By JIM NICHOLS An academic colleague of mine has been involved in a multi-year research project in a tall grass prairie area of Oklahoma. In 1999 in a localized area, above ground rusty pipes decayed sufficiently to dump their contents onto the land. This was an oil field and some of the spilled material was oil itself and the other
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“Feed my sheep,” He said. “Feed the hungry and the poor,” He says to his church. Glenn Dromgoole is a former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News and the author of numerous books. He and his wife, Carol, own Texas Star Trading Company.
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Tickets are on sale for An Aaron Watson Family Christmas concert, which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 and Dec. 22, at the Paramount Theater. Tickets range from $29 to $49. Click here to order. The Paramount issued the following news release: Back due to popular demand, Abilene’s own Aaron Watson is returning to his hometown for, not one,
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By NANCY PATRICK I have written before about my brain’s inability to relax. I think a lot about the ironies, complexities, injustices, and undecipherable events of life. You know the kinds of things to which I refer—family of origin, nationality, race, intelligence, opportunity, and gender. Because a greater power than humanity has determined these factors, we can never know answers.
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By JAY MOORE There is a building along North 1st rooted in foreign inspiration. The brainchild was born in 1958 during a visit to the Brussels World’s Fair. During the six-month run, over 41 million people came to the Brussels Fair—known as Expo ‘58—including at least two from Abilene. That couple came home with an idea. Here’s the story. Jack
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other side And built a
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By JIM NICHOLS From 1951 to 2008 one of the best known and most quickly recognized Americans was radio broadcaster Paul Harvey. On national radio his news and comment six days a week is estimated to have reached 24 million listeners every week. Like other popular personalities, he developed some trademark phrases and speaking mannerisms that made him instantly recognizable
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The public is invited to join members of the Abilene Interfaith Council on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for an evening of “Practicing Spiritual Disciplines.” The monthly meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Garden of Hope at First Central Presbyterian Church on the corner of North Fourth and Beech streets. Rev. Grace Sosa, Rev. Carlo Sosa-Ortiz, Dr. Angela Nicolini-Starr, Susanna
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Walk the extra mile isn’t so easy to do if you don’t have shoes. Glenn Dromgoole is a former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News and the author of numerous books. He and his wife, Carol, own Texas Star Trading Company.
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Spirit Of Abilene 