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By staff writer Jessica Bartel
Back in the time of bare-foot summer days, running in the creek when your phone number resembled 40-F-2, Myrtle Gaisford offered young boys the opportunity to be
boys. Myrtle English Gaisford was born in 1900. She was the youngest of six children born to John and Ella English. Myrtle was born and raised in Dallas. Being a city girl, she would come to move to the rural area between Ponder and Justin and grow very close to the lifestyle.
Myrtle was married at the young age of 18. At the time a war was raging. Following her marriage and deployment of her husband, Myrtle found out she was expecting her first child. As in many instances of the era, Myrtle would lose her first husband during WWI. For being so long ago, and in such a dire time, very little is known about this man, even his full name. It was guessed that Myrtle never spent time on the subject due to the traumatic conclusion.
A few years later Myrtle met an English man by the name of Richard “Dick” Lush Gaisford . The two were married in 1922. In 1929 the two moved their growing family to the country. The eldest of the family was Keith, next came Jonny, Marie, Barbara, Richard, Greta and then baby Hugh.
To read more pick up the March 2014 issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch.
By Donna Long
If you are hankerin’ for home cooking just like grandma used to make with fresh ingredients, then look no further than Dixie House Cafe with locations in Fort Worth, Saginaw, and Euless. Dixie House, which was originally named Theresa’s Cafe after its owner, opened its first restaurant in 1983.
In the early days, it was just Theresa and one employee that ran the cafe. Between the two of them, they created mouth-watering meals from scratch using tried and true recipes. Dixie House is where the nostalgic vibe of a 60’s diner meets the charm of Southern hospitality and cooking. The portions are substantial, and the flavor is reminiscent of a time when meals were slow-cooked with families gathered in the kitchen and not hurriedly microwaved.
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By Phillip Kitts
With most of America fighting off the winter blues and setting their sights on the warmth of spring, the rodeo world is already heating up. It is often common chatter about how the rodeo world really does not have an off season. In October when the regular season wraps up, it is not even a week before rodeo athletes start running to fall rodeos so they can start building up money toward the next year’s finals. It is true that fall rodeos do not have big payouts, but many athletes take the every dollar counts approach and throw several of them on the calendar.
November and December may be the slowest months of the rodeo year, but believe it or not, there are still plenty of places rodeo athletes can go and earn a small check. Traditionally the number of rodeos in the winter months is lower, but the few events that do happen tend to have big payouts. Pretty much every rodeo fan knows all about places like Denver, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Rapid City. These are all big scale events with huge payouts.
To read more, pick up a copy of the March issue of NTFR Magazine. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
By Lindsey Monk
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