by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Nov 30, 2017 | Travel
Kilgore blends the love of the holidays with the iconic history of this famous oil town. Brilliant lights, lots of cheer, and even more spirit — that’s Christmas and Kilgore offers plenty of each for a Christmas celebration unlike any other town in Texas. From the...
by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Nov 30, 2017 | Travel
From the creek meandering through the town, to the dozens of unique shops and eateries, spend some time in paradise. Walk through the streets of Salado and see this small town sitting at the edge of the Texas Hill Country come alive with the panache it’s been known...
by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Oct 25, 2017 | Travel
Travel along this state roadway for some holiday fun Texas Highway 19 forms the western border of East Texas stretching from Huntsville in the south to Paris in the far reaches of North Texas. It passes through towering forests of pine trees, rolling hills, historic...
by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Sep 26, 2017 | Travel
Bellville baker turns dreams into reality Mike Newman bestows knighthood upon a cadre of youngsters before allowing them to enter his realm – his castle where he reigns as king. His castle is not just figurative, Mike Newman actually built a castle in the rolling...
by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Sep 26, 2017 | Travel
On the first day of February 2003 tragedy fell from the skies across East Texas when the space shuttle Columbia came apart after its heat shield over its left wing failed due to damage suffered during the launch 16 days earlier. A nation watched in stunned horror, as...
by cstewart@texasfarmandhome.com | Sep 26, 2017 | Travel
For more than 300 years Hemphill and Sabine County served as the overland gateway into the vast expanses of the Lone Star State. Back in the days when Texas was nothing more than a vast empty wilderness on the northern frontier of Spanish territory in the New World,...
