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TEXARKANA, Texas -- Crews work on the former Timberlake Hardware Store at 306 Main St. Thursday afternoon in Texarkana. The vintage building which is now 80 to perhaps 100 years old, is being remodeled into a future breakfast and lunch cafe. An opening date for the cafe is still pending. (Staff photo by Greg Bischof)
By Greg Bischof
The Texarkana Museums System conducted its final Twilight Cemetery Tour for this year, Saturday, at the Calvary Cemetery in the 3400 block of Sanderson Lane, in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Cemetery, founded in 1918, became the final resting place of Sir Roger O'Dwyer ( being portrayed by a local resident, standing far to the left). O'Dwyer, who journeyed from Ireland to the U.S., sometime in the 19th Century, migrated to Texarkana, where he eventually became a businessman and prominent landowner.TMS has been conducting Twilight Cemetery Tours for about the last five years.(Photo by Greg Bischof).
FOUKE, Ark. -- About Dec. 1, 1941, relatives of area resident Hubert Aaron mailed him a Christmas package that came back marked "undeliverable" -- and his family already knew why.
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- The Texarkana Museums System held their second annual Historic Preservation Awards ceremony on Saturday at the historic P.J. Ahern House.