by Alice Liles | Jul 19, 2021 | Bright Lights
Twelve miles east of Lazbuddie at the intersection of Highway 145 and FM 503/504 just past where Parmer County gives way to Castro County, a community called Big Square thrived, for a time, on land that used to be part of the XIT Ranch. Big Square is now gone,...
by Alice Liles | Jul 5, 2021 | Bright Lights
Muleshoe, like most of the United States, I suspect, celebrated July 4th on July 3rd because the holiday fell on a Sunday this year. Not a problem; certainly not in Muleshoe, because we had a big, happy crowd out for the festivities all day and lots of...
by Alice Liles | Jun 24, 2021 | Bright Lights
The trip to Schulenburg that Elaine and I took was specifically to visit the painted churches, which we did, and really enjoyed. I shared the churches with you in an earlier post. But we also had a great time shopping and touring Schulenburg, La Grange,...
by Alice Liles | Jun 18, 2021 | Bright Lights
Schulenburg, Texas, is a thriving, peaceful little town of 2852 citizens nestled in the rolling hills between Austin and Houston. Its beginning dates back to a land grant given to Kesiah Crier in 1831 by the Mexican government and was settled by German and Czech...
by Alice Liles | Jun 9, 2021 | Bright Lights
The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge hosted a playa lake field day on May 18th. I didn’t know much about these big puddles of water, so I decided I needed to find out more about them. By the end of the day, I decided they tend to be misunderstood and...
by Alice Liles | May 31, 2021 | Bright Lights
B.J. Thomas died Saturday, May 29th, to cancer. I was sorry we lost him. I grew up listening to his music when he sang with The Triumphs, a rock bank based in Rosenberg, Texas, where I grew up. Okay, it’s a stretch to say I knew him. He was a senior at Lamar...
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