All aboard! Thomas the Tank Engine™, everyone's favorite No. 1 blue engine, is rolling into Grapevine this October for Day Out with Thomas™: The Let's Rock, Let's Roll Tour. Tickets are on sale now for this family-friendly experience aboard Grapevine Vintage Railroad. Families will enjoy a train ride with a life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine along with a full day of activities, including live entertainment, photo opportunities with Sir Topham Hatt™, lawn games, the interactive Music Corner featuring hands-on activities and music-inspired fun and shopping for exclusive Thomas
merchandise.

It's Farmers Market Week at the Art Center! Be sure to stop by this Saturday, August 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vendors will be set up INSIDE and OUTSIDE the center.

Their sentence has been served. Grapevine's famous Would-Be Train Robbers, Nat Barrett and Willy Majors, have been released from behind bars following major technological upgrades to the Grapevine Glockenspiel. Visitors can now watch the notorious pair emerge from the 75-foot tower several times each day to settle their Wild West rivalry.

Alan Briseño (left) and Dr. Billy Quarles collaborated on research published in The Astrophysical Journal, with Briseño serving as the paper's first author. photo credit: Jason Connel, ETAMU Marketing and Communications

Small communities in Texas may not have a tax base to pull revenue from, but that doesn’t mean resources aren’t available when things are needed. Residents of the small community of Gober understand that everything, including necessary utilities, comes at a cost that ultimately becomes theirs to pay. They also understand that no matter what your name, title, or role is, everyone is in it together.

1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders. The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys. The attack, on the morning of Friday August 21, 1863, targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for the Jayhawkers, who were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking plantations in pro-slavery Missouri's western counties. Quantrill said his motivation for the attack was "to plunder, and destroy the town in retaliation for Osceola." That was a reference to the Union's attack on Osceola, Missouri in September 1861, led by Senator James H. Lane. Osceola was plundered, and nine men were given a drumhead court-martial trial and executed. After the attack, Quantrill led his men south to Texas for the winter. By the next year, the raiders had disintegrated as a unified force and could not achieve similar successes. Quantrill died of wounds he received in Kentucky in 1865, with only a few staunch supporters left.