All photos and very short story by Mary Jane Farmer — Click on the link below for all photos. October 21, 2016, brought together five blues bands at the premier live music venue of Grayson County (Texas) — Loose Wheels Texas. Along with the packed house and great music, there was a raffle to benefit […]
Short story and pix (click on link at the end of this story) by Mary Jane Farmer For more information on Big Gus’ songwriting style(s), pick up the January issue of Buddy Magazine. Big Gus & Swampadelic have been around now about a year, in this incarnation, and yet none of the musicians are […]
Story and pictures by Mary Jane Farmer Friday night (2/10/12), the band Swampadelic opened the show at Loose Wheels Texas, in Denison, for the capacity crowd there also to see Marcia Ball. Big Gus Samuelson leads Swampadelic, a band that blends horns with fiddles and drums with bass, along with Gus’s lead guitar work and […]
National Night Out -Tuesday, October 3 – UPDATED 10/1
Story and photos (from past years) by Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News In this, the 40th anniversary year of the establishment of National Night Out, Van Alstyne Police are hosting its yearly community gathering from 6-8 p.m. this Tuesday, Oct. 3. The full event will be held at the Central Social District […]
Construction to Begin on New City Park
Story by Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News. Photos by Paige Boatman The City of Van Alstyne will soon have a sixth city park for its residents and visitors to use for their enjoyment.Monday (September 25), city and business leaders were joined by residents to break the ground for the Eula Umphress-Robert […]
TxDOT Seeks Input on US 82 Texas Corridor Study
Highway spans all of Texas from Arkansas to New Mexico Press Release from Texas Department of Transportation, Sept. 13, 2023 PARIS, Texas – The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is working to shape the future for one of the most important highways in the Paris area (Grayson County is in this Paris, Texas area), and […]
“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.
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. […]
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 […]
Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!
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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