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Super Bowl Volunteers

July 17th, 2010 by Grover McMains

The Super Bowl needs volunteers.

If you live in this area, you are either very excited about next year’s Super Bowl here, or you’re planning to leave town!  If you are excited, there is a great way for you to be involved in a way very few people will be, as a volunteer.  Former Cowboy tailback Tony Dorsett is heading the volunteer effort, and literally thousands of people will be needed in hundreds of ways.  The best part is that you get to pick your preferred volunteer activity.  This won’t get you a ticket to the game, and more than likely you won’t get to meet any of the players for either team.  But you will be an important part of a tremendous effort to make Super Bowl XLV a success for Dallas and Fort Worth.  So, if you’re interested, go to the North Texas Super Bowl web site to register or email volunteers@northtexassuperbowl.com for all the information and registration materials.  Why, if you’re really lucky, you might be assigned to greet the Super Bowl guests who stay at The Texas White House!

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Gary Nicholson Selected to Texas Heritage Songwriters' Hall of Fame

July 12th, 2010 by Grover McMains

Gary Nicholson's room at The Texas White House

Just like most songwriters, you’ve probably never heard of Gary Nicholson, but he’s published over 350 songs and is responsible for over a dozen major hits in country music, rock, blues and folk.  He’s also been a frequent visitor to The Texas White House.  In fact, his favorite room is the Land of Contrast because it’s decorated in black and white, but that’s a story for another time.

Gary has been selected to be a 2011 inductee into the Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Association Hall of Fame along with his close friend, Delbert McClinton, who also visited The Texas White House.  Gary was born in Garland, Texas but now lives in Nashville with his wife, Barbara.  He routinely performs at the McDavid Studio here in Fort Worth, part of the Bass Performance Hall.  However, for the first time in 30 years he will return to Garland, conduct a Songwriter’s Workshop on July 24 (469-831-2123) and perform on July 25 at the Plaza Theatre (972-205-2790) in association with the Garland Country Music Association.  The show will benefit Attachment Parenting International.  If you enjoy up-close, smaller venue shows and great talent, you should plan to see Gary perform.  You’ll also be helping a very worthwhile charity.  We’ll be there.  If you come because of this post, introduce yourself to us, and we’ll buy you a drink!

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Blue Star Museums in Fort Worth

July 8th, 2010 by Grover McMains

Blue Star Flag

In cooperation with Blue Star Families and the National Endowment for the Arts, over 600 museums across the country are allowing active duty military and their families free admission through Labor Day of this year.  In Fort Worth the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are all participants in this program.

Have you seen a blue star on a rectangular red and white background on a car or in the window of a house?  In case you don’t know its significance, it means that a family member is serving in the United States armed forces.  It may have begun earlier, but it was a very prominent feature in homes during World War II, and if the person died serving in the military, a gold star was displayed.  During WWII The Texas White House, home to the James Newkirk family at the time, proudly displayed four blue stars.  To honor those four young men, our bed and breakfast has offered discounts to military personnel since September 11, 2001.

If you’re active duty military or know someone who is, please let them know about the Blue Star Museum program.  You can find all participating museums online at Blue Star Families.  And when you call that family, be sure to say, “thanks for your service to our country.”

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Fort Worth Western Art Museum Dazzles Visitors

July 2nd, 2010 by Grover McMains

The Old West Comes Alive

I think it’s my favorite museum, and in Fort Worth that’s saying something!  The Sid Richardson Museum of Western Art is an impressive collection of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell paintings and sculptures.  It’s not paintings of the glamourous old west we see in movies; it’s the tough lives and harsh conditions of the real, old west, but it is eloquently depicted by these two, famous artists.  So much so, that it seems to come alive as you view it.  If you’re old enough to remember when the phone books had pictures on the front of them, you will probably recognize some of these paintings.  That’s where you’ve seen them before.

The museum is conveniently located in downtown, and it’s the only museum open on Mondays.  It’s a Fort Worth attraction you definitely should not miss.

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