Dallas / Fort Worth and Me

When I last left you, Gentle Reader, I hadn’t finished talking about the wonders of Scarborough Faire — the yearly Renaissance Festival currently underway outside of Waxahachie, which is about 25 miles south of DFW. This is a great festival to visit. It’s a lot cheaper, admittance-wise, than most amusement parks, and it’s at least [...]

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Are you going to Scarborough Faire? No, Paul and Art, I already did. On April 20, I had the opportunity to visit my very first Renaissance Festival — in this case Scarborough Faire, a great big festival located on permanent grounds just outside of Waxahachie, Texas. Now, back when I was a lad, “the Renaissance [...]

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Last episode I waxed poetic (as I so often do) about Dallas Heritage Village, which is located on the environs of the big D’s original city park — which is called, cleverly enough, Old City Park. The curators have collected and maintained 38 wonderful old buildings from all over North Texas, including a log cabin [...]

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By an accident of history, it just so happens that there isn’t that much of it in the New World. (History, I mean.) Whereas it’s not uncommon for people in England or France to live in homes built four hundred years ago, in the U.S. structures of that age or older are vanishingly rare and, [...]

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 Today, folks, I’m going to talk to you about the bluebonnet. And no, I don’t mean the famous brand of margarine, though I admit, I’m a little partial to it — it does taste better than most brands of not-butter.  Nay, the bluebonnet I prefer to wax lyrical about is not a tub of processed [...]

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 So, I moseyed on down to Trader’s Village in Grand Prairie today, so I could attend the 33rd Annual Prairie Dog Chili Cookoff and World Championship of Pickled Quail Egg Eating (and ain’t that a mouthful). More than that, I participated. Now, pickled quail egg eating is not my thing, although the event recently came [...]

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Deep Ellum is well known for its artistic inclinations (one need only look at all the murals all over, not to mention the Deep Ellum Art Park), and once a year they hold a fun little blowout called the Deep Ellum Arts Festival. This year’s took place April 4-6, and was sponsored primarily by Jeep [...]

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 In my last entry, I talked a bit about Bonnie and Clyde, who happen to be buried in Dallas (though not together). I even directed the interested onlooker to the grave of Bonnie Parker, which is located in the Crown Hill Memorial Park on Webb Chapel Road, one of our main thoroughfares. By all accounts, [...]

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Like any large city, the DFW metroplex has its share of celebrity graves. For example, baseball legend Mickey Mantle is buried in Dallas, and the grave of rocker “Dimebag Darrell” Abbott (late of Pantera and Damageplan) can be found in Arlington. Someday, I’ll put together a sweet little entry or two about how to find [...]

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