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Holiday
Trail of Lights by Bob Bowman
Visit Kilgore, Marshall and Jefferson
in East Texas
and Natchitoches and Shreveport in LouisianaHoliday
Day Trips by Bob Bowman
A list of places to spend the holidays in
East Texas:
Marshall - You can
light up your life at Marshall where the downtown area is ablaze with a a lighting
spectacular that includes 3,000 miles of string lighting, 2.5 million bulbs, and
8,000 manhours of volunteer work. It is the nation¹s largest concentrated Christmas
lighting display.
Tyler
- Another Christmas lighting display is in Tyler, where the Municipal Rose Garden
comes alive each December with a Winter Lights Festival. Visitors can stroll through
a series of larger-than-life illuminated sculptures of holiday figures and a 14-acre
garden of lights.
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Rudolph
the red-nosed pumping unit by Bob Bowman
If you drive through Lufkin
during the holidays, be sure to take notice of one of East Texas’ most unusual
Christmas decorations...
"The
Grand Old Lady On The Square." Lavaca County Courthouse by Murray Montgomery
Hallettsville, Texas.Galveston
Jefferson
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Posadas by Maggie Van Ostrand
Not that the commercialization of Christmas
has totally taken over ... Las Posadas begins on December 16th and continues each
night through Christmas eve. ... The
Christmas Flower by Maggie Van Ostrand
Once upon a time in Mexico,
a little boy was walking to church on Christmas Eve. He wanted to see the Nativity
scene. He thought hard about a gift to bring the Christ child, but had no money
to buy one.... The
Poinsettia by
Archie P. McDonald
Every Christmas your house and mine brightens with the
seasonal introduction of the poinsettia plant with its red and green leaves and
tiny yellow blooms. Perhaps you would like to know how such came to be.
McDade
Hanging by Mike
Cox
While not quite on the level of "A Christmas Carol," "The Miracle on
42nd Street," or "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," the story of the McDade Christmas
clean up has become one of Texas' more frequently told Yuletide tales. Bloody
Christmas by
C. F. Eckhardt
The Murder Of LaSalle County Sheriff Charles B. McKinney The
Day Eastland Texas hanged Santa Claus
by John Troesser
"... And to think that it happened on Mulberry Street!"The
Night the Posse Chased Santa
by Maggie Van Ostrand
On Christmas Eve, a church in Eastland was filled and
as jolly Saint .... The notorious Christmas bank robbery ended as all criminal
acts should end ... |
Talking To
Mom by David Knape 12-30-12Lame
Christmas Gifts: It Is Harder to Receive Than to Give by Maggie Van Ostrand
12-30-12Snow
Dome by David Knape 12-30-12Christmas
Lights by David Knape 12-23-12Christmas
Time in 1944 by Lois Zook Wauson 12-21-12Christmas
Moon by David Knape 12-17-12“Silent
Night” Revealed a Lot about the Man by Bill Cherry 12-10-12
It
was in the days when the homeless and bums were classified by the law as vagrants...Is
Santa Legal In Arizona? by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-7-12
Santa,
a cheerful, chubby, bespectacled fellow in red, appears each year to distribute
toys once created in his North Pole workshop, and recently outsourced to Mexico...For
Christmas We Gather by David Knape 12-6-12Big
Tex: Son of Santa
by Mike Cox 10-24-12Joyous
Occasion Taught an Unexpected Lesson by Bill Cherry 10-12-12
"Sometimes
evidence proves our suppositions of our friends’ well-beings are wrong... What
we do to address it goes a long way in defining for us who we really are."Country
Living in the Mid-1900’s by Bruce Martin 2-23-12
For
one Christmas trip, I was bundled in blankets in the back of Dad’s ’52 Chevy pick-up
truck... Texas’
Oldest Bakery Ships Thousands of Pounds of Holiday Desserts by Dana Goolsby
12-24-10
The oldest bakery in Texas has been busy all year preparing
for their busiest season of the year. The holiday season rush begins during the
hot East Texas summer months for Eilenberger’s Bakery, located in historic downtown
Palestine.
Christmas
is what we choose to make it
by Britt Towery
12-24-10
As
you read this it is Christmas Eve. Some are glad the whole exciting season is
almost over, when, in truth, it has actually just begun.Christmas
Dinner by Mike Cox 12-23-10
In the letter the Galveston
News published on Dec. 21, 1893, the former ranger A. J. Sowell expanded on an
incident he had only mentioned briefly in his 1884 book “Rangers and Pioneers
of Texas.” Christmas
Shopping by Maggie
Van Ostrand 12-20-10
Christmas
shopping for me will always be the once-upon-a-time of memory: walking on Fifth
Avenue — it's probably snowing, windows decorated like the fairy tales of childhood...
Ducky Wucky Was Santa to Crazy
Frank, Pee Wee, Dirty Gertie and the Rest by Bill Cherry
12-15-10
Christie
“The Beachcomber” Mitchell told me this story almost fifty years ago. It happened
one Christmas Eve about 1956, just after the War... The
Art of Re-Gifting by Maggie Van Ostrand
Every time my kids ask what I want
for Christmas, I now tell them "nothing." Last year, I told them "Nothing I have
to dust," but that didn't work and I got a bunch of nice presents I have to dust...
Christmas
Shooting by Mike Cox
Many Texas families have their particular Christmas
traditions, but the way the Hornsby clan used to observe the holiday may just
take the fruitcake... Christmas
Day in History by Britt Towery
Historic Events on Christmas DayGood
Books Are Great Christmas Gifts by Britt Towery
There is no writer more
linked to Christmas (not counting the New Testament writers), than the prolific
19th century author, Charles Dickens...Every
Year at Christmas Time I Miss My Friend, Mel Torme
by Bill Cherry
I'm never sure exactly when it’s going to happen, but every
year at sometime during the Christmas season I realize how much I really miss
my friend, jazz singer Mel Torme...The
Crookedest Christmas Tree by Maggie Van Ostrand
There's
something obscene about spending so much money at Christmastime. It’s not like
we’re the Three Wise Men hiking across the desert to gift the baby Jesus. I don’t
even know what frankincense is, let alone myrrh. So let’s get down to the most
important symbol of all: the Christmas tree itself... Burl
Ives and Santa by Peary Perry
Last week a friend of mine had to opt out
of playing Santa at a local church so he conned me into going in his place.
Belle
Christmas by Mike Cox
No matter how she came to be called Belle Christmas,
she had a reputation as a local character long before someone dreamed up the “Keep
Austin Weird” bumper sticker... Old
But Odd Gift Ideas by Mike Cox
The December 1911 issue of a long-forgotten
but fun-to-read iconoclastic monthly called K. Lamity’s Harpoon offered a full-page
ad from a Uvalde taxidermist with some unusual gift items for sale that some modern
readers will probably wish were still available today...
Christmas Trees
in the Oil Patch by N. Ray Maxie
"Growing older, I learned that there
was a “forever” Christmas tree a short distance from our house. Everyday looking
out my bedroom window I could see the tree and it sure did not look like the holiday
tree I had become accustomed to.."How
was your Christmas by Peary Perry
Every year most of us will answer that
annual question of “How was your Christmas” with the same old refrain of…”Oh,
it was the best ever….it was wonderful.” Now, a lot of us are lying through our
teeth since Christmas isn’t always wonderful and in a lot of cases it isn’t any
fun... Slick
the Shoeshine Man, Sam Maceo and Christmas Eve 1949 by Bill Cherry
A Galveston
Christmas story.A
Blue Christmas by Maggie Van Ostrand
In the vast
fellowship of Christendom, December 25th is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ
by attending church, singing carols, and watching "It's A Wonderful Life." The
Christmas season is an occasion for tree-trimming and the giving of gifts to loved
ones -- gifts once symbolic, now spendaholic. Holly
Isn’t Just For Christmas Anymore by N. Ray Maxie
A visit to AlpineThe
Truth About Rudolph
by Maggie Van Ostrand
Each reindeer can pull up to twice its own weight,
making it an ideal animal for pulling a sleigh loaded down with Christmas gifts
Christmas
Past by Maggie Van
Ostrand
Want to have a wonderful Christmas without fighting traffic, battling
mall moms, or spending any money whatsoever? It can be done, trust me. The best
Christmas in my family was a broke one. I had lost everything in a fire just two
weeks before Christmas... Christmas
Shopping by Maggie Van Ostrand. It's
a Wonderful Life
by Murray MontgomeryChrist
at Christmas Time by Peary PerryChristmas
Gifts I Can't Use by Peary Perry. A
Wonderful Time of the Year by Peary PerryMerry
PC Christmas by Peary PerrySurrendering
to the Holidays by Peary PerryThe
Spirit of Christmas by Jeanne MoseleyThe
True Meaning of Auld Lang Syne by Gael Montana
In the deepest interest
of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ there comes a book into our midst that bears that ‘Required
Reading’ stamp for any human being trying to get along with other human beings
in this day and age... Geography
Lesson by Bob Bowman
Around Christmas time, visitors are surprised that
we have two Bethlehems...Sadie’s
Christmas Angel by Kathleene S. Baker
Sadie of Corpus Christi: sometimes
it takes a dog to bring out the best in humans.
Remembering Christmas
by Louise George
Christmas in the Texas Panhandle
Christmas Ornament Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
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