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Join us as we take a trip to Nacogdoches to The Cole Art Center, where Stephen F. Austin State University’s College of Fine Arts and School of Art present Dia de los Muertos: The Art of the Living and the Dead as part of the 2013-2014 University Series Live Out Loud. We’ll learn about their upcoming exhibition and what “Dia de los Muertos” is all about.

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ABOUT THE CO ABOUT COVER... OVER... This month’s issue centers around the Day of the Dead. The cover shot was taken at the Kilgore Cemetery by Shawn Douglas Lindsey, with hair and make-up done by aspiring make-up artist Raina Baughman, 10th Grader at East Texas Charter School.

by Dawn Renée-Rice by Ben Valencia

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Publisher’s

STAFF Publishers / Editors Tracy Magness & Gary Krell Publicists Andrea Johnson & Ben Valencia Advertising Director Suzanne Warren

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Contributing Writers Ben Valencia, Jan Statman, Tony McCullough, Randy Brown, Dawn-Renée Rice, Claudia Lowery, Andrea Johnson, Robbie Goodrich

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Come on, oh baby, don’t you want to go Oh come on, oh baby, don’t you want to go Back to that same old place Sweet home Chicago I have had many memorable music experiences as a spectator. Seeing Jerry Lee Lewis hammering on an upright piano when I was about sixteen or so, watching the great B. B. King a couple of decades ago, and so on. But in September, along with a couple hundred others, I had a chance to witness something truly remarkable, forming an impression that will stay with me for a long, long time. It happened at the ETX Music Awards ceremony in Bullard. At the end of the scheduled music performances, after the final set by the Wes Jeans Band with Tyler Lenius, and after a good part of the crowd had departed, a jam session developed that was jaw dropping. We had already heard an eclectic series of performances by some very talented musicians that ranged from bluegrass to hip-hop. To cap it all off, Jeans and Lenius were joined on stage by guitarists Donnie Pendelton and Jason Helms. Consider how rare it is to see these four guys on stage at one time: they all have busy music careers, and even though they are all from East Texas, because of scheduling, I would venture to say that it is probably difficult for them to even see each other play, let alone play together. But when they launched into an extended Blues Brothers version of “Sweet home Chicago,” it was as if they had been playing together for years. It was a testimony to the depth of talent that springs from the Piney Woods that I feel privileged to have witnessed it. You can see pictures of this event on the Photobooth page in this issue, or go to pineywoodslive.com /photos for even more shots. October is the big month for fall festivals in the Piney Woods, and this year brings a bumper crop for our enjoyment. Dawn-Renée Rice brings us a report on the first ever Tree of Life Music and Art Festival, while we present a complete list of area festivals on our Events page. Also in this issue, Tony McCullough reports on our desire to be “scared out of our wits” and the entertaiment industry that has grown up to support this need. Beyond Halloween and Hollywood, the traditional “scary” celebration has not escaped our notice, as Robbie Goodrich covers the upcoming Day of the Dead art exhibit at SFA’s Cole Art Center. We are proud to have Robbie as a contributor to our magazine. You can read her bio below. Robbie Goodrich is a journalist whose writing career in East Texas has spanned more than 30 years. She worked for The Daily Sentinel in Nacogdoches, Texas, for 30 years as a reporter and editor before leaving the newspaper industry in 2012 to assume her current position as director of arts information for the College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University. As managing editor of The Sentinel, she led the reporting team during coverage of the tragic Columbia space shuttle explosion and as hurricanes Rita and Ike swept through East Texas, and she assisted colleagues in earning numerous Associated Press writing, photography and page design awards over the years. Today, she markets and promotes the many events that occur within the SFA Schools of Music, Theater and Art. She is an active volunteer in her community, serving on the boards of the Nacogdoches Treatment Center, Nacogdoches Crime Stoppers and Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful. Looking a little further ahead, Jan Statman previews the November performance by New York City Ballet members in Once Upon a Circus. One last tip: Don’t miss Jan Statman’s Artist’s World column this month. It is an imaginary delight. To keep up with all that is going on in the Piney Woods, consult our comprehensive events calendar at pineywoodslive.com/events. As always, we want to hear your thoughts, concerns, complaints and suggestions about the magazine and art topics in general. You can comment on individual stories at pineywoodslive. com or at Facebook.com/pineywoodslive. Email us at publisher@pineywoodslive.com, or just give us a call at 903-758-6900.

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ARTIST’S INTERVIEW WITH

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Longview ongview artist Jeannie Davis has enjoyed many well-deserved successes this year. September was particularly eventful for her. Her pastel drawing Jars & Eggs was exhibited in New York City during the Enduring Brilliance exhibit hosted by the Pastel Society of America. This was the society’s forty-first exhibit and was seen during the month of September at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park in New York City. Summer Reflections, a collection of twenty-five of the artist’s works, is exhibited by the Bossier Arts Council in Bossier City September 28 through October 30. In describing the exhibit, Davis said, “Summer “Summer Reflections is a collection of glass canning jars, fruits, vegetables, flowers and found objects that bring back secure thoughts of having plenty, including food, safe environments and the love of family and friends.” The works in the exhibit not only reflect the way light shines on glass objects, it also reflects the comfort these things bring to her. “I had the luxury of growing up in the South where there was always an abundance of home grown produce in the summer.” she continued. “The items not only show a realistic interpretation but a symbolic one as well.

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Although I grew up in a middle class, Norman Rockwell type family, I have learned that my greatest wealth is actually in the many blessings and abundance of love that was shared through the art of friends’ gardens and gifts.” Her work won the Merchant Award for Jars & Carrots at the Richardson Civic Art Society Forty-Seventh Regional Juried Art Exhibit at the Eisemann Center in Dallas in May of 2103. Jars & Eggs was not only accepted but also received the second place award for drawing in the Texas & Neighbors Twenty-Eighth Regional Art Exhibition Exhibition,, which included works by Texas artists and artists in the states surrounding Texas. It was seen at the Irving Arts Center in Irving, April 21-May 27, 2013. Davis was awarded the Verilux/F&W Publications Pastel Journal Award in the For Pastels Only 2012 exhibit at the South Yarmouth Museum of Art in Cape Cod. She has also won second place in Pastels or Graphics for her pastel, Summer Tomatoes Tomatoes,, at the Richardson Civic Art Society’s 46th Regional Juried Art Exhibit at the Eisemann Center in Dallas. Three Jars of Jelly

“I think we are born knowing we are artists,” she said. “But sometimes we don’t accept the idea for one reason or another. Maybe it is because we don’t think we are good enough. Maybe it is because other things come into our world.”

was awarded a merit award, and Three Peaches class and a Pre-AP drawing class. My students was awarded a Still Life/Floral award in The continue to be my inspiration for teaching. Their Pastel Society of the Southwest 2011 Annual creativeness and enthusiasm for learning keeps National Juried Show exhibited at the Eisemann me interested and engaged in teaching.” Center in Dallas. At the beginning of every school year, she Jeannie Davis lives in a world of light. The begins her classes by saying, “Art is not merely light that comes through her kitchen window re- copying a photograph or recreating something flects on her collection of everyday glass objects. one has seen, but it is the ability to translate what The light that falls on Mason jars, cups, saucers is seen in an artistic, creative impression.” This and bottles at different hours of the day inspires holds true in her own work as well. “Simple her paintings. She says, “I get inspiration from objects caught in the afternoon light bring great all over the place. Sometimes I don’t even know joy to me,” she said, and added that they capture what I am going to do with all the inspiration memories of light and summer. She said, “My that comes to me.” It is through the source of goal has been to recreate these snapshot memolight that her imagination flows. She has always been interArt is not merely copying a photograph or ested in the way light reflects on and refracts off glass obrecreating something one has seen, but it jects. She explained that even is the ability to translate what is seen in an when she was in high school, she collected interesting glass artistic, creative impression.” bottles with different colors and shapes. She kept them on shelves in her room, and she always took the ries through ‘comfort objects,’ much like comfort time to draw them. food, or things that make me feel secure and hap“I think we are born knowing we are art- py.” ists,” she said. “But sometimes we don’t accept The soft-spoken artist chooses to paint in the idea for one reason or another. Maybe it a manner of magic realism because she feels a is because we don’t think we are good enough. great joy in being able to recreate the beauty of Maybe it is because other things come into our all the gifts life has given to her. She said, “It world.” has become a type of ‘comfort food’ for my soul. Of course, those high school collections Watching the afternoon light change as it shines are gone now, but as an adult, she said she has through my kitchen window and illuminates ranstarted collecting glass bottles again. She sur- dom objects is exciting to me. I enjoy playing rounds her artistic vision with the way light with color and have found soft pastels to be a comes through glass and bounces into a vision medium that allows me to experiment with layers that is beautiful. of color. Making little marks of bright hues jump Davis grew up in Shreveport. While she as they hit the complimentary background that I was in high school, she participated in a com- often create with an acrylic or oil wash on paper mercial fine arts program called “Caddo Career can become challenging but also satisfying.” Center.” Students were given time from their She has had the opportunity to work in regular school hours to take part in the pro- multiple media and processes, and considers her gram. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree favorite to be pastels. She also enjoys working from Louisiana Tech in Ruston, La., where she with clay, drawing and painting. “My recent graduated cum laude with a fine arts degree in work depicts a focus on how light hits certain obart education with certification to teach kinder- jects and landscapes, creating a strong emphasis garten through twelfth grade in Louisiana. She on contrast and intensity in color and value,” she later completed certification from the University explained. When she is not able to use pastels, of North Texas at Commerce in order to be able she enjoys drawing with a pen and painting with to teach in Texas. She completed two separate watercolors. She also enjoys offering students as certifications for art educators and completed an many chances as possible to explore their own AP certification class at the University of Texas strengths and weaknesses, and she attempts to at Austin in order to teach AP studio art classes. have them focus on their own personal marks The artist shares her talents with her stu- and style. dents at Hallsville High School where she is the Her teaching career has given her the opFine Arts Department chair and Art Club spon- portunity to become versatile in her career as a sor. “Since I started teaching at the high school, creative artist. She said, “When my art starts to the visual arts program has doubled in students,” become routine or too easy or safe, it is time to she said. “I also introduced the AP courses and take it to a new edge. Being well-versed in the use have seen my students’ scores increase with each of media and style helps me help my students find year of experience. 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with me. Teaching and learning from my students is a gift. The dessert is realizing the many ingredients I have available to me through family and friends.” In describing her painting In a Pig’s Eye, the artist said, “My dad collected pigs because we had a pig roast once a year in our backyard. The first one he had was to celebrate the completion of our house. People who attended thought the idea was so much fun they all started giving him pigs for gifts.”

As Time Goes By is an image of milk bottles from when I was growing up in Shreveport,” she said. “We drove to Hamill’s Dairy to buy our milk and would trade in our milk bottles. Color and light always captivates my attention.” When she talked about her work titled Seize the Day, she said, “When I bought these eggs at the Historic Farmer’s Market in downtown Longview, I knew I had to draw them.”

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by Dawn-Renée Rice

Music & Arts Festival

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he East Texas community is invited to come together on October 5, 2013, at Teague Park in Longview from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. to celebrate music and art at the Tree of Life Music and Arts Festival. This is the first year for this free event, which is open to the public. Attendees will enjoy a variety of Christian and Gospel musical performances, live art experiences, a treasure hunt and a fun community-wide art project. ex There will be three large art canvases on-site so festival goers can help create one vast va community-wide masterpiece which, when finished, will be auctioned off with proceeds benefitting the Tree of Life Outreach Ministries. p According to festival director Cheyenne Bussey, “One of God’s purposes for this festival is to create a picture of what the church is really supposed to look like,” said fe Bussey. “It’s about breaking down the walls of religious institutions so that His chilB dren can come together as one church.” d “It is a place for our community to come together without judgment and be loved right where we are at in life. Outreach organizations will be available for anyone in ri need of the loving guidance God has to offer all of us,” she said. “But it is also an n outreach for churchgoers to stand together united in their love for Him.” o The Festival and its activities are free of charge and any proceeds raised that are not used to take care of this year’s expenses for the event will go towards the Tree of Life u Outreach Ministries. O The event takes place October 5 from noon to 6 p.m. and features musical performances by Humble Heart Band (blues/rock), Blazz (rap), Lee Flowers (bluegrass), Tom m Brewington (violin), Hiway 80 Band (rock), Bowing Branches (classical-alternative), B Deborah Gilbert (Broadway-pop), A.B. Da Disciple (rap), Jack Hopkins (countryD vintage), Bryan Price (old-time gospel), St. Michael’s Band (folk-rock), Ekko (rap), and vi Melanie Watson (contemporary pop). M Festival goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets and creativity for the community-wide art project. Short testimonies will be given throughout the day during set changes, and community outreach resource tables will also be available at the event. For more information about the Tree of Life Music and Art Festival, call 903-738-0349.

Humble Heart Band Blues/Rock 12:30 Bowing Branches Classical/Alternative 1:00 Flowers & Akin Gospel Ministry Bluegrass/Rockabilly 1:30 Julia Howard, Ernest William Old-Time Gospel 2:00 Blazz, A.B. Da Disciple, Ekko Rap 3:00 Deborah Gilbert Broadway/Pop 3:30 Bryan Price Old-Time Gospel 4:00 Jack Hopkins Country/Vintage 4:30 St. Michael’s Band Folk/Rock 5:00 Hiway 80 Band Rock 12:00

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cake for dessert that melted in my mouth. Looking over the menu, I opted for The Big Green with hummus, olive spread, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and cucumber in a wrap, enjoying it to the last bite. The olive spread is made in-house. I also sampled the cranberry chicken salad and a tasty surprise that I normally would never order – chili. I “like” chili, but it would not be something I’d usually order. Well, here’s a real news scoop for our readers. As I tasted Sweet Sabine’s chili, I thought, “Wow! This has GREAT flavor!” I expressed my pleasure to Juli, and she smiled, sharing that her chili was a winner in the local division during the recent chili cook-off. Her face beamed with pride as I congratulated her. Then she shared a secret and gave me permission to share the secret with

you. Her chili is vegan… meatless. “Seriously? What did the judges say about that?” I exclaimed. Her smile broadened. “Yes, it is all plant based and as for the judges, there were no rules requiring a list of ingredients. I won based on taste and never said a word,” Juli divulged. I couldn’t tell that it was meatless, but then, I’m no chili expert. As I scraped out the last morsel, my brain was already thinking ahead to a cool autumn day and a tasty bowl of Sweet Sabine’s chili… and I’m no vegan. I love meat. There are actually two menus: a regular menu and one that offers vegetarian or vegan items with healthy options. Both menus offer choices for every taste like The Courthouse Croissant with turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese and avocado spread; The Big Tex with ham, turkey, roast beef, and bacon; the American Cheese on

White; and a Hot Link Sandwich with links cooked in beer. There are also standards like the PB&J or grilled cheese sandwiches. Salads include chicken salad, The Big Salad, a hummus plate and more. The giant spuds can be loaded up with all your favorites. One item unique to Sweet Sabine’s is Bellini peach tea, a fresh concoction served from a large urn with fresh peaches floating inside. The flavor is “amazingly addictive.” When a business strives to reach out to a community with food that is affordable and tasty, it is worth a try. The part I love about writing this column is that it causes me to get out of my little comfort zone and try new places. It doesn’t always work, but at Sweet Sabine’s, you’ll find that for a new business, it’s doing alright and constantly evolving. They are keeping two lunchtime delivery staff members busy daily. Delivery is free for any amount you order – a sandwich and tea or two dozen cupcakes – it’s what they do. So, I want to encourage everyone to take your appetite to new places and help local restaurants that are trying to get established. Be supportive and encouraging by returning occasionally to sample new menu items and give the local economy a boost. In other words… be sweet… and enjoy a cupcake along the way. Sweet Sabine’s is located at 111 E. Houston on the Marshall courthouse square. Phone: 903-702-7933. Find them on Facebook under Sweet Sabine’s. Hours: M-F 11:00-2:00. Catering and delivery are available.

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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DAY

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by Ben Valencia

DEAD Must-haves to make your own altar

Papel Picado

Literally “perforated paper,” is used for holiday decoration, including secular and religious. You can find this paper at most paper crafting outlets. Just before Dia de Los Muertos, families will clean and remove furniture from a certain area of their home to provide space for an altar. This altar, which will be used for remembering those who have passed, will consist of a covered table, a few crates to create shelving and, more than likely, a picture of the Virgin Mary and/or religious crosses. The altar is then set up with appropriate ofrendas, or offerings, for this celebration. The ofrendas include several objects like soap and a basin that will provide the means for the traveling spirit to clean up after their journey home. Pictures of those remembered are placed on the altar, as well as personal belongings of the deceased. Other items that the deceased may have enjoyed while living will also be placed on the altar. Certain foods are also placed there to nourish the traveling soul. Some of the offerings at these altars can represent the four elements of nature: fire, wind, water and earth.

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Velas (Candles) are used as a means

to provide a guiding light, “guiding” the souls back home. This candle and others can be found on etsy.com.

Sugar Skull Coated with sweet icing and decorated with elaborate designs, the sugar represents the sweetness of lives as the skull itself represents death and its sadness. PineyWoodsLive.com

Photos/ Frames

Photos of the deceased are placed on the altar to honor th them. Some use or ornate frames such as this one. Frames can be found at m most retail out outlets.

Decor Food

Favorite foods of the deceased being honored are also placed on the altar.

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Flowers

Marigolds are also placed on the altar, because they represent death. Although beautiful, they smell horrible.

A skull lantern such as this one can be used for extra decoration for the altar. When it comes to making an altar, use creativity – the sky is the limit. This particular lantern can be found on etsy.com.

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Longview Ballet Theatre Presents

Once Upon a Circus By Jan Statman

The Circus is coming to Longview with its sights and sounds, including the music, the dancing, the clowns and... ballet. Ballet? Yes indeed! Longview Ballet Theatre and seven principal dancers from New York City Ballet will present Once Upon a Circus Nov. 9 and 10. The Belcher Center’s stage will come alive with all the joy and excitement of the circus as interpreted for the ballet by Pat George Mitchell, artistic director of the Longview Ballet Theatre. There will be only three performances: a matinee at 2:30 p.m. and an evening performance at 7:30 p.m. on November 9 and a 2:30 p.m. matinee on November 10. Mitchell promises the gala performance “will have you smiling from the beginning to the end.” The Longview Ballet Theatre moved the date of their annual gala to November so that Stars of the American Ballet could come to Longview. Stars of the American Ballet, organized by Daniel Ulbricht, is a dance ensemble devoted to presenting high caliber dance performances, as well as education and outreach programs. Stars of the American Ballet consists of principal dancers from major New York ballet companies and has had a busy traveling schedule of performances across the globe, including St. Petersburg, Fla; Buffalo, N.Y.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Santa Fe, N.M.; Ulaan Baator, Mongolia; and the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Dallas. “Rarely do cities the size of Longview have the opportunity to see this many world-class ballet dancers perform locally,” Mitchell said. The seven principal dancers include Daniel Ulbricht, Lauren Lovette, Teresa Reichlen, Amar Ramasar, Megan Fairchild, Tiler Peck, and Robert Fairchild. Longview audiences will remember the once-in-a-lifetime experience as they watch Daniel Ulbricht soar to impossible heights in his spectacular performance as the Prince in the ballet’s performances of The Nutcracker, and in the title role as Peter Pan. Ulbricht joined the New York City Ballet in 2000, where he was promoted to soloist in 2005 and principal dancer in 2007. He has danced principal roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon,

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and others. He performed at the Kennedy Center to celebrate the Balanchine Centenary, and he has danced at many national and international festivals and galas, including a performance for the Royal Family in London and a gala at the White House. He is the artistic advisor of Manhattan Youth Ballet and serves as an artistic consultant to a number of national schools. He’s a guest teacher at SAB and Ballet Academy East in New York City and at recognized schools and universities throughout the United States. Lauren Lovette became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 2009 and joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2010. She has been featured in such ballets as Jerome Robbins’ Interplay, 2 & 3 Part Inventions, West Side Story, Balanchine’s Apollo, Rubies, The Nutcracker, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, and Mercurial Manoeuvres. She was promoted to soloist with the New York City Ballet in 2013. Teresa Reichlen became an apprentice with the New York City Ballet in 2000, and in 2001 she joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet. She was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2005, was promoted to principal dancer in 2009 and has been featured in a number of ballets since that time. Amar Ramasar was invited to become an apprentice with the New York City Ballet and joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001. He was promoted to soloist in 2006 and was promoted to principle dancer in 2009.

Megan Fairchild was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2004 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2005. Since joining New York City Ballet, she has performed in a variety of works. Tiler Peck was promoted to soloist in December 2006 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2009. She has performed in many Balanchine ballets and has been critically acclaimed in works choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon and Susan Stroman. Ms. Peck is a 2004 recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation - USA Dance Fellowship, the 2004 Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise, and was the Janice Levin Honoree for 2006-2007. Ms. Peck also received the Princess Grace Statue Award, given to distinguished previous Princess Grace Award winners, in 2013. Robert Fairchild is Megan Fairchild’s brother. He was promoted to soloist with the New York City Ballet in 2007 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2009. Mr. Fairchild has danced numerous roles in the company’s vast repertoire. He has also performed and originated roles in works created by Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Martins, and Jerome Robbins. He and his sister are both recipients of the Mae L. Wien Award at the School of American Ballet. They are the only sister and brother to share this distinction The Longview Ballet Theatre continues to involve local people in its programs. In addition to the Stars of the

Ballet ensemble of New York City Ballet principal dancers, Once Upon a Circus will include the talents of Kathryn Harris, a senior member of the Longview Ballet Company and Lara Warren, who was with the trainee program at the Boston Ballet. The Longview Ballet Theatre’s young ballet students will appear as “The Children of The Circus,” and also as “The Ponies of the Circus.” “What is a circus without a magician?” Pat George Mitchell asked. “Blake Erskine will appear as Merlin the Magician. Chad Neuman will perform as The Sailor and as The Juggler. Rebecca Rowe will be the Circus Acrobat. And then we will bring on the clowns! Gene Jordan, Dr. Randy Williams and John Rowe will be onstage as the circus clowns,” she said. The East Texas Symphonic Band under the direction of Dr. James Snowden will be the Special Guest Orchestra playing Barnum and Bailey’s favorite marches. They will also play a medley from the musical Carousel, as well as popular music from the 1940s. Pat Carmack will be the pianist. Cindy Perkins will not only be the vocalist, she will also take the reins as Ringmaster for this particular circus. Pat George Mitchell said, “This will be a quick moving, lively time filled with wonderful music and brilliant dancing.” For further information, call the Longview Ballet Theatre at 903-7583822. To purchase tickets, go to www. belchercenter.com or call 903-2333080.

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by Robbie Goodrich

Day of the Dead Exhibit to feature 13 altars created by North and East Texas artists Artwork by Wally Knight

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hile some ome view the subject of death with sorrow and melancholy, today’s traditional of the Dead Day o observances are brighter, with emphasis on honoring those who have passed on in the belief that death is not the end, but rather a new beginning. It is a celebration of life. Day of the Dead traditions will come to life Nov. 1 in The Cole Art Center at The Old Opera House in historic downtown Nacogdoches when the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Art present Día de los Muertos: The Art of the Living and the Dead as part of the 2013-2014 University Series, Live Out Loud. The exhibition, featuring 13 altars created by North and East Texas area artists and “non-artists,” will explore traditional Day of the Dead observances through different cultural, ethnic and religious/non-religious perspectives, according to John Handley, SFA galleries director. “This exhibition explores traditional and reinterpreted household altars,” Handley said. “One aspect of this exhibition that I believe will bring a new dimension to this folk art tradition is that the artists are of various ethnicities and religious/spiritual backgrounds. “For many years, the Oakland Museum of California has hosted a similar exhibition each Nov. 1, and it has grown to become its biggest event, attracting thousands of visitors to the museum annually,” Handley said. “I was very moved by many of the installations when I saw them,” he said. “I have been networking to seek

out a variety of artists whom I felt would bring depth and variety – and even a little humor, which is an important aspect to the celebration – to the exhibition.” Unlike Halloween, the Day of the Dead observance is considered a joyful celebration of life, honoring the souls of the deceased. Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a Mexican term derived from the Roman Catholic All Saints’ and All Souls’ days, traditionally observed Nov. 1 and 2. An array of activities, from decorating graves to creating home altars to carnival-like performances, are highlights of the celebration that can last for days. Perhaps the best-known imagery that comes to mind with the Day of the Dead is the animated skeletons made famous by Mexican artist and cartoonist José Posada (1852-1913), who is remembered today as the greatest printmaker in Mexico’s history. “The Day of the Dead altars in Cole Art Center will be created in a variety of media, made by both trained and untrained artists,” Handley said. The first altar patrons will encounter when entering Ledbetter Gallery in the art center will be a traditional altar presented by the Robles family of Lufkin. For Lupita, Javier and Yamilex Robles, creating a Día de los Muertos altar is an annual occurrence that brings their Hispanic culture to their East Texas home. It’s a tradition that has passed from generation to generation in their family, according to Yamilex, 16. In the weeks leading up to Nov. 1, Yamilex and her family begin gathering photos of their deceased loved ones, food items that they used to enjoy when they were alive, and flowers and candles to begin preparing the altar in their home. “The reason behind the Day of the Dead is to celebrate that they have gone

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It’s the elephant in the room people try to ignore, steeped in folklore, superstition and religion.”

Artwork by Posada, José Guadalupe, Calaveras del Monton, 1910 on to a better place, and during this period, they come and visit, which is why we put the food items there – so they can enjoy them like they did when they were alive,” Yamilex said. “It’s a moment to celebrate – not their passing away but that we’ve moved on but still remember. We’re celebrating their life.” “Patrons will see a variety of altars, some more conceptual and some that might not seem like an altar at all but are the artist’s interpretation,” Handley said. “Some of the altars will have interactive components, including sound and light, and some will be several feet in dimension. There will also be a community altar where visitors will be encouraged to pin a small (non-returnable) copy of a photograph of a deceased relative or friend, and also write a short memento about them.” Upstairs in the Reavley Gallery will be the art of John August Swanson, a Mexican/ Swedish artist, along with Day of the Dead masks made by area high school students. A documentary highlighting the various artists and their work in Día de los Muertos: The Art of the Living and the Dead will also be featured. It is produced by SFA cinematography student Kat Garcia. “In keeping with the idea of traditional Day of the Dead altars, artists are encour-

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aged to make their works ‘as personal as possible,’” Handley said. “Innovation is welcome,” he said. “Artists are also welcome to visit, by appointment, their altar and make changes regularly.” “It’s a great subject,” Nacogdoches artist Wally Knight said of the altar he is creating. “It’s the elephant in the room people try to ignore, steeped in folklore, superstition and religion.” A self-described “outsider artist,” Knight works with “found objects” to create unique works of art. For this exhibition, Knight plans to create an enclosed walk-in structure with antique wood to make an altar that’s “creepy cool” with a “House-ofSpirits theme,” he said. Lufkin artist Denise Stringer Davis’ love of Mexican art grew from the similar interest of Charles D. Jones, her mentor and art professor at SFA, in the art of that region. Jones is professor emeritus in the School of Art and currently is master printer for the LaNana Creek Press in the SFA College of Fine Arts. “My interest in the intersections of tradition, culture, religion and art meshed perfectly with this,” Davis said of the subject of her altar. “Over time, my interests might shift slightly, but I always seem to come

back to these ideas. These topics fit well with a body of work I did exploring identity based on where I come from. “As a young person, we often rush to get away from where we come from as quickly as we can,” she said. Forcing herself to step back and take a thoughtful look at what shaped her life, based on her connection to place, culture, tradition and ancestry, was the focus of a series created by Davis. “This exhibition brings all of this together,” she said. Her altar will feature cast plaster cupping hands that will create one level in a half circle around three chairs that will create another level of horizontal surface. A third level will be created by two chairs facing one another, balanced on the seats of the lower three. Objects will be placed on the seats of the chairs utilizing them like shelves. A large lace element will hang behind that, creating a semi-transparent screen. “Behind the screen will be prints that I have created that represent different people from my life who have died,” Davis said. Phillip Shore, associate professor of sculpture at University of Dallas, said he was “intrigued” by the idea of creating an altar. “I had been reading authors who address the relationship, or the diminishing nature of that relationship, humans have with the physical world,” Shore said. “My work looks at this topic, and I felt it would be interesting to create a work that explored this from the form of a sacred object, the altar, and to do it at a scale that relates to the human form.” Shore’s altar will incorporate items “found/taken/raised from the land that exhibits our relationship.” Some of these items consist of a large slab of sycamore wood that becomes the surface of the altar and spiraled carvings that are reminiscent of elements found in nature, he said. Adriana Martinez-Gonzales is creating an installation “devoted to one familiar relationship that marked by childhood: my grandmother,” she said.

“Traditionally, personal objects belonging to the dead are used in the altar,” she said. “In this case, I will use objects that recall my memories of everyday spaces and moments at my grandmother’s house. Some objects deal with meaning, some with formal qualities and others with symbolism from a typical altar.” Other works in the exhibition are by Aloma Marquis, Maki Hajikano and Gary Parker, SFA art faculty, and Irma Martinez Sizer, Stanley Bohon, Byron Lacy, Tina Medina and Merci Nicklas. As people have learned about the exhibition and an accompanying fundraiser on Nov. 9, Handley said that interest in viewing the work and participating has grown. “People are generally excited,” Handley said. “I think they appreciate the fact that the exhibition will have a certain ethnicity to it, includes some local artists and touches on religious and spiritual ideas. As a holiday, the Day of the Dead is growing in popularity across the United States and Europe.” Día de los Muertos: The Art of the Living and the Dead opens Friday, Nov. 1, and runs through Jan. 4. This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. A mariachi band, traditional Hispanic food and colorful storytelling will accentuate the Day of the Dead altars on display when the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts hosts a Day of the Dead Fiesta and Art Auction at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at The Cole Art Center at The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches. The fundraiser will benefit both The Cole Art Center and School of Art student scholarships. The art auction will feature papier maché Day of the Dead sculptures and skulls, twodimensional art such as paintings or woodcut or linocut prints in Day of the Dead themes, Day of the Dead masks and jewelry. Gabriela Miranda-Recinos and José N. Recinos, both assistant professors of modern languages at SFA, will lecture on Day of the Dead traditions during the event. The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main Street. For additional information, call 936-468-1131.

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The Entertaining Experience of Fear

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emember back to your childhood when you were lying in bed in the dark before falling to sleep, and your young body trembled as your scared eyes searched the shadows of the room in fear of the monster who had emerged from under your bed, come out from behind the closet door, or had discreetly crept in through your locked window? You were so sure they were there because you probably had been told ghost stories by your older brother, sister or favorite uncle. You may have gone out of your way to catch just a glimpse of a scary movie on TV before your parents caught you and changed the channel. Still, you had absorbed every ghoul ridden detail and then got into bed, cautiously sneaking an occasional peek over the covers prepared to witness your own demise. Eventually you fell asleep, and after surviving a bad dream or two, you awoke safely to the sunrise of the morning, tucked safely in your bed. Would you watch another scary movie or listen to another ghost story after experiencing the trauma of the previous night? Many of you would and even more intently next time. This typically is how most of us had our first introduction to fear. We experienced sleepless nights, nightmares, and fear of the dark, yet we came back for more. As Halloween approaches, my question is, “Even as adults, why do many of us like to be scared out of our wits? What is the appeal of being scared?” I once heard a lady say, “I would rather have an appendectomy with no anesthesia than watch a horror movie.” At the time, I thought the average American adult probably shared the same opinion, although probably not to that extreme, but after reading through page after page of research, I’ve found that national statistics show otherwise. Let’s look at the film industry, often the trendsetter for pop culture. When you look back to the origins of the industry and its timeless classics, there, nestled in between Gone

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with the Wind and Casablanca, you will find titles like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Curse of the Werewolf. In 2011, Paramount pictures released the low budget horror movie Paranormal Activity 3. Although the picture’s budget was less than $10 million, a very low budget in comparison to most other box office releases, this movie broke records with $54 million in sales its first weekend on the big screen. Due to the success of this film, there will be a steady stream of horror movies released over the next few years. Since the films mostly have an R rating, the audience is not just made up of teenagers, and the screams that are heard from the audience are not from children. The screams belong to adults that have paid for their tickets just to have this experience. More proof that people are lining up to be scared are the popular ghost walks that are popping up in historic cities across the nation. From Savannah on the East Coast to New Orleans all the way to Los Angeles, each Friday and Saturday evening you will find a group of paranor-

byy TTony o y Mc on M McCullough Culloug mally intrigued tourists lining up behind a tour guide to show them through the area’s haunted locations and cemeteries. There are several ghostly tours here in East Texas. Perhaps the longest running ghost tour is the Historic Jefferson Ghost Walk, started and operated by Jefferson native Jodi Breckenridge. “We do tours every Friday and Saturday evening year round.” The groups get larger in October, but there are sizeable groups each weekend year round. Even those that “aren’t believers of that sort of thing” still buy their $13 tickets and tag along. Jodi says, “Whether you believe in ghosts or not, everyone loves a good ghost story.” George Jones, owner and operator of Jericho’s Ghost Tours in Tyler, shares the same successful story. Another popular venue dishing out ample servings of Halloween horror are haunted attractions such as “spook houses” and even large scale Halloween parks. Some of these attractions are corporate owned. At one of these horror exhibits in Dallas, the patrons pay on the average of $30 each to have the daylights scared out of them.

The newest attraction in DFW will be the Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus, featuring big top Halloween entertainment, live bands, and an intricate haunted house. Reportedly, investors have dedicated millions of dollars to promote this event in hopes that attendance will be in the thousands nightly. That’s a lot of people paying good money for the thrills of fear. One of our local haunted houses is the long-running Doc Wilkes House of Horrors in Longview, owned and operated by Eugene and Laura Wilkes. Although Doc Wilkes has built a reputation for being top of his league in scares per dollar value at $13 per ticket, Laura Wilkes reports that, during the weeks before Halloween, it is not uncommon for 400-500 scare seekers to go through their facility nightly, some waiting in line an hour or more. When people line up to pay for tickets to be scared, fear can become a good business. When asked why, Laura replied, “It’s for the adrenaline rush.” My question still was, “Why do we like to be scared out of our wits? What is the appeal of being scared?” After sorting through replies from several individuals, I turned to a few psychology and medical internet sites to try to find my answer. My research concluded that Laura Wilkes had answered the question correctly - it’s the adrenaline rush. According to the Psychology Today website, when an individual faces fear, they experience a rush of adrenaline, which includes an increased heart rate and breathing, muscle tension, anxiety, and intensified focus. Why would anyone want to experience those things? For the same reason people ride roller coasters, bungee jump off towers, or sky dive. It’s the after effects that create a total experience. When your body faces the fear of falling, shares the horror of the leading lady onscreen trying to escape the psychopathic killer, or faces the monster from under your childhood bed face-to-face in a haunted house, your body produces adrenaline, and you face that rush. Once you are out of possible risk and back to your comfort zone or safe ground, your brain overrides your anxiety-ridden body and stops

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producing adrenaline. As the adrenaline is expended from your veins, your nervous system and muscles relax suddenly, feeling almost as if a stimulant had been administered and completing an emotional and physical circle. The end result is a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, and victory over personal challenges. Simply put, we enjoy the feeling of overcoming danger and feel wonderful that we are safe once again. Many publications say this can become addictive for some personality types: people who are thrill seekers, who ride the roller coaster time after time, who don’t mind almost being beheaded by the psychopath with the machete who chased them down the spook house halls. The next time you spend the night alone and are awakened by your closet door opening by itself or the sound of footsteps down the hall, just think for a moment – some people would pay $30 or more to experience this. Then imagine how relaxed you will be once you get the lights on, and it’s safe again… then jump out of the bed and hit the light switch before the thing under the bed grabs you by the ankle!

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Raina Howerton is the new executive director of the Gregg County Historical Museum by Jan Statman Raina Howerton was recently named executive director of the Gregg County Historical Museum. “I’ve always loved history,� she said, adding that she has a particular fondness for the museum’s building, its collections and its volunteers. “At the Gregg County Historical museum, our volunteer staff is the heart and soul of our daily operation,� she said. “Week after week, these hard-working and dedicated individuals offer their knowledge and hospitality to museum visitors of all ages.� Even though she was born and raised in Dallas, Raina considers herself to be an East Texas girl because her mother Connie Howerton is an East Texas native. She has happy memories of visiting relatives in the area when she was a child. When the time came to choose a college, she decided to attend LeTourneau University where she earned bachelor of arts degrees in History, English, and Political Science. During her undergraduate years, she served as an intern at the Gregg County Historical Museum. “I was so impressed with the quality of education offered by my school that I decided to return there to do my graduate work,� she said. She earned a masters of business administration degree from LeTourneau University where she was an honors graduate. Her professional experience includes working for the Upshur County government where she held a position with the Upshur County Clerk’s office. She then worked for the federal government, where she was a contact representative for the Social Security Administration’s Longview office. “I just love history, and I love this museum,� she explained. “The building itself is beautiful. The museum and its collections are beautiful. It’s a very important part of this community.� Howerton added that she felt “honored and humbled� when she was chosen to lead the museum she had long admired. She said, “The board of directors interviewed quite a few people. There were a lot of highly qualified applicants before they decided to choose me. I look forward to being a part of what they are doing here

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and making the museum known in Gregg County.� For their part, museum officials are delighted to have chosen her as executive director. After considering several applicants, they chose Ms. Howerton because of her outstanding energy and professionalism, as well as her understanding of technology. The official statement that announced Howerton’s appointment stated that, “Her considerable experience in government, management, events, and computer programs gives her the qualifications to enhance and improve the current operations of the museum.� Howerton comes to the museum during its two-phase, three million dollar “New Century Capital Campaign� designed to renovate and upgrade the facility. The first $100,000 phase of the campaign has already been completed. The second phase includes major renovations, some of which are planned to include making the third floor of the 102-yearold Everett Building accessible to the public. Howerton described the third floor area of the landmark building as being “like a time capsule that has been kept unchanged during more than a century.� Unfortunately, that area is presently closed to the public. When the third floor becomes accessible, she believes that the fine details of Victorian wood and finish, as well as tile work and carefully designed floors will help visitors gain a better understanding of the life people lived in this area in time gone by. Howerton said, “The Gregg County Historical Museum should be considered to be a perfect gem in the heart of downtown Longview. The institution and the many wonderful dedicated volunteers are an important part of the museum and of the community.� Museums offer collections of valuable artifacts. The Everett Building at 214216 N. Fredonia Street in downtown Longview is a valuable artifact in and of itself. It was originally built as the Citizens National Bank Building in 1910. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and boasts a Texas Historical Marker. The building became the Gregg County Historical Museum and was officially opened to the public on June 2, 1984. The main entrance is reached by an impressive staircase flanked by columns, which lead to double doors of paneled wood and antique glass. Beyond the doors, the handsome lobby still has the original teller’s cage that was part of Citizen’s National Bank. Looking down, visitors see the original inlaid tile floors. Looking up, they see the original, elaborate pressed tin ceiling that is ornamented with the sculptural faces of cherubs. Howerton explained that unfortunately, most of the museum is not handicap accessible at the present time. She said, “This has been “grandfathered� because of the building’s historical importance, but it is not the most desirable

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circumstance. The ability to provide handicap accessibility would be a major improvement.� She also hopes to be able to properly exhibit several of the outstanding artifacts the museum is not presently able to display. She particularly mentioned the remarkable collection of Caddo Indian artifacts, a massive antique printing press, a large weaving loom, the Arthur Northcutt Brown military collection, and many other significant and fascinating items which are now kept in storage. When the historical museum opened in 1984, its stated goal was to offer exhibits that described the history and development of Gregg County, including its growth first as a center of timber harvesting and farming, followed by railroads and later the oil industry, schools, businesses, and commerce. Exhibiting the displays that are now in storage will help to realize that goal. Howerton plans to increase the number of traveling exhibits, many of which have been displayed in the museum’s education building. The popular Sports Legends of East Texas exhibit was recently seen in that location. She wishes to make museum offices more available to the public and to expand the museum’s education program, which reaches more than four thousand third and seventh grade schoolchildren each year. She is careful to mention that the museum also promotes local tourism with its permanent and traveling exhibits. Some of the most important among these are Black History Month exhibits, the Dalton Days/Wild West Show and the Architectural Lecture Series, which brings noted architects to the community. The Cemetery Tour, in which museum volunteers dressed in authentic costume discuss the life and experiences of the pioneers who are buried in Longview’s historic cemeteries, is scheduled for October 12 . The Historic Highways exhibit is scheduled for the month of October. The exhibit will highlight the famous Route 66 and include scenes from Highway 80, which passes directly through Longview. Also important is the Historic Homes Tour, during which residents open their homes to visitors as a benefit to the organization, and two extremely popular holiday exhibits: the Living History Christmas exhibit and the Christmas Village and Model Railroad exhibit, both of which will be on display December 7 through January 4. It will be closed for the holidays. Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tues. - Fri. and noon - 4 p.m. Sat. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for senior citizens and students. For further information about the museum or to make an appointment to meet and visit with the new director Raina Howerton, please call the Gregg County Historical Museum at 903-7535840. You can visit the museum’s website at www.gregghistorical.org

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and foliage. Directing the branches includes the use of many types of wiring and pruning techniques. The roots are then carefully pruned. Upper growth control helps maintain the overall appearance once the basic shape is established. While most bonsai do best outdoors year-round, many tropical plants can live indoors provided the correct balance of light and water is provided. There are bonsai in both public and personal collections that are over 400 years old! Longview Bonsai Society members have a number of presentations that are in the 50 – 75 year range. The society will feature many of these during their fall exhibit, Thurs. through Sat., October 17 – 19, in The Artists’ Gallery at Shannon’s Beading Basket, 207 North Horaney Street. This exhibit will display 60+ trees and plantings and is free and open to the public. The hours are 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. each day and LBS members will be on hand to discuss the various bonsai and answer questions. For more information, please call 903-242-9944.

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You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd Ya can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd But ya can be happy if you’ve a mind to Written and performed by Roger Miller

This month’s song lyric goes way back to when I was in junior high school in Houston. Roger Miller was a bit of an odd duck as far as songwriting goes, which could be the reason that I identify with his music. He wasn’t really a country writer, but country singers embraced him because he sold records. He wasn’t really a pop writer either, but pop singers welcomed him for the same reason. And even though many considered him a novelty song writer because of songs like “Buffalo Herd,” “Dang Me,” “Do Whack-a-do” and “Reincarnation,” he was genuinely a great songwriter and artist. His voice and vocal ability were exceptional and unique, his melodic sense was awesome, and his lyrical depth and variety was jaw dropping. “Buffalo Herd” at first seems like a throwaway. With its references to ridiculous situations regarding things that you can’t do and ending with “but ya can be happy if you’ve a mind to,” the song seems too lighthearted. But then there’s the bridge: “All you gotta do is put your mind to it. Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it.” So, even though it seems like a carefree song, it gets to the heart of the matter and the subject of this column, which is choosing happiness in a business that requires the approval of others. Happiness is an elusive thing for me, and I suspect it is for many. That doesn’t mean I am not happy, but I am often so involved with internal dramas like writing songs, booking shows, and promoting CDs that I often forget my happiness.

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So what does this have to do with you? I suspect many of you are like me to some extent. Like me, you get wrapped up in the minutiae of career, creation and everyday life and forget to savor and enjoy the moment. I become especially aware of this when I see those around me struggling to find their place in the world. They are making, breaking and remaking their relationships with their art, friends, career, health and sometimes themselves, becoming lost in the details. Like me, they forget to look up from the to-do list and appreciate how lucky they are to alive and to be artists. I know the path can be difficult, but there are not a lot of people brave enough to pursue their passion. Thoreau was correct when he said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” As an artist, doesn’t that statement resonate with you? We all have our moments of “quiet desperation,” but we get to transform our discouragement into art. Even our darkest thoughts can be spun into art and diminished, or even dissolved. Art is a redirection of emotional and sometimes intellectual energy into creation. Mahatma Gandhi defined happiness as, “when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” It sounds like the definition of a real artist: someone who is truly and deeply in touch with their inner and outer selves. Genuine artists have integrity; they are consistent in their thoughts, words and deeds. Isn’t that what we all desire in the end – to be our true self without apology or compromise?

Remember what Roger said, “All Actually, until I started writing you gotta do is put your mind to it. this particular column, I never really Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do thought much about the real definition it, it.” Tenuous and vague as that adof happiness. When I found Gandhi’s vice is, it is the best I can give. I know quote in my research, I realized I had that finding your happiness sweet spot hit pay dirt. I learned how to deteris important to your physical, emomine and even measure happiness for tional and artistic life and it is certainly myself. I had always viewed “happy” worth the effort. Besides, you can’t as a weird little word with no real roller skate in a buffalo herd, so what meaning or at least very little to do else do you have to do? with real life. As always, thanks for reading, I have always been driven and foand if you have comments, suggescused – goal oriented. But I find that tions or criticisms about this or any of reaching a sought-after goal almost my columns, feel free to send them to never brings me happiness or even me: randy@brownrandy.com. If you mild satisfaction. Instead, I spend my ever simply get curious about what the time mentally debriefing myself, exheck this rambling old man does, go to amining my progress and determining www.brownrandy.com/music. Listen how I could have done better. I have to a few songs and let me know what finally realized that happiness and satyou think. See you next issue. isfaction do not lie in achieving goals, but rather it lies in the pursuit of the goal. The goal itself is only a landI know the path can be mark to reach and forget as I head forward to yet difficult, but there are not a lot another goal. I encourage you to of people brave enough to honestly look at yourself and your work and find pursue their passion. your personal path to happiness. Latch on to it, and never let go. Let Randy Brown is retired from a real it become your mantra for life and job, though he still manages to funccreation. To be perfectly honest, I am tion as a singer/songwriter living in not sure exactly what I have revealed East Texas and has been involved with about happiness and how to achieve many sides of the music business over it. This happens to me a lot these days. the years, from being a sideman, a I talk or think about something almost sound man, touring songwriter, operato exhaustion, and then realize I am tor of a venue, and a recording studio no closer to uncovering the secret than owner/engineer. He remains a shining I was when I started. So, I will end like example of the old adage that “those I started, with the bridge lyric from who can, do, and those who can’t this month’s song. write columns.”

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Piney Woods Live magazine was given the opportunity to be included in the the Second Annual Ink Life Tour held Aug. 23-25, thanks to Regan St. Peter, the event’s guru. The three day event hosted over 200 of the nation’s top tattoo artists, including several local talents. Film crews from top television stations were there, as well as performances by the Texas Hippie Coalition and L.A. Guns. It was a special event. Coincidentally, since the Day of the Dead is featured in this month’s magazine, I actually had a Day of the Dead experience at the Ink Life Tour. It was day two of the event. The whole weekend I was determined that I would not let myself be tempted to get another tattoo. But never say never. I was walking around scoping out the talent, talking to people, taking pictures and just being my normal publicist self. It was around 1 p.m., and I returned to the Piney Woods Live booth. As I was talking with one of my co-workers, Joni Guess, and her daughter Aundrea Guess, an image on a table in a booth directly behind ours caught my immediate attention. It was a sugar skull.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Mexico and was introduced to sugar skulls. They are beautiful and colorful. I did some research, and discovered that the meaning behind sugar skulls helped me deal with death in a whole new light. At the time, I had no way of knowing that years later my precious grandfather would pass away from a massive heart attack. I always wanted to get a tattoo in remembrance of him, and the sugar skull seemed perfect to help me honor his memory. It would allow me to celebrate his life and legacy. How can I walk around for two days and not even notice this drawing laying before me on a table directly behind our booth? The idea to get the tattoo hit like a ton of bricks. I spoke with the artist, Stephen Thompson, with Art with Heart Ink from Aurora, Co. We edited the image, and he drew up a stencil. It was as if I was meant to find this artist from miles away to make my dreams of a memorial for my grandfather come true.

Fifteen minutes later, I am on a black reclining chair, and the artwork has begun. The pain was actually somewhat bearable. Yes, it did feel like several bee stings at first, but after the initial pain subsided, I could feel a peace come over me. I felt like I was in the last phase in the mourning of my granddad. Two and a half hours later, the masterpiece was completed on my left calf and beautiful in color and detail. Stephen included my favorite colors, teal and pink, and added flowers and even a diamond in the center of one of the flowers. It was absolutely perfect and wonderful. The different elements of the tattoo were symbolic to me and is a piece of walking artwork. Tattoos and skulls typically have a bad connotation and reputation, but they go beyond skin deep. They are a means of self expression and can help people cope with emotional obstacles that aren’t always apparent. The Ink Life Tour was a huge success, and I feel very thankful that Piney Woods Live magazine got to be a part of this great event.

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Sometimes you meet someone that just seems out of place in our fast paced, technologically advanced, modern society – someone that, if you looked deep enough into their eyes, you might actually see the reflection of a simpler time when things were much less complicated. Steve Hartz, owner of the General Mercantile and Oldtime String Shop at 216 East Pillar Street in Nacogdoches, is one of those people. If Steve were given the chance to board a train that would take him back in time 100 years, I think he would only need a moment to take his wife Sheryl by the hand, grab one of the custom banjos he has built and anxiously head for the open seat by the window of the passenger car. Steve lives his life today a lot like they did in the early days of Nacogdoches. Many say that when you step through the door of the General Mercantile and Oldtime String Shop, it feels more like you are entering a museum than an actual business. But here the pot bellied stove isn’t just for looks, it actually provides heat during colder weather. As Steve explained, “There are general stores in many of the old towns, but they are franchises. They are not real.” Steve and his store are very real. You won’t find reproduced products that take you back to when you were kid, but you will find a vintage musical instrument, and a book of music history complete with CD soundtrack, and if you need to use the phone, you’ll do so on an early 1900s crank phone, not something cordless or cellular. Today, when we see a banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and a fiddle together, we usually think bluegrass, which was Steve’s favorite when he was a young man. But he is quick to point out that the “old timey” music he plays today is not bluegrass. Bluegrass music is trademarked by the “picking” of the strings, such as with a five string banjo. It was a regional genre that spread from the Appalachian Mountains in the late 1800s. The

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music Steve Hartz plays dates back historically before Appalachian music became widespread. Instead of the picking of the strings on the banjo, the technique was more of a hammer strum, which was historically common in American popular music. The songs of Stephen Foster, such as “Oh Susanna” or “Camptown Races” are good examples. The music was simple and flowing so that anyone could hum or sing along. In the 1970s, Steve started building traditional type banjos patterned after those built before 1900. As he became known for his instrument building skills, many musicians started bringing him instruments for repair. Steve opened a shop upstairs in a building across the street from his current location in 1977. There he built banjos, did repair work, sold vintage instruments, and gave lessons. His business grew, and he eventually bought the historic building across Pillar Street, which had been the home of one the men who had signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Steve then expanded his shop to include an old time general store. The Oldtime String Shop carries their own brand of strings. Steve explains, “They are a nickel wound string more suited to acoustic instruments in the outdoor climate of East Texas.” This is a great product for musicians that perform outside or prefer an open window and a fan over air conditioning. Steve is nationally know for his historic music books. He writes about the history of music from over a century ago. These books are illustrated with Steve’s original artwork and come with an audio CD that includes songs of the time and some of his original music that fits that style. The music kept alive by The Oldtime String Shop can be heard live outside of the General Mercantile building. Steve and Sheryl Hartz perform with the Attoyac Valley String Ensemble, which consists of a fiddle, mandolin, guitar, cello, bouzouki (similar to a mandolin with

an extended neck), and a banjo. The group performs at weddings, parties, and special occasions. You can also catch performances of the Old Time Medicine Show, complete with music and actors pitching the “healall bottles of fire water.” It is interesting that music that was historically part of everyday life, when played today, seems so unique; what once was so common in America is now a novelty. But that just doesn’t really matter to Steve Hartz – it’s just business as usual. If you would like to visit Steve’s Oldtime String Shop & General Mercantile, it is highly recommended that you make the trip to Nacogdoches on a Saturday afternoon. The Saturday afternoon jam session has been a tradition for 35 years as musicians throughout East Texas gather around the old pot bellied stove on cooler days to share in the music of days gone by. Everyone’s welcome, so grab your fiddle or grab the family and head out to the musical museum of real life at 216 East Pillar Street. To view their website, go to www.mysteryridge.com and click on General Mercantile and Oldtime String Shop.

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A Book Review by Jan Statman

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frustrate me in other cookbooks,� she said. “I always put the cooking time and nd the size of the pan where they should be, right up there next to the name of the recipe. That way you know exactly which pan or casserole dish you are going to have to dig out of the cabinet. More than that, all the inin gredients are printed in bold print right at the start of the recipe so you know which things you ought to have in the pantry before you begin. And most importantly, people tell me the ingredients are always the kind of items you might have on hand in your kitchen, not the exotic spices and delicacies you have to write off to far away, strange places to get.�

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raphies with comments about whose recipe is being prepared, how that recipe came about, and what was going on in the author’s life when she first prepared it. We follow her from her busy life of raising her four children to her days at the Atrium restaurant. We share the shocking, sudden loss of her first husband Ken Richardson. We learn how she re-connected with childhood friend Joe McClellan and how they married and moved to the Rio Grande Valley for many years before returning home to East Texas. We learn how she happened to become the food columnist who writes the popular weekly “From My Kitchen� column for the Longview News Journal. Since she once enjoyed reading locally written newspaper food columns when she lived in the Houston area, she wondered why there was no homegrown East Texas food column in Longview. She picked up her telephone and called Ellie Hopkins, who was editor of the Longview News Journal at that time. When she asked why the paper didn’t have a local food column, he told her there was no one available to write it and asked if she would like to do it. She told him she was not a journalist, her degree was in music, and her only homemaking course had been the “bride’s course� she took at Baylor University. He suggested she write a food column and bring it to him. She sat down at her typewriter, and two days later she was surprised to see her first food column appear in print on the same page as the grocery ads on Thursday morning. She has been writing the week-

ly food column ever since. She said, “I will be eternally thankful to the dear man, Ellie Hopkins, who had faith in me and who encouraged me through the years.� Both cookbooks are specific about describing the size of the container to be used. They tell the cook whether the recipe should be prepared covered or uncovered, whether canned goods should be drained or undrained, and whether butter or margarine should be used to best advantage. The author insists that the idea for writing From My Kitchen and From My Kitchen Once More! came about because she had to clean up her own kitchen. In those days, the best recipes were collected by visiting with the ladies at the beauty shop or the PTA. Like most good cooks, Barbara’s kitchen had shoe boxes and cabinet drawers filled to overflowing with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, scraps of paper handwritten by those ladies at the beauty shop or the PTA, and favorite recipes tucked here and there where she had to search for them to find them. “I wanted to stop having to spend more time looking for a recipe than cooking that recipe,� she said. She believes her interest in cooking is largely inherited because she comes from a family where all the women cooked, except for the good-looking aunt who worked at a paying job and didn’t have to do that sort of thing. But even that goodlooking aunt enjoyed eating good food as much as everyone else. Her mother was an excellent cook, and her grandmother was the best cook in the group. It was common in those days for a grandmother

to live with her children and their families. Barbara’s grandmother always came to live with the family that had the youngest child. Since Barbara was the youngest child until a cousin came along when she was ten years old, she had a good time following her grandmother around the kitchen. Since everybody in her family liked to cook, Barbara thought it was a good idea for herself. Unfortunately, her first attempt in the kitchen did not turn out well. Her father died when she was only eight years old, which meant her mother had to spend much of her time away from home. One afternoon when her mother was away, Barbara told the family’s outdoor helper, a gentleman named “Booker,� that she wanted to bake a cake. He thought that was a fine idea, and he let her get the ingredients together. Unfortunately, nobody had ever told her to turn the mixer off before she raised the beaters. She said, “That cake batter was still on the kitchen ceiling many years later when they tore the house down!� That particular recipe is not included in either cookbook. Chapters in both books provide for all the staples. From My Kitchen has a chapter for Appetizers, Breads, Soups and Salads, Main Dish Casseroles, Meats and Seafood, Vegetables, and Desserts. It also has a Quick and Easy section in which the recipes really are as quick as they are easy. There is a Microwave Cooking section that covers everything from taco casserole to pralines, and the most amazing Catch-All section for all those delights not fitting into any of the other categories. The book also includes delightful line drawings by Betty Lyn Collier.

From my Kitchen Once More! has all the reasonable chapters for staples, but it is expanded to include a chapter on Vegetarian Main Dishes to accommodate vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. There is also a section on Quantity Cooking for those occasions when recipes must be expanded to feed a large crowd, which includes such offerings as Mexican Hot Sauce by the Gallon and Vegetable Beef Soup for Fifty. This is followed by a chapter that is simply called “HELP!!!� It not only has a table of equivalent weights and measures and microwave tips, it has a section of commonly asked and answered cooking questions. Why does piecrust get tough during baking? Why does brewed tea cloud? Is there a perfect way to boil eggs? And how can I clean silver? The author hesitated to answer when she was asked which were her favorite recipes among the many recipes in her books. However, she did say, “I forgot to put Nancy Wright’s corn biscuits in the first book so I had to write a second book.� Look for it on page 203. While you’re at it, you can find the Artichoke Dip on page 7 of the first book. The Easy Boeuf Bourguignon, simplified to Easy Beef Burgundy because that’s what it really is, can be found on page 67 of the second book. The amazing Pineapple Cake is on page 11 of the first book. The Apricot Cream Pie is on page 180 of the second book. From My Kitchen and From my Kitchen Once More! are available at Louis Morgan Drugs #4, Barron’s, and the Bargain Box. For more information, contact the author at bayrm12@gmail.com

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Halloween is prime time for ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. But it is also a time for fantasy and imagination running wild. It is a time for fairy tales. “Rapunzel! Rapunzel, Let down your great golden Art.” Art? What do you mean Art? What kind of fairy tale is this anyhow? Who exactly is that up there in that ivory tower? Actually, that would be me, or at least that would be me if I could get away with it. Face it, what most artists would really like to have, deep down where we would never admit it, would be a nice, comfortable ivory tower hidden somewhere in the woods where we could do our work in peace and quiet. While we’re at it, why not toss in a goodsized moat, one without crocodiles so we could take a morning swim, and oh yes, how about a fire breathing dragon? It’s always a good idea to have a dragon. If we are going to have a dragon, we definitely want a fire-breathing dragon because they are the best kind. The dragon, of course, would have to be carefully trained to check the credentials of visiting artists, as well as the Good Witch of the East and whichever generous leprechaun was appointed to serve as art agent. Maybe a card reader would work? Maybe we could have a fire-breathing dragon with a cell phone? That way the dragon at the moat would let the agent at the wall visit the tower in the woods without breathing fire and smoke, or possibly eating him alive. Art agents, even make-believe art agents, usually do not care to be eaten alive, or even slightly singed. I’m pretty sure they would never exhibit any art created by artists who keep ill-mannered dragons. The leprechaun would appear on a more or less regular

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schedule. I could toss the paintings down to him from my tower studio, or he could harvest the armloads of paintings I’d hang around in the pine trees, or maybe even those I’d abandoned Cezanne-like in the pasture. He would carry them away to happy homes, and it would never be necessary for me to worry about them or carry them from one museum to another, or from one gallery to another, or from one art show to another, because I often start to feel like I am an art moving service instead of a working artist. I would never have to care for them, or store them, or catalog them, or make sure they were named, framed, and hung in a clean well-lit place. The problem is that completed paintings represent time gone past. They are emotions where the books have been sealed. They are visions that are already viewed. They are not as challenging as the pure clean canvas that is sitting bare and unpainted in the studio or the work that is still half finished on the easel. These are the images of an artist’s today and tomorrow, while the finished paintings are mirrors of the artist’s yesterday. The hope is they will find new homes where they become the art collector’s joy for every day. In exchange for collecting and selling these creative changelings, the leprechaun would leave me a nice pot of gold of appropriate dimensions. Possibly also a couple of thick prime ribs and a sack of homegrown tomatoes? What could be better than life in that fabled ivory tower? It would have perfect north light. The artist who hates giving lectures would never be forced to open his mouth. The artist who dislikes teaching would never have to show anybody how to do anything. The artist who doesn’t like corresponding would never have to spend time exchanging letters and phone calls with faceless, distant gallery representatives who have hard to pronounce names. As for me, I would never have to hammer another nail into another crate or wrestle those crates into the big blue van or ship heavy shipments or attend uncomfortable openings or pose for photographs by unkind photographers who add ten pounds per photo. I would never have to figure out what to say to the pretty, young wives of wealthy men. Most of all, I would never have to explain why I do whatever it is I do or what I mean by it when I do it. I would never have to be polite to anybody who asks whether hot pink is a personal symbol of innate mysticism or is it simply a color I happen to like. I would never have to do anything but make art.

The only trouble is that life in that ivory tower would be horribly lonesome. A fire-breathing dragon could be fun for awhile, but its conversation would be mighty limited. Pretty soon the artist who teaches would discover she misses the give and take of the teaching experience. Her enthusiasm for her work is contagious. A teaching artist is forced to share her own understandings. Sharing brings understandings into focus. By doing this, her own reality gives a growing life to her work. The artist who gives lectures would realize that his talks are essential to his own understanding of life. Those faceless, distant gallery representatives with the hard to pronounce names become friends with actual faces once the exhibits are arranged and the pictures are packed and the artist has traveled out to meet them. Those pretty wives of wealthy men often work up such an honest interest in the artwork they see that they eventually become serious and thoughtful art collectors. The ritual of the one-artist show, like all human rituals, was invented to fill a need. When all the “show business” of the art business is swept aside, the one-man show really does offer serious insight into what a particular artist is doing at a particular time. More important, it gives the artist the chance to remove the work from the familiar studio and look at it in a different place. The artist can stand in a room full of the unvarnished self and see what the art is doing right now and why it is doing what it is doing. Where are its strengths? Where are its weaknesses, its satisfactions and its directions? And if you really must know, I happen to put a bit of hot pink somewhere in every painting because when I was a child, my mother always dressed me in tailored and respectable shades of blue. Pale blue for spring and summer, navy blue for fall and winter. My friends wore pretty pink, but all I ever got was blue. I’m still rebelling. That is all the aesthetic symbolism and mysticism there is to that. More important, life in the ivory tower would be artistically unlivable. With nothing to stimulate the senses there would be no connection with reality and no basic human experience. You can’t create in a vacuum. Whether the viewers like the art or not, whether they think they “understand” the art or not, art has to function as a real part of real life, and life is with people. So lets dispense with the dragon. Send the leprechaun away to hide his pot of gold. Pull the stopper in the moat. Let down the drawbridge, and get on with the art. Jan Statman’s paintings are owned by museums in Europe and by public and private collections across the USA. She is author of several books and is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, and various other professional publications.

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by Tony McCullough Just a few miles north of Longview on Highway 259 nestled in the beautiful woods located between Diana and Ore City, you will find Thomas Falls Zipline Challenge Course. Passing by the small gravel paved entrance road, one would never imagine the beautiful trails, the outdoor facilities for parties, group picnics and weddings, or the challenging zip line course that lies hidden just over the hill. Thomas Falls is the creation of East Texan Stan Thomas. Several years ago, he and his wife purchased the property, which was formerly home of an old sawmill, with the intentions of developing and opening a nine hole golf course that would weave its way through the rolling hills and valleys of the property. But Stan’s vision soon focused on something larger scale. The current goal is to develop the largest non-amusement ride, outdoor theme park in East Texas, featuring the tallest waterfall in the state of Texas, Thomas Falls. Stan’s first phase of development for Thomas Falls is one of the most exhilarating and challenging zip line courses in the state, featuring eight zip lines, suitable for all ages. To set up the course, a team of professionals were brought in to determine the appropriate angles for the safety of zip line riders - most zip line injuries result in private lines being set at angles too steep. As the lines were set, there were a series of ongoing tests to determine proper tension of lines. Only the best equipment was purchased and followed by appropriate training. “It’s all about safety.” The result: an adrenaline rushing, suspended, high speed ride through beautiful oak and pine treetops, over two ponds on the property, over the covered picnic and party pavilion, above the covered bridge and by spring 2014, off the cliff of what will be the tallest waterfall in the state. Zip line riders must be at least 4’2” tall with the average weight limits from 70 to 275 pounds, although weight exceptions can be made. Stan said his eldest rider was an 81 year old lady, who told him she was “there because zip lining was on her bucket list.”

Before setting out for two or more hours of thrills, the well-trained professional guides of Thomas Falls give every single rider a training course on a short zip line that barely allows their feet to clear the ground. Once the guides feel everyone can proceed safely, a tractor drawn wagon takes the group through the valley, across the covered bridge and up the hill atop “the falls” where the adventure begins over what is possibly one the prettiest natural settings in East Texas. “The most fun you’ll ever have in zip lining is going through the course with a group of friends,” says one of the Thomas Falls guides. “It’s all about having safe fun, doing things you don’t get to do in just everyday life. The adrenaline’s rushing, everyone’s smiling and ready to go again. It’s great.” Special rates are offered for groups, organizations and birthday parties. It’s a great outing for anything from a small group of friends to a school or office fieldtrip. In addition to some of the highest rated zip lines in the state, Thomas Falls also plans to offer a Halloween attraction for the month of October with the Flying Zombie - Headless Horseman production. Visitors to the Halloween park will venture down the haunted trails to the valley of the ponds and covered bridge, where they will be caught in the middle of a battle between the headless horseman and flying zombies over possession of the horseman’s lost head. “It should be exciting Halloween fun for the whole family”. Thomas Falls is also available for weddings, private parties, company or group picnics, and may be the future location for concerts or festivals. A large pavilion complete with tables

has just been completed with restroom/ changing rooms close by and a concession area literally built into the hillside. Thomas points out the island within the large pond (not a true island; it can be walked onto without a boat or bridge). It is a picturesque setting for a wedding with a covered bridge in the background. He is also considering future concerts in the crater type valley. In addition, Thomas plans to have a Christmas attraction at the park featuring Santa and his reindeer flying in and out over the falls, and it is probable that in the future, their will be either state or national zip line competitions on the zip line challenge course. Thomas Falls has a lot to offer East Texas for outdoor entertainment; everything from peaceful settings to holiday settings to heart pounding high speed zip line thrills. It’s the type of entertainment venue that will continue to grow and develop. If you’d like to experience East Texas from the tree tops, would just like a tour of the park, or need more information on holiday attractions, give them a call at 903-9686924 or find them online at www.ziptf. com.

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EVENTS FINE ART EXHIBITIONS American Legacy: Our National Parks at Michelson Museum Of Art, through Oct. 6. Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945 at Tyler Museum of Art, through Oct. 20. Tejano: Contemporary Latin American Artists of Texas, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, through Oct. 26. International Portrait Photography Exhibition, SFA Griffith Gallery, Nacogdoches, through Oct. 31. Women in the Arts, Winnsboro Center for the Arts, through Nov. 3. Earth, Wind & Fire, Marshall Visual Art Center, Oct. 3 through 31. Winn Morton: Festivals, Pageants & Follies, Tyler Museum of Art, Oct. 6 through Dec. 1. Lone Star, SFA’s The Downstage Theatre, Nacogdoches. LIVE THEATER Pride and Prejudice, East Texas Baptist University. Performances Oct. 3 through Oct. 8. Our Town, Jean Browne Theatre, Tyler Junior College. Performances Oct. 3 through Oct. 13. Dead Man’s Cell Phone, SFA’s Turner Auditorium, Nacogdoches. Performances Oct. 9-12. Red Velvet Cake Wars, Texas Theatre, Palestine. Performances Oct. 4-13. Beauty and the Beast, S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center, Performances Oct. 5-6. FESTIVALS Oct.5- Medieval Wine Faire, Downtown Jefferson Oct.5- Jefferson Fly In and Open House, Cypress River Airport 24F Oct.5- Downtown LIVE! at 5, Heritage Plaza, Longview. Fridays, weekly through Oct. 25. Oct.12- Marshall Main Street Second Saturday Oct.12- Festival on the Square, Downtown Tyler Square Oct.12- 13- Fireant Festival 2013, Marshall Oct. 16-19 - East Texas Yamboree, Gilmer Oct. 18-19- Marion County Fair, Jefferson Oct. 19 - 2013 Multicultural Festival, Maude Cobb Exhibit Building, Longview Oct.19-20- Edom Festival of the Arts, Edom

Oct. 24-26- Harvest Festival and Livestock Show, Maude Cobb Agricultural Pavilion, Longview Oct.25-26- Fall Feral Hog Festival, Ben Wheeler Oct.26- Hot Pepper Festival, Palestine Main Street District FILM Oct.3- Rosemary’s Baby at Liberty Hall, Tyler Oct.5- Movie Matinees for Teens at Tyler Public Library Oct.5- Iron Man 3 at Heritage Plaza, Longview Oct.10- The Exorcist at Liberty Hall Oct.12- The Giant Mechanical Man at The Old Firehouse, Edom Oct.12- Radio at Bergfeld Park Ampitheater, Tyler Oct.17- Alien at Liberty Hall Oct.19- Splat the Cat at Liberty Hall Oct.24- The Thing at Liberty Hall Oct.31- Halloween at Liberty Hall COMEDY Oct.5- Girls Night Out with Monique Marvez, 8:00 p.m., Liberty Hall, Tyler Oct.28- Kinky Friedman’s Texas Liberation Tour, 7:30 p.m., at Crossroads Music Company, Winnsboro MUSIC Oct.5- Brad Davis Guitar Clinic, 1 p.m., Crossroads Music Company, Winnsboro. Concert follows at 7:30. Oct.12- Longview Symphony Concert Series, Classic Movies and Spooky Tunes, with Guest Conductor Dr. James Snowden, 7:00 p.m., S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center

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