by Alice Liles | Dec 18, 2019 | Bright Lights
Robert Hooten was stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. His uncle and aunt Ralph and Esther Johnson lived in nearby Las Cruces, New Mexico, and he visited them often. Robert happened to visit and attend church with them on the weekend that the church introduced Maurine...
by Alice Liles | Dec 10, 2019 | Bright Lights
Pat Angeley invited me to go with her to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra extravaganza in Lubbock last week. She had seen them before; I had not. We arrived early because we knew parking would be frantic, and it was, but we managed a fairly close parking space with a...
by Alice Liles | Nov 18, 2019 | Bright Lights
In 1984 Shelley Sain, Alan Finney, Barb Seaton, Jeff Hagis, Chris Hernandez, band director Anthony Gibson, and the rest of the Muleshoe High School band competed for honors and the right to go to the UIL state marching contest. The Mighty Mule band placed third; only...
by Alice Liles | Nov 9, 2019 | Bright Lights
I shared with you the honor of The Bright Lights of Muleshoe being deemed worthy of shelf space in the Texas State Library and Archives as well as in the Texas Center for the Book in Austin. All of that earned me an invitation to the Fourth Annual Texas Authors...
by Alice Liles | Oct 17, 2019 | Bright Lights
In 2015 Foodways Texas honored Irma Leal with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions in preserving and celebrating the culture of Mexican food in Texas. And when you enter Leal’s Mexican Food Restaurant in Muleshoe, you are greeted by a picture of her...
by Alice Liles | Oct 14, 2019 | Bright Lights
Saturday night, October 12th, I enjoyed my first visit to the Rose Ball held at the Desert Rose, a fund-raising gala for the American Cancer Society spearheaded by Rhonda Myers, a breast cancer survivor who wanted to do something that would pay it forward, to help...
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