by Alice Liles | May 24, 2020 | Bright Lights
After too many postponements and recanted bureaucratic decisions to count, grandson Korben Kron, a 2020 senior at Texico (New Mexico) High School, participated in a COVID-19 style outdoor graduation ceremony Sunday, May 17th, in Clovis, New Mexico, in the Faith...
by Alice Liles | May 8, 2020 | Bright Lights
Once again we are being invaded by those pesky brown moths known collectively as miller bugs; Euxoa auxiliaris, miller moths, if you want to be entomologically and linguistically correct. And that still might not be exactly right because brown moths come in a variety...
by Alice Liles | May 2, 2020 | Bright Lights
While I was researching last week’s story about the Bailey County Cemetery and reading through some of their Association’s newsletters, a page about symbols and coins on headstones caught my eye. Newsletter editor Judy Coffman graciously agreed that this was...
by Alice Liles | Apr 27, 2020 | Bright Lights
An historical marker stands at the entrance to the Bailey County Cemetery stating that Emil and Anna Wellsandt offered a parcel of their land to become a cemetery for the young town of Muleshoe located in Bailey County, Texas. This was during the time of the Spanish...
by Alice Liles | Apr 16, 2020 | Bright Lights
It’s no surprise that schools were one of the first institutions that had to be closed to enforce the social distancing command brought about by COVID-19. Just ask any teacher-school is Social Fun Central for kids, right? But compulsory free education is a law, too,...
by Alice Liles | Apr 13, 2020 | Bright Lights
Had a young woman asked me the other day if I was going to write a book about the virus. “It is history,” she said. She’s right, of course. COVID-19 has already become a part of our history, and I write things about the history of Muleshoe, so perhaps I should cover...
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