"A Conversation with The McConaugheys" will highlight the work of the couple's just keep livin Foundation as well as personal stories of life, love, career, family, and the importance of "legacy choices."

Creative Arts Center in Bonham was the place to be Thursday night when Watusi took the stage to kick off the Music in the Garden free concert series. A large crowd filled the garden as Jimi "Watusi" Towry treated his hometown to a performance that felt like a homecoming with a reggae soundtrack.

The Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site is having its annual Farming Heritage Day event on September 21, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. This free event is a celebration of farming and the community that farmers support! All are welcome to visit our site to walk where farmer and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn once lived and worked as you view farm animals, historic vehicles, local organizations, demonstrations, and more!

Explore the Earth-Kind® Gardens this fall—from perennials to vegetables and our new pollinator garden. Enjoy live painting by artists from The Art Club of McKinney and McKinney Plein Air Society in each garden. Discover the beauty of autumn at our rescheduled event.

Save the date for the Bois d'Arc Festival - September 20-21. Get ready for an exciting weekend filled with live music, shopping, delicious food trucks, and a cornhole tournament!

1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.James Joseph Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to write, record and perform concerts. After Croce formed a partnership with the songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen in the early 1970s, his fortunes turned. Croce's breakthrough came in 1972, when his third album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle," which reached No. 1 after Croce died. The follow-up album Life and Times included the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Croce's only No. 1 hit during his lifetime. On September 20, 1973, at the height of his popularity and the day before the lead single to his fifth album, I Got a Name, was released, Croce and five others died in a plane crash. He was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College. In a letter to his wife Ingrid that arrived after his death, Croce told her that he had decided to quit music and wanted to write short stories and movie scripts as a career and withdraw from public life.