Melissa McClain

If You Could Take Your Perfect Modern Home on Permanent Vacation, This Would Be It

By Shelby Skrhak / May 15, 2022 /

Can you tell where this home is located? By the modern architecture, you’d probably say somewhere in Midway Hollow, Kessler Woods, or Bluffview. After all, the sharp lines of contrasting mixed media, that blend of wood, stucco, and masonry that exudes simplicity and luxury — those are the modern custom homes you see going up…

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Pronounced Wox or Wax? This Suburb Sunday Takes Us to Waxahachie

By Shelby Skrhak / June 23, 2019 /

A Wichita Falls radio station once polled some New Yorkers, asking them to pronounce difficult Texas city names. When it came to Waxahachie, they were truly puzzled. (For the record, it’s pronounced wox-a-hatch-e, not wax-a-hatch-e.) Nicknamed the Crape Myrtle Capital of Texas, Waxahachie was founded in August 1850 as the seat of the newly established Ellis…

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