The next meeting of the Linden City Council is scheduled for Monday, May 9th, starting at 6:00 pm at the Mary Daughety Senior Citizens Center located at 507 South Kaufman in Linden. In February, the City filed a “Letter of Intent” for the 2017 Texas Main Street Program. It is expected that the Council will make a decision at this meeting on whether or not to proceed with Linden’s formal application for designation as a Texas Main Street City.
The Linden Heritage Foundation has been co-sponsoring workshops with the City to help local business/property owners understand the significant advantages of participation in the nationally acclaimed Texas Main Street Program. The second workshop will be held Thursday, May 5th, from 1:30 to 3 pm in Fellowship Hall of the Linden United Methodist Church. More information is available at http://lindenheritage.org/texas-main-street-linden-reimagined/.
We hope that you will be able to attend to show support for Linden becoming a Texas Main Street City.
The Cass County Sun(Vol. 141 No. 10) published an article on Linden 2025 in the March 9, 2016 edition of the paper. SamHigdon, President of the Linden Heritage Foundation, spoke in support of the plan at a public forum held on March 3rd. Ruth Halleck and Catherine Knapp officially represented the Foundation on the Linden 2025 Committee. Other members of the Foundation who served on the Committee were Carla Surratt, Jeanie Stevens, and Kay Stephens.
Barbara Teachey was elected to the Linden Heritage Foundation’s Board of Directors in January 2016 for a 2-year term. With encouragement from Joe B. Lovelace, she agreed to share an exciting time in her life after entering the “Don Henley Walden Woods Sweepstakes” sponsored by chideo.com in 2014. Barbara won a prize package consisting of a two-day trip to Boston to attend the Walden Woods 2014 Global Environmental Awards dinner/reception, a “meet and greet” with Don Henley, awards presentation, and a benefit concert by the Eagles. The event took place on September 16, 2014 at the Wang Theater. Her memories of the event follow.
The Walden Woods Project is a nonprofit organization founded by Don Henley that is committed to “preserving the land, literature, and legacy of Henry David Thoreau through conservation, education, research and advocacy.” The Project uses the land it has protected in Walden Woods to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility, both cornerstones of Thoreau’s philosophy.
Robert Redford, Jerry and Barbara Teachey, and Don Henley (2014)
In 2014 my husband, Jerry, and I had the honor of attending the Walden Woods Global Environmental Awards dinner/reception at which Mr. Robert Redford received the Global Leadership Award. He is an ardent conservationist and environmentalist; and a man who stands for social responsibility and political involvement, as well as an artist and businessman who is a staunch supporter of uncompromised creative expression. Mr. Redford’s life-long passion for nature and issues of justice has resulted in him being widely acknowledged as a highly effective and dedicated political and environmental activist.
I have been an Eagles fan for many years; and found from my experience with the Walden Woods Project, that Don had a high school teacher, Margaret Lovelace, in Linden, Texas who introduced him to the writings of Thoreau and Emerson. He developed an early appreciation for the natural world that evolved into a lifelong commitment to the preservation of open space and wetlands, and environmental advocacy on a wide range of issues.
In 1989, while watching the news on CNN, Don learned of two major commercial development threats to historic Walden Woods. He immediately offered support to a local grassroots organization in Concord, MA that was coordinating the opposition to a proposed office park and condominiums in Walden Woods. Mr. Henley founded the Walden Woods Project in 1992; and is also the Founder and Chairman of the Caddo Lake Institute in Northeast Texas. The Institute is a nonprofit scientific and educational corporation with the mission of “protecting the ecological, cultural and economic integrity of Caddo Lake, its associated wetlands and watershed.”
Barbara and Jerry Teachey live in Richmond, Virginia. Barbara visited Linden in September of 2015 with several other members of theDon Henley Appreciation Group. She is planning a return trip for June of 2016.
2016 Texas’ Most Endangered Places Awards Presentation in Austin, Texas on February 18, 2016.
Linden Heritage FoundationSecretary John Knapp (bottom right in blue shirt) holding photo of Linden’s 1939 Firehouse at announcement of Preservation Texas’ 2016 Most Endangered Places awards. Photo by Anne Wheat from tweet posted by Texas Historical Commission.
The next meeting of the Linden City Council is scheduled for Monday, May 9th, starting at 6:00 pm at the Mary Daughety Senior Citizens Center located at 507 South Kaufman in Linden. In February, the City filed a “Letter of Intent” for the 2017 Texas Main Street Program. It is expected that the Council will make a decision at this meeting on whether or not to proceed with Linden’s formal application for designation as a Texas Main Street City.
