David McClister, the artist behind the photograph series “Rastlin – A Southern Survey” currently on view at Stephen F. Austin State University’s The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, will deliver a 5 p.m. gallery talk on Thursday, Jan. 19.
This photograph by David McClister is included in “Rastlin – A Southern Survey,” an exhibition at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches. The show, which documents small town wrestling in the South, will close on Saturday, Jan. 21. McClister’s gallery talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, will be followed by a 6 to 8 p.m. reception.
“We invite everyone who has already viewed the exhibition and those who have not yet seen it to come hear David and to stay for the reception immediately afterwards,” said Charlene Rathburn, SFA galleries director.
McClister is a Nashville-based photographer and music video director who specializes in documentary, photojournalism and celebrity portraiture. The “Rastlin” series documents small town wrestling in the South.
“There was something about this world—the sounds, the smells, the fans—the action inside and outside the ring—everything about it—fascinated me,” wrote McClister in his artist statement for the exhibition.
The photos will be included in a book of the same title being released by the SFA University Press later this spring.
“Rastlin – A Southern Survey” is a joint presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Art. It is sponsored in part by the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts and Nacogdoches Junior Forum. The exhibition will close on Saturday, Jan. 21.
The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main St. Regular gallery hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free. For more information, please call (936) 468-1131.
Services for Garry Lynn Evans, 52, of Nacogdoches will be held at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, January 15, at Cason Monk-Metcalf Sunset Chapel, Nacogdoches, with Rev. John McGuire officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
Mr. Evans passed away Monday, January 9, 2012, at his residence. He was born February 11, 1959.
Visitation will be held Saturday, Jan. 14, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Online condolences accepted at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
Willow Morgan Luther was born and passed away January 4, 2012, in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Family graveside rites were conducted at Sunset Memorial Park in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Arrangements were under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas. Online guestbook posted and condolences accepted at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
Mrs. Wilma Maurice (Whitton) Cecil, age 97, of Nacogdoches, Texas, passed away Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, at a local nursing home.
Mrs. Cecil was born June 8, 1914, in Swift, Texas, as a daughter of the late Lewis Alexander Whitton and Mary Elmira (Ward) Whitton. She was a retired from the faculty of Stephen F. Austin State University as an English professor.
She is survived by her son, Anthony Clay Cecil Jr.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas. Online guestbook and condolences accepted at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
Mrs. Vickie Lucille Oliver, age 63, of Nacogdoches, Texas, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2012.
Mrs. Oliver was born October 17, 1948, in Dallas, Texas, and had lived in Nacogdoches County, Texas, for several years. She was a former longtime resident of El Paso.
She is survived by her husband, Dwayne Oliver of Nacogdoches, Texas; daughters, Katlyn Oliver of Nacogdoches, Texas, and Rebecca Prock of Boise, Idaho; daughter-in-law, Misty Olfers of Sherman, Texas; grandchildren, Kourtney Olfers, Brock Olfers, and D.J. Olfers, all of Sherman, Texas; a sister, Debbie Pavloff of Sherman, Texas; and a brother, John Bennett of Florida.
She was preceded in death by a son, David Bryce Olfers; her father, John Bennett; and her mother, Peggy Bennett.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 11, at Cason Monk-Metcalf Sunset Chapel, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas. Online guestbook posted and condolences accepted at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office that list the reports from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day AND this is the report from the Nacogdoches County Jail that lists the arrests made from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
I hate to bag on the New Sears, but it just keeps getting better. I had again returned my mower after the intown service trip which took 3 weeks, only to find out that the gasoline still leaked right out of the mower when I put it in. 18 miles to town, 18 miles back, then repeat to pick it up. This time they said for sure they would fix it. In the mean time I got an on-line survey to complete about my satisfaction with my service. Hmmmmmm.
While I was there, I bought 2 flashlights, battery powered to go with my set of 19.2 saws, drills, and sanders. I pulled them out to use to fix the dryer door handle on our Kenmore $1,300 dryer that totally depends on two screws to pull a handle that is made of light gage plastic, which broke, and I had ordered the handle from the repairman who had come to fix the Kenmore oven which went on the fritz when we had the nephews and niece over for the holidays. Imagine 4 teens and pre-teens and no cookies at Christmas! The plastic handle was $30, and no bigger than half the size of the palm of my hand. 2 screws hold together a $1,300 dryer? The Old Sears would have used ½ inch lug nuts made of titanium. By the way, the flashlights flickered for a second and then died.
Both of them did the same thing. Switch on. Flicker. Nothing. Newly charged batteries. But I don’t want to just leave this all at the front door of Sears.
This is symptomatic. We need a “National Return This Junk Where It Came From Day.” I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way. There have been many movies made about how people are sick and tired of how shoddy the goods are in America, how over crowded the highways are, about the housing and banking and medical industries seem to be painstakingly gutted of their pride and quality assurance. The media has exposed it and the politicians have laid blame. No one actually takes responsibility, so I guess I will have to step up and take the blame myself.
I am sorry America that I did not deal with this when it first started happening. We really first noted this when we could no longer sit on the fender of a car without leaving a dent. We knew that America had headed down a dark path as soon as we heard the word, “Plastics.” It was the end of civilization as we knew it.
From that moment on, everything went low rent, bottom dollar, and that was the final nail in the coffin. Sure, I appreciate everything that plastic has accomplished. I need plastic. I’m not talking about the material; I’m talking about the concept. I’m talking about the difference between everything before 1967 and everything after 1967.
At that critical moment, like Kandinsky looking at a Monet with the first real non-objective eye, like Hubble looking out into the transforming cosmos, like Derrida opening the history of the mind by taking Nietzsche’s philology to its logical conclusion, we finally come to that post-modernist question, “Who says?” In a way it is a Neo-Buddhist mind cracking koan that questions the most basic and fundamental reality. If those who are the experts can’t even crack the code and yet they are asking us to follow them, how smart can they be? Why aren’t economists super rich?
I know why super smart people are not often very rich; they know something worth knowing that is more valuable than being financially wealthy. Maybe they know how to fix the junk they buy and so they make the money they spend count.
But let me get back to my National Day of Mourning the quality we used to take for granted. Okay, we have imported a bunch of stuff that looks like it should work but is usually from China and it is often poisonous. That is something they have learned from the West: grind up a little of the trash and put inside the product so that you don’t have to pay to have it hauled away! It is the ultimate recycling project! Make stuff, take the garbage, repackage it, and then sell that too. After all, if they could package and sell cow dung in candy boxes in the 1950’s, why not sell all the rest of the crap to us in the 21st Century?
But, I digress. Let’s say that we just simply take all of the stuff we have that does not work and we take it back to the stores where we bought it. If all 400,000,000 of us loaded up all the junk and returned it all in one day, we would be cleaning out a lot of headaches and showing the manufacturers that we will not put up with their non-quality looks-like-it-works-but-doesn’t stuff anymore. The news media would report that Wal-Mart and Sears and Target and K-Mart and all the other retailers have now gotten the message. Really good reporters would take the chance to see which things we most often returned and which manufacturers were rebuffed the most.
I know this idea has a huge flaw in it: What would stop people from just cleaning out their garages and dumping their unwanted garbage on the front steps of the retailers? Hmmmmm. Okay, here’s the deal. I’m asking people to be fair and honest and healthy-minded and to not just dump their garbage on the front steps of theses retailers; after all, the retailers did not try to pawn off their junk on us did they?
This is a complete list of reports responded to by the Nacogdoches Police Department
NPD officers stopped a vehicle for traffic violations Tuesday morning at 6:50 am in the 1700 Block of SW Stallings drive. Through investigation, officers located over 50 pounds of marijuana in the trunk compartment of the vehicle. Arrested were the driver of the vehicle, Samuel Seth Froman, age 27 of Lacona, In. and a passenger, Anthony Pierce, age 31 of Louisville, Ky. They both remain in the Nacogdoches County Jail. No other information is available at this time, as the reports have not been completed.
