Category: MJ’s Story/ Blog

“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.

“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.

| May 29, 2023 | Reply

Texas Nexus / Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. […]

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Roy Head & The Traits

Roy Head & The Traits

| February 25, 2022 | Reply

This is a feature I wrote in 2007 and, crazily, found it on my My Space somehow. It also was printed on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s Website of the same name. Roy Head was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that year. I am excited to be able to include it now here […]

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Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!

Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!

| October 3, 2021

Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, Blog style, not reporting style. More photos on link at bottom, and more will be added on future Sunday drives, so please feel free to check back throughout October and November. Sundays are made for driving around, slowly, and looking at things one misses when moving so fast. […]

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Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination

Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination

| October 21, 2018 | Reply

C\             Click here, on this link, to see a few more of my “challenge” photos. No. 2 — Photography requires imagination Each year, lately, I have gone on my own photographic journey, calling it my “Challenge.” I’ll pick a topic and do what I can to photograph items, people, […]

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Photography is… No. 1-Immortality

Photography is… No. 1-Immortality

| October 17, 2018 | Reply

First in a series about photography and why I (Mary Jane Farmer) love it so much. Some of this is ‘borrowed’ from another source, most  is uniquely my own. Photography creates immortality — Every Thanksgiving, my family is at my house. It’s tradition. The grandkids take out the old photo albums and go through them, again […]

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