"Damned Dam" In Bosque County, Texas, Nothing To Sing About After Torrential ...

Songwriter and current Texas Poet Laureate, Steven Fromholz, wrote about tiny Kopperl, Bosque County, Texas, in his epic song The Texas Trilogy. "They dammed up the Brazos to build Lake Whitney. Brought some fishermen down from Dallas and Ft. Worth. Town sure has been quiet...

Their beat goes on in perfect rhythm

The Texas FlatLINErs, starring Eric Taylor, Steven Fromholz and Vince Bell, stole the show Monday night, June 4 at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, Texas. All three musicians, at some time over the past few...

The luckiest man alive escapes death on D-Day

“I am the luckiest man alive,” claims eighty-nine year old Rudolph Scheffrahn, pouring slivovitz into three small, heavily cut crystal goblets and handing two of them to the two men in our group of four. He waves...

Texas Poet Laureate brings new rhythm to elderly man's life

Prussian born Rudolph Scheffrahn is no stranger to adversity. He and his wife of almost 62 years survived the horrors of World War II when Scheffrahn was drafted by the German army. He barely escaped an assignment to...

A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral.

A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral.    Monday, April 30, 2007, 7.30 pm, at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, Alice MacKay Room, lower lever. The World Poetry Reading Series is organizing a tribute to Chilean poet, educator and...
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"Damned Dam" In Bosque County, Texas, Nothing To Sing About After Torrential ...

Songwriter and current Texas Poet Laureate, Steven Fromholz, wrote about tiny Kopperl, Bosque County, Texas, in his epic song The Texas Trilogy. "They dammed up the Brazos to build Lake Whitney. Brought some fishermen down from Dallas and Ft. Worth. Town sure has been quiet...

Their beat goes on in perfect rhythm

The Texas FlatLINErs, starring Eric Taylor, Steven Fromholz and Vince Bell, stole the show Monday night, June 4 at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, Texas. All three musicians, at some time over the past few...

The luckiest man alive escapes death on D-Day

“I am the luckiest man alive,” claims eighty-nine year old Rudolph Scheffrahn, pouring slivovitz into three small, heavily cut crystal goblets and handing two of them to the two men in our group of four. He waves...

Texas Poet Laureate brings new rhythm to elderly man's life

Prussian born Rudolph Scheffrahn is no stranger to adversity. He and his wife of almost 62 years survived the horrors of World War II when Scheffrahn was drafted by the German army. He barely escaped an assignment to...

A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral.

A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral.    Monday, April 30, 2007, 7.30 pm, at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, Alice MacKay Room, lower lever. The World Poetry Reading Series is organizing a tribute to Chilean poet, educator and...

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