Something old. Something new.
This serial story is an alternative view of actual Texas history. Created with fiction, this six-installment series will reveal an imagined view of the early days in East Texas and the grit and vision of Longview’s founding family, Margaret and O.H. Methvin.
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For 78 years, “Rural East Texas” has been telling a bigger story than just the scenes it depicts from its spot above an office door in the downtown Longview post office lobby.
The Longview Museum of Fine Arts has drawn East Texas artists into Longview’s 150th birthday celebration.
Robert (Bob) Holloway Sr. remembers playing dominoes with his grandmother, Lizzie Methvin, in the three-story house that once sat on Rock Hill on what is now Center Street in Longview.
Pat and Kathleen Mays’ home on College Street near downtown Longview represents a beautiful failure at downsizing.
Back in 2001, real estate agent Billy Decker was looking for another office location when he found an ideal site — and a signature piece of Longview history — in the Northcutt house, at 313 S. Fredonia St.
When the Hotel Marshall was built in 1929 in downtown Marshall, the interior brick walls were coated with a black substance that provided insulation and weather proofing.
If you missed the signs saying “Everest Rehabilitation Hospital of Longview,” you could mistake this hospital’s waiting area for the lobby and reception desk of a boutique hotel.
Marshall’s newly renovated Memorial City Hall will sing a new song this fall and Christmas season, when the more than 100-year-old building welcomes a Texas country music legend and an internationally known performing group to the stage.
The Bramlette Estate holds a significant place in Longview’s history, but it is love that propels it toward the city’s future: the love of childhood dreams, of nature, of hard work, of beautiful things, and the love between a husband and wife.
When city leaders talk about what’s on the horizon in downtown Gilmer’s future, their comments focus on a new attitude.
Pittsburg has an award-winning downtown, and there’s talk locally about an improving economy and evidence that the best is yet to come.
Oh East Texas, how do we love you? You’re a hot, humid, beautiful mess. You’re a sweet song and an old story. You’re a walk in the park that we hope never ends. We just can’t get enough of you. Here's a look at just some of the reasons View Magazine believes East Texas is a place like no other.
There’s not a more heavenly sight than springtime in Texas when the wildflowers are in bloom. When I was a little girl, my parents would load my brother and me up in the family sedan for a Sunday drive through the countryside to visit the bluebonnets.
You don’t have to look very hard to see this town’s roots. Railroad tracks laid down in the 1870s by the Texas and Pacific Railway Co. run right through downtown, and the pumping unit from the first gusher drilled near town during the 1930s oil boom sits beside the rails, a derrick towering …
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