those are great pics. amy.
i'll give ya'll some links to where i'm at and some from the area i grew up in. the area is the typical amercan small town and city. depending on your experience you could love it or hate it. mine is a love-hate relationship with the area.
we call home good ole athens. it is the """Original Home of the
Hamburger""""". that's debateable. there's a few other towns that want to claim that title too. so far we are winning.
we are also the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World and have a festival to prove it. we also have a fiddlers' contest every year around May. all kinds of folk show up and the music is awesome.
there's also a communty college and a fish hatchery--the only one that has been said to provide fish for all the nation. (i can't remember how they put it. but it had something to do with them being the only hatchery that restocks and stocks water areas in the whole U.S. with the fish that should be in them. it maybe that texas fish hatcheries do that. but i don't know 'cause i can't remeber.
) the hatchery have a great july 4th fireworks every year as does many other communities in the area.
there's tons of lakes here in the area. tx is supposed to have the most man-made lakes in the nation or something like that. (agin, i can't remember.
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i grew up around canton and in some of the other towns in the van zandt county. van zandt was the only dry county in the state until 2009. that whole area as like other places has lots of festivals and stuff all year. so there's usually something to do.
one place is the "first monday trade days" in canton. there's a saying " no one from canton does anything on that weekend because of all traffic". its most likely true. i know it is for us. the traffic is worse than being in a big city during that time of the month due to how small the area really is. its also the biggest flea market in the U.S.
yep, we love our sports and most folks love god too. texas is in the bible belt so there's no shortage of churches.
there's a couple of old sayings: " everything is bigger in texas" and "texas is like a whole other country". both tend to be very true. that may sound like its bragging but...
we are also VEry Friendly.
East Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canton, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Van Zandt County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Athens, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
if i'm able to get back in here later i'll try to hunt up some pics. i never know when the internet is gonna quit lately. can't figure out what's wrong.