"That it will never come again
is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson
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Lots of folks can see how syrup is made and get a taste of the sweet life at the Henderson Heritage Syrup Festival on November 13. Visitors find other demonstrations as well by blacksmiths, broom makers, spinners, and others that give us a nostalgic break from stresses of today.
Another place to step out of this time zone is in Edgewood on the same day. This year’s annual Edgewood Heritage Festival pays tribute to one of the founders of the event and the historical park where it takes place.
Enjoy a little step back in time in this issue and find more to explore in the Upper East Side of Texas in County Line eMagazine. — P.A. Geddie
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Watercolor artist David Tripp features small-town American sights fading from our landscape, but not our memories. Find him at the Gallery at Redlands in Palestine and see more of his work on www.davidtrippart.com.
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Back in the days when more Texans lived on farms than in cities, syrup time in November was a big treat. Families all over the region gathered to make pails of syrup from tall ripe stalks of sugarcane. They guarded it carefully and used it as a sweetener in homemade goods all year long.
The city of Henderson and people from Rusk County revived the folk tradition of syrup making more than 30 years ago when they brought the Heritage Syrup Festival to life. Now in its 32nd year the annual celebration draws roughly 10,000 visitors to the Depot Museum grounds and historic downtown Henderson. This year’s festival is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, November 13.
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Born in 1996, the blooming big screen star and Elkhart, Texas, native Tye Sheridan celebrates his 25th birthday this year November 11. Sheridan began acting at age 11 while still a student in Elkhart schools in southern Anderson County but continued acting and completed his education with tutors on the set until age 16.
Sheridan stars in George Clooney’s latest film The Tender Bar (see trailer above) with Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd. Sheridan plays the older JR who seeks guidance from father figures in his uncle’s Long Island bar. The coming-of-age film first aired at the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival in October and is set to release in December.
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The Edgewood Historical Society is hosting its free annual celebration from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, November 13, at Heritage Park Museum of East Texas.
Visitors to the Edgewood Heritage Festival find classic cars show, antique tractors, mini bike races, a model train demo, an old west reenactment, arts and crafts, food and vendors, a pinto beans cook-off, a gourmet bake sale, children’s activities and rides, pictures with Santa, live music, and more.
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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a “tunnel rat” who blew smoke into the Viet Cong’s underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” For a marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” or the song that gives this book its title.
In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the world back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight.
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