Category: Features

Honky Tonkin’, Boot Scootin’ Ranchers

Ranchers Honky Tonkin’ at the Fort Worth Stockyards

Scott and Vicki Baker Yeehaw! Led by trail boss Debra Davis, 16 brave souls ventured off the Ranch and beyond the big brown gates to check out the Honky Tonkin’ night life in the Fort Worth Stockyards on Saturday night, July 18. History has it that as drovers headed longhorn cattle up the Chisolm Trail…

Happy Birthday to you! – Susan Glazer ushers in 97

Susan with her daughter Beth; photo by Mary Ornberg

Janie Farnsworth On July 14 the Wildhorse Lady Niners celebrated our matriarchal member Susan Glazer’s 97th birthday. She came to us on a hurricane called Ike in 2008 from Beaumont, TX. A happy birthday song and cake greeted Susan after she played nine holes of golf. There was a sizeable crowd with birthday cards to…

Designing with Carol: A lesson in modern art

Carol Collins Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Some examples are: The Impressionism Movement, which flourished between 1873 and 1880 and…

Doolittle’s Rangers – Part 2

CSM George Alatzas, USA (RET) Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959 the city of Tuscon, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets.…