Churches of the Area,” “Early Families,” “Boy Scouts,” and “Gaston School.” Military Veterans are honored with “Gaston’s Wall of Honor,” including photographs of the town’s veterans and a collection of military artifacts. The Sid White family home is the only known surviving tent house in East Texas. It was once a typical oil field tent house of the “boxed in” variety with walls and a floor. A

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solid roof was built to replace the canvas roof in order to make the tent house into a permanent home. When the ceiling was installed, it followed the lines of the rafters that once supported the top of the tent. In that way, the ceiling kept the outline of the original tent. Boards were built to create walls. Glass windows were added. In time, more rooms were built and added, but the living room of the home is still the original tent with its original plank floor. Another building, White’s Snack Shop, is the same snack shop that Sid White tent house was opened in 1939. It became a typical 1940s roadside café, serving ham- been the first self service filling station in Amerburgers and chili dogs, chips, cold drinks and ica. The operator, Mr. White, had been so ill ice cream. It always had the popular music that he was unable to attend to his customers. of the day ready and waiting to be played on He did the only reasonable thing he could do in the colorful jukebox. The Snack Shop was those days, long before the invention of credit the town’s center of entertainment during cards. He placed a box on the wall. When a the oil boom. It was built with materials that car or truck drove up to the station, he would were easily available in the area. When it shout out to the customers from his bedroom was built, it was only ten feet wide by twelve window. “Help yourself, and put your money feet long. It was doubled in size in 1940, in the box,” he would cry. It worked. Honand it was enlarged and remodeled again in est people did the honorable thing. The ‘SELF 1945. When Texas Hwy. 64 was widened, SERVICE’ sign is still in its original place. Mr. the Snack Shop was moved further back White’s box is still on the wall. from the road. Although some of the booths In addition to its regular exhibits, the Gashad to be removed so that the museum could ton Museum offers an educational program for make room for special exhibits, all the snack seventh grade students. Every year “Life In The shop’s furnishings are original, and the soda East Texas Oil Field, A Living History Presenfountain is still intact. tation” is offered during the first Wednesday in The 1930s era Dixie Service Station may October. be the only remaining Dixie station still in Museum hours are: Thursday & Friday existence in Texas. Dixie was the marketing 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 division of the East Texas Refining Compa- p.m. Groups may arrange for special tours by ny. It was the first refinery in the East Tex- appointment. One of the best museum baras Oil Field. Dixie operated 35 stations in gains in East Texas, admission is only $3.00 for and around the larger towns of East Texas. adults, $2.00 for seniors, and is free for chilAll the company’s buildings were identical. dren under the age of twelve. They were pre-fabricated metal structures For additional information or to schedule that could quickly be recognized by driv- an appointment to tour the museum, contact ers who were moving down the road. While museum staff at 903-657-6348, 903-759they were operating, the station and terminal 9473, or 903-863-2108. Email the museum were open 24 hours a day. This same station office at: museumoffice@gastonmuseum.org, later operated as a Texaco, a Hancock, and a or write the Gaston Museum at P.O. Box 301, Spunky station. Joinerville, Texas 75658-0301. This particular Dixie station may also have

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heatre Longview is East Texas’ newest theater company. The curtain went up on its first season with a rousing production of the hilarious comedy, Love, Sex, and the IRS by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. When the play originally premiered at the Dam Site Dinner Theater in Tinton Falls, NJ, on June 1, 1979, the Asbury Park Press warned the diner to, “Eat carefully before curtain time or you might laugh enough to choke if you don’t.â€? Still popular with community theaters across the country, the play is as funny and as current today as it was when it first opened 34 years ago. Why not? The themes of betrayal, confusion, friendship, love and marriage never go out of style. Love is still lovely. Men wearing dresses are still funny. Sex is still with us, and the IRS will always be the one government agency that everybody loves to hate. A reviewer for the Englewood Times in Florida once said, “A season seldom goes by that this show doesn’t run somewhere nearby. And for good reason. It convulses audiences!â€? It certainly was a cause for foot stomping hilarity when it took the stage at the Community Center in Longview in mid-July. Under the able direction of Nathaniel Olson, the farce was staged as broad physical comedy with hilarious sight gags and spot-on timing. The comedy had an unstoppable collection of twists of fate and confused people running in and out of doors as the action progressed. There were men in drag, ladies in distress, mistaken identities, unexpected appearances, an overbearing mama, some wild dialogue, and some silly slapstick routines. The theater’s production crew presented the audience with an interior set recalling a downscale 2-man bachelor apartment in New York City in the 1970s. Costumes were perfect for the era, including hairstyles and make-up. To review the action, it would be wise to remember that then and now artists, actors and musicians are almost always out of work and seriously out of cash in New York City. In order to cut down on expenses, two out-of-work musicians, Jon Trachtman, played by Devin Huggins, and Leslie Arthur, played by Josh King, are good friends who have been saving money for several years by sharing an apartment. Money is so tight that Jon comes up with a clever plan, although the idea may be a little bit on the shady side. Since he does the taxes for both of the men, he figures he could save even more money if he files their tax returns as a couple. He informs the IRS that he and Leslie are married. After all, isn’t Leslie one of those unisex names that is perfectly appropriate for women, as well as for men? It all goes smoothly, or at least they think it is going smoothly, until the day of reckoning arrives. They discover they are going to be audited! What else can they do when the tax man comes? There is no choice but that Leslie must act as though he is Jon’s wife! Jon’s fiancĂŠ Kate Dennis, played by Lacy Hutchinson, helps Leslie dress up as a mid-century housewife. If that isn’t trouble enough, Jon’s mother Vivian Trachtman, played by Michelle King, makes an

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unexpected appearance. She thinks she is coming for a visit so that she can help plan Jon’s wedding to his fiancÊ Kate. However, it soon turns out that Leslie and Kate are having a secret affair behind Jon’s back. With all of that confusion, throw in a landlord who won’t permit unmarried couples to live together in his building and add an IRS agent who drinks a bit too much, and of course, you don’t want to forget Leslie’s former girlfriend who shows up demanding to know why Leslie’s feelings for her have changed so much that he won’t call her or go out with her anymore. Other actors in the 8-member cast who contributed to the confusion as much as to the hilarity included Brad Echols as Floyd Spinner, Amanda Robins as Connie, Tommy Duke as Arnold Grunion and Charles Warren as Mr. Jansen. Penne Duke served as Assistant Director, and Susan Olson kept it all together as Stage Manager. Audiences were still giggling after the curtain fell as they left the theater at the Community Center building wearing happy smiles. Linda Rumsfield is president of Theatre Longview. The group has been recognized as a corporation and has received non-profit status as a 501 (c) (3) organization. Board members include: James Harding, vice president; Jim Wisenbaker, treasurer; Barbara McClellan, secretary; Steve Boyd; Sharon Cooley; Mitzi Milstein; Rusty Milstein; Nathaniel Olson; and Diana Rushing. It is their belief that a vital community theater offers aspiring actors the chance to perform on stage, while at the same time offering all sorts of backstage opportunities for interested scenic and costume designers, directors, lighting and technical crews. The board of directors agrees that Theater Longview will enhance the quality of life in Longview and East Texas by broadening the arts community with the opportunity to participate in live theater. Their public statement declares that the arts are a form of public education giving people a means of expression, capturing their emotions, bringing joy to their lives and enhancing their community. They believe the arts are important for a healthy society and are considered to be a reflection of the society. More than that, the arts have a significant financial effect on regional income that can be as strong as finance, management and science technology in the United States. Volunteers and members enjoy receiving production updates and newsletters. Volunteer and membership opportunities welcome everyone. Memberships are available and include voting rights, as well as a listing in all of the production programs. For further information, call the theater’s office phone. Leave a name and number with the answering machine. A member of the theater’s board of directors will return the call as quickly as possible. 903-734-6059 P.O. Box 5165, Longview, Texas 75608-5165 theatrelongview@aol.com Facebook page: facebook.com/pages/ Theatre-Longview/202811186521214

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Piney Woods Live is teaming up with Pageants of East Texas to bring to our area the first annual Miss Pineywoods Pageant Aug. 17. The pageant will take place at the Longview Community Center. The pageant is open to infants through 21 years of age. The first pageant, started by Pageants of East Texas, was called the Texas Forest Festival and Little Mr. Timberjack pageant in 1991. The pageant went on to become one of the largest pageant systems in the state with over 100 participants. Four pageants were held during the year: Mr. and Miss Rodeo, Miss Winterfare, Little Miss Fourth of July and Forest Festival. Due to health concerns, director Bobbi Robinson had to cancel the pageants in 1998. “In 2008, when my daughter Kathryn Hensley moved back to Lufkin, we restarted the pageants,� current pageant director and Bobbi’s daughter, Kathryn Williams said. Then the Little Miss Lufkin, Autumn Fest, and the Miss Blueberry pageants were added. The newest pageants will be Miss Pineywoods in Longview on Aug. 17 and Miss Nacogdoches in November. “Our pageant is semi-glitz, which means the contestant is discouraged from wearing excessive makeup and hairpieces, expensive dresses, Photoshopped pictures and showy modeling like the Toddlers and Tiara’s show,� Williams said. “We want to give the contestants more than a crown. Being in a pageant teaches self-confidence, poise, and confidence and builds self-esteem and talent presentation. It’s a wonderful memory to be chosen as a Pageant Queen and King. Winners get to ride in Rodeo and Christmas parades and entertain at different local events. Bobbi’s former pageant girls are moms, and they are bringing back their children for the same experience. Many of our former judges are former contestants. Our first Miss Teen Forest Festival, Tara Watson, went on to become Miss Texas. Presently, Taylor Lowery, Miss Southlake, started our pageants at the age of three. She won Miss Teen Texas and is now competing her first time for Miss Texas.� For more information about the Miss Pineywoods pageant, call 936-2292897 or email Kathryn at kathrynwilliams2020@yahoo.com.

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Ballet Magnificat! by Shea Vogel “Ballet is dance executed by the human soul.” - Alexander Pushkiv. This quote exemplifies Ballet Magnificat! in every way. Founded in 1986 by Keith and Kathy Thibodeaux, the couple had a vision of something unheard of, a touring Christian ballet troupe that would dance to the glory of God. Kathy wanted an outreach ministry in which dancers would share the love of Jesus with their audience. Magnificat is Latin for “to magnify Him,” and the company will be magnifying Him in Longview on September 12 at 7 p.m. at the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center. The Dance Studio of Longview by Tena Scalco Vogel will be opening for the troupe. Ballet Magnificat! guest-taught at the studio this past February. “We fell in love with the company members as people and as dancers and wanted to have the opportunity to share with our community what they had given us,” says Vogel. Peering through the visitors’ window at The Dance Studio in Longview this past February, one would be able to witness guest artists gliding with ease across the dance floor. The dancers from Ballet Magnificat! taught Tena Scalso Vogel’s students ballet and dance variation classes. Company founder Thibodeaux taught a praise and worship class. This was not the first time the Dance Studio and Ballet Magnificat! of Jackson, Mis., have worked together. The studio has had several of its students study with Ballet Magnificat! over the years. The dancers primarily attend the dance school for summer intensives. However, former student Alexis Grimes was recently accepted into the Ballet Magnificat! training program. So, when Ballet Magnificat! asked The Dance Studio to open for their September 12 performance, it was very exciting. Tena Vogel is no stranger to the world of professional dance. She began her ballet training at the age of seven with Longview Ballet Theatre director Pat George Mitchell. Tena recalls attending workshops at TCU with several notable dancers, including Arthur Mitchell and Royes Fernandez. At the age of 14, Vogel was awarded a full Ford Foundation Scholarship to the School of American Ballet for summer study, where the New York City Ballet draws most of its dancers. After being invited to stay with the SAB and train year round, Vogel finished her high school education at Professional Children’s School where the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Yo-Yo Ma, Macaulay Culkin, Carrie Fisher, Scarlett Johansson, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken and Vera Wang have at-

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tended. Tena went on to study at TCU and earned soloist roles with the Fort Worth City Ballet. After dancing with the world famous Kilgore College Rangerettes and teaching for her former instructor Pat George Mitchell, Tena decided to start her own studio. She opened the doors of the dance studio in 1994. Ballet Magnificat!’s Kathy Thibodeaux grew up in Jackson, Mis. Dancing from an early age, she went on to become a principal dancer for the Jackson Ballet Company where she was one of their first contracted dancers. Kathy stepped into the international dance world in 1982, where she won a silver medal at the USA International Ballet Competition. She danced with Jackson Ballet Company until 1986. She became a Christian in 1976 and, with her husband Keith, set out to minister through dance. Keith Thibodeaux is the former child entertainer best known as “Little Ricky” on the I Love Lucy television series and Johnny Paul on The Andy Griffith Show. He was a drummer for the rock band David and the Giants, which later became a groundbreaking Christian rock band, with Keith becoming a Christian in 1974. Ballet Magnicat! is celebrating its 26 year anniversary where their mission statement is: “To present the gospel of Jesus Christ to the widest possible audience through the medium of dance, dance/drama, and personal witness. To help in the restoration of dance as a worshipful part of the life of the Church, by exploring with congregations the part that movement and action can play in the expression of faith. To present public performances for special audiences, such as children’s homes, hospitals, prisons, and senior citizen centers, in recognition of their special place in the eyes of God. To provide a visual and artistic witness to the arts community in particular. To fulfill Jesus’ command in Mark 16:15 through international tours, workshops, and resident dance ministers.” The company has two touring companies, the Alpha and the Omega. Each year, these companies travel to various nations of the Czech Republic, Canada, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Singapore, Germany, South Korea, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Poland, Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Israel, Colombia, The Philippines, People’s Republic of China, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Austria, Kenya, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. The Alpha, which was founded in 1986 and is the oldest and first company, will be performing The Arrival and Deliver Us dances in Longview with The Dance Studio opening for them. It is sure to evoke feelings of awe inspiring movement in the soul. To purchase tickets, call the local box office at 903-233-3080.

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Most museums will include an artist’s lecture as part of a one-artist exhibit. The artist is expected to stand up and describe his work, his methods, and his motives in order to create the art that will be seen on the museum walls during the show. Jones reasoned that no simple lecture could be as emotionally intense as this particular exhibit needed. Instead of a traditional lecture followed by a traditional question and answer segment, he decided to create a mixed media performance piece that would lead viewers into the work. He called the performance piece Chopper Blues. It was later filmed, combining images from the exhibit, the live performance, and also the electronic track. The exhibit traveled through the Midwest during 1985-1986 under the auspices of the Mid-America Arts Alliance and was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Since that time, Chopper Blues has taken on a life of its own. The title, Chopper Blues, comes from the fact that helicopters were a large part of the Vietnam War. “You show me a Vietnam veteran who doesn’t respond to the sound of a helicopter, and I will show you a deaf man!” Jones said. As artist and author, he divided the book into eight sections. The first section, “Beginnings,” is autobiographical. It describes how and why someone who was interested in earning a master of fine arts degree decided to enlist in the Marines. It captures the sense of the time, and it describes how he, and so many other young men like him, were caught up by the Vietnam War. This chapter makes it clear how his experiences of that war took over his life. This section follows him from training at Camp Pendleton, across the Pacific Ocean to Okinawa. The chapter, “Being There,” includes his experiences in Operation Starlite. While the name sounds lovely and poetic, the actual battle was nothing of the sort. It was a

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brutal and bloody combat operation. It was significant because it was the first combined helicopter and amphibious landing in history. 54 marines were killed along with more than 600 of the enemy. The book includes a personal and on-the spot description of “Operation Piranha.” There is a description of base camp life on the Trung Phan Peninsula, along with a section called “Realities and Premonitions.” The company began with 189 men. During the time on the peninsula, that number grew smaller and smaller as men were either killed, wounded in battle or had to be evacuated because of sickness. By March 15, 1969, only 114 men remained and many of these had premonitions that they would be wounded or would die in battle. Heartbreaking descriptions of the deaths of these young men remind us that there is much more to the words that are used to describe soldiers, such as “wounded” or “lost.” Through Jones’ eyes we are reminded that these men were real people who had real lives, real personalities, real families, real hopes and dreams, and real faces. The third chapter is taken completely from the Vietnam Suite with reproductions of the exhibit’s incredibly dramatic drawings, woodcuts and paintings. Here the nightmarish visual images are combined with the beating heart of poetry. Jones captures the reader’s imagination and carries one directly into the Delta under the whirling chopper blades into the bloodiest cruelties of the war, to a place where it is impossible to ignore the faces of the living and the dead. Chapter Four, “Operation Indiana,” or “The Battle,” may well be the most difficult part of the book. It describes exactly what happened on March 28, 1966, when Charley Company, which was now only a half strength company of Marines, was ambushed by a powerful regimental force. “We were supposed to be a blocking position, but we found ourselves pitted against a North Vietnamese battalion that was dug in with heavy weapons. The battle that took place took four full hours. By the end of that time, we had only 60 left of 120 men. My platoon went from 40 men to 20,” he said. Jones describes the actions and reactions of individual ma-

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rines who put their lives on the line in acts of bravery and selfless heroism before they were finally able to subdue the enemy. For accuracy, he includes official records, as well as the stories of survivors, their names and photographs. Chapter Five includes the many medals that were awarded to the men of “Suicide Charley.” There were six Silver Stars, a number of Bronze Stars, 40 Purple Hearts, two Navy Crosses and a Congressional Medal of Honor. He starts this chapter with this dignified announcement: “This is a full text of copies of citations for Members of Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines for the period of 8 August 1965 to June 15, 1966.” Even so, Jones is careful to mention that many additional acts of selflessness and heroism were, and will always remain, unmarked and unrewarded. In an unusual departure from most books that are written about wars, Chapter Six, “Women’s Song,” tells how important the women in their lives were to the fighting men and how the war changed the lives of the women who waited desperately for letters and messages from their marines, as well as for the marines who waited eagerly for letters and messages from their loved ones at home. Some of the women’s stories are poignant, some are sad, and some are absolutely horrifying. Chapter Seven, “Taps,” is a tribute of sorts to those who were killed in action or who have died since the Vietnam War. Many of them died as the result of complications that developed from their wartime wounds, both physical and emotional. Chapter Eight, “Small Arms and the Things We Carried,” the final chapter, is a glossary of the arms and equipment they had with them. It describes everything from the various kinds of weapons, including machine guns and hand grenades, to mortars, rifles, pistols, and rocket launchers, as well as field dressing bandages, packaged meals, cigarettes, and the boots on their feet. When the USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of the 2013 International Book Awards, Charles Douglas Jones’ book Chopper Blues was named the winner for the category of Military History for 2013 and was also finalist for the category of Autobiography/ Memoir. Chopper Blues has made it possible to create a measure of beauty from the horrors of war.

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crew are following 12 Rangerette “hopefuls” and six prospective Rangerette officers. This group of girls represent the amazing transformation that takes place during the audition process. “From meek, quiet little freshmen, to minicamp, and then to tryouts, that’s where you really start to see how it molds them for society,” says Hale. There is no greater proof of this transformation then when you look at the careers of countless former Rangerettes. So many have done extraordinary things that not only benefit the community, but contribute to society as a whole, especially since girls come from all over the country to audition. No two people understand this transformation better than current director Dana Blaire and choreographer Shelley Wayne. The pair work tirelessly year after year to maintain the extraordinary qualities so unique to this organization. As for his part in the project, Hale declares he’s “having a blast!” It is evident, however, that there is nothing lighthearted about his devotion to the film. Since pre-production began in October 2012, countless hours of hard work have been involved, which include securing investors, hiring an attorney, and acquiring the necessary equipment. The task of editing hours upon hours of footage will also prove to be quite an undertaking, one Hale is admittedly anxious about. Hale and his crew are well on their way to executing a vision for the film, which will be presented in three acts. Currently in their third round of filming, the crew will continue following their 12 “hopefuls” throughout tryouts for the 2013-2014 freshmen lines. No matter what your involvement for the Rangerette organization has been, Sweethearts of the Gridiron: An American Story is truly a local story that shows the organization’s influence throughout the nation.

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This month’s lyric is from a song that had a huge effect on me when I first heard it. It is also the song that launched James Taylor’s career and anchored his game-changing album, Sweet Baby James – an album that proved singer/songwriters could make the top 40 and sell lots and lots of product. The song “Fire and Rain” was written about the suicide of Taylor’s childhood friend, Suzanne Schnerr, while he was in London hanging out at Apple Studios recording his first album. It also references his own struggle with depression and drug addiction, which led him to be institutionalized at a point in his life. This song is particularly appropriate for this column, as we are going

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to talk about mental health, addiction and the arts – topics which are unfortunately related. I just lost another friend to suicide. The sad thing is, I did not see it coming. His mood always seemed to be up; he was the life of the party and class clown. In addition, he was a gifted musician, maybe even a musical genius. It seemed to me that music poured from his fingers with no effort at all. But no more because he could no longer deal with depression. Notice that I said I lost another friend, because about 12 years ago, I lost an even closer friend to suicide. He was a gifted songwriter who was experiencing considerable commercial success with a bright future when he took his own life. In both cases, the suicides made no sense until I began to look back and speak with their friends. Apparently, we had all seen signs, but it wasn’t until we all talked about them that the pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, depression and addiction are too often associated with incredible talent. I believe that many times substance abuse is an effort to self-medicate depression and other mental problems until the substance becomes physically addictive. By the time a person realizes they are addicted, they have created yet another issue to deal with in addition to being in a bad mental state. It becomes a vicious cycle. They may manage to break the addiction, but then the original problems they experienced reappear. I am well aware that there are legal and safe drugs that, if used correctly, are available to help with mental disease, but they often create other problems and can have disastrous side ef-

addressed. This is one of those times. fects, especially Hold your friends close. In the artist for someone community, friends can be closer than that is creative. family because so much in common is That is assuming shared – not real, red blood but certhat the artist will tainly creative blood. admit they have a Life is hard, and each of us will see problem, and they can fire and rain during our time on earth. afford treatment. My I am suggesting that lonely times withfriend who took his own out a friend don’t have to happen. It life years ago told me that the seems like such a little thing – being a medication he was given for bifriend, but a true friend who will listen polar disorder made him feel like without judging can help someone who he was wrapped in plastic and that he really needs the help. could not react to the world properly. Who knows if by listening, we He also claimed that it greatly diminmight save a person on the edge, but I ished his ability to create. A real twosure intend to try. We can never know edged sword, isn’t it? He had to make or fully appreciate the demons faced by the choice to either treat his illness or others, but we can relate by facing our lose the ability to earn a living and feed own first. It is on each of us separately his family. That choice alone made his to shoulder that responsibility. I wish feelings of hopelessness increase. there was a better answer, but unfortuKeep your friends close. In the nately, there isn’t. Life is shorter than creative business, depression is unforwe know and more difficult than we tunately common and often goes unexpect, and the only way to face the noticed. Although in hindsight, it can fire and the rain life brings is to lean on be more detectable. In our crazy, busy each other. day-to-day lives, most won’t see it coming because we are all wrapped up in our own lives, simply dealing Life is shorter than we know and with the everyday job of more difficult than we expect, and the living and moving that only way to face the fire and the rain life game piece a little further around the board. brings is to lean on each other. Life is hard for everyone, and artists often As always, thanks for reading, have a hard time dealing with strong and if you have comments, suggestions feelings, yet they want to leave themor criticisms about this or any of my selves vulnerable to emotion in order columns, feel free to send them to me: to create. Most learn to temporarily randy@brownrandy.com shut out certain things so that they can If you ever simply get curious be processed later when given a little about what the heck this rambling old distance. However, for a truly creative man does, then go to www.brownran person, those filtering tools are somedy.com/music. Listen to a few songs times broken and fail to work well and let me know what you think. enough. See you next issue. So, what can be done about it? To be honest, I can’t tell you. In both cases, the act was planned a considerable time in advance, but it was kept Randy Brown is retired from a real job, secret from everyone until it was too though he still manages to function as late. All we can do is be there for our a singer/songwriter living in East Texfriends and listen to them. If they really as. and has been involved with many trust us, they may share some of their sides of the music business over the struggles. Really listen and don’t try to years, from being a sideman, a sound solve their problems. Instead, offer to man, touring songwriter, operator of a be there whenever they need to talk to venue, and a recording studio owner/ someone. Will that save them? Who engineer. He keeps saying he will stay knows, but at least you will have done closer to his friends but never seems to, something. until suddenly they are no longer there In the end, I realize this column has to be close to any more. He has got to almost nothing to do with music, but do better at that. sometimes things arise that need to be

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