Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Abilene! Get your dose of #eventstobescene and check out these awesome local Holiday 2020 activities. Nov 12 - 14 Holiday Pop Up Shop Three days of holiday shopping with other local vendors, food trucks, and cocktails at The Warehouse, 357 Walnut St. https://www.facebook.com/events/692914901319802 Nov 13 - … [Read more...]
Abilene Influencers: Darrin Black
Background & Bio Born and raised in Oplin, Texas and a 1984 Clyde graduate, Darrin Black’s Big Country roots run deep. After high school, Black jumped straight into the plumbing business and joined the Abilene Fire Department a few years later. Serving the fire department three days a week, and plumbing on his days off, Black worked to gain his master plumber li- cense … [Read more...]
Abilene Fresh
KEEPING IT FRESH Josh Casey founded Abilene Fresh to connect the Abilene community with fresh, locally-grown food. Operations began in 2020 but emerged out of a previous organization, Hug-A- Root Farms. “I needed to eat better in order to stay well, and I developed a passion to help others do the same,” Casey said. “The key was expanding access to fresh, naturally grown … [Read more...]
Christmas Collections: Judy Godfrey’s Nutcrackers
Judy Godfrey, a fine art appraiser and former president of The Grace Museum, has been collecting nutcrackers since 1971. “My first nutcracker was one my mother gave me,” Godfrey said. “It is from the San Francisco Music Box store. He is the traditional Nutcracker Prince standing on top a drum that plays the theme from ‘The Nutcracker.’ Definitely my favorite.“ The … [Read more...]
Life of Pie
By Wendy Kilmer Photography by Beth Dukes Inspiration Lifetime Abilenians Leslie and Cory Bivens had tossed around the idea of expanding their home baked pies beyond their home – maybe food truck or a restaurant – and they already had the name, Life of Pie, picked out. “But, we just thought, ‘no one will spend money on pie,’” Leslie said. In June of 2017, … [Read more...]