Texas Star Trading Blog

The prolific cookbook publisher, Gooseberry Patch, has included recipes from three Abilene residents in its All-Time-Favorite Recipes from Texas Cooks, a very approachable and affordable hardback, spiral-bound cookbook for just $13.95. Many of the 175 recipes are covered in a half page or one page and seem pretty easy to ...
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Abilene tennis pro/coach Rick Meyers has produced five new books of tennis lessons and tips for players of all ages and levels, from beginners to champions. Three of the books are compilations from the Tennis Corner column he wrote for the Abilene Reporter-News from 1998 to 2016. The columns were ...
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Abilene’s Les Hammond gets the reader’s attention right away in the first sentence of his debut novel, The Arms of God.  “Mike Wakefield was fourteen years old the year Stella Clement shot Junior Clement dead.” That was 1956. The Clements’ oldest son, Trace, was 8. Their other two children were ...
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By Glenn Dromgoole If you missed the terrific one-man play Amon! The Ultimate Texan at the Paramount Theatre on Feb. 22 – or if you saw it and would like to read more about Amon G. Carter – playwright Dave Lieber has also published a book of vignettes and photos ...
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By Glenn Dromgoole Lonn Taylor, who lived in Fort Davis and wrote a very literate weekly column for the Marfa newspaper, died last summer, just a few months after his most recent book was published — “Turning the Pages of Texas” ($22.95), one of the best books ever written about ...
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‘Abilene Forever’ one of many songs about Abilene The other day I was having lunch with a group of ladies after speaking to their club, and one of the women at our table said her grandmother or great-grandmother used to sing a song she learned in elementary school here. The ...
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