Kaleidoscope Park will welcome the community to its Taste of Texas on Saturday, June 20, as part of its Texas Traditions series. This special evening is presented by the Collin County Business Alliance (CCBA) and is highlighted as a featured event of the Collin County Celebrates initiative, a celebration of regional leadership and civic spirit. The event will take place from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Kaleidoscope Park, located at 6635 Warren Parkway in Frisco, in the Performance Lawn and is free and open to the public.

Physicians of the Grayson County Medical Society (CMS) invite community members of all ages to participate in its Walk with a Doc event on Saturday, June 20, 2026 – Father’s Day weekend – at the Texoma Health Foundation Park. As families gather to celebrate the dad in their lives this weekend, Grayson CMS encourages community members to join the June walk and invest in their health together.

Myrtle Hancock was the first woman to register to vote in Fannin County. She became a deputy county clerk in 1909. She studied law by correspondence through the University of Texas at Austin and passed the Texas Bar in 1919, the first female attorney in Fannin County and North Texas.

Bois d’Arc chapter members Lauri Blake and Christine Miller at work on the project at Bonham State Park. Bois d’Arc chapter members of Texas Master Naturalist (“TMN”) are participating in Texas Nature Trackers acoustic bat monitoring project in Fannin County. This project is part of Texas Nature Trackers, a citizen-science program of Texas Parks and Wildlife. photo by Debra Jones

We have some amazing local talent kicking off the show for us at 7:00 p.m. with Taylor Walker, and headliner, Roger Creager, will take the stage around 7:30 p.m.! You’re welcome to pack a cooler with food and drinks or just show up and enjoy the delicious food trucks on-site.

1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as candidate for US senator. Lincoln's remarks in Springfield depict the danger of slavery-based disunion, and it rallied Republicans across the North. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, the speech became one of the best-known of his career. It begins with the following words, which became the best-known passage of the speech: "A house divided against itself, cannot stand (quoting Mark 3:25). I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new – North as well as South."