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Test Your Trivia Here EATS & TREATS: September 2011 A GUIDE TO FOOD & FUN HOW MANY AGGIE TEAMS WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 2010? NAME 5 TEXAS A&M ATHLETES WHAT IS THE OLDEST BUSINESS WHO NOW HAVE PRO SPORTS CAREERS ESTABLISHMENT IN COLLEGE STATION? TEST YOUR B RAZ OS VALLEY TRIVIA HERE September 2011 INSITE 1 2 INSITE September 2011 20 CONTENTS 5 MAKINGHISTORY Headed to the White House New exhibit shows what it takes to become President by Tessa K. Moore 7 LIFESTYLE Wanted: Texas Hospitality Families can share much with Aggies far from home by Tessa K. Moore 9 COMMUNITYOUTREACH A Legacy of Love Bubba Moore Memorial Group keeps the giving spirit alive by Megan Roiz INSITE Magazine is published monthly by Insite 11 GETINVOLVED Printing & Graphic Services, 123 E. Wm. J. Bryan Pkwy., Everyone Needs a Buddy Bryan, Texas 77803. (979) Annual walk raises more than just funds 823-5567 www.insitegroup. by Caroline Ward com Volume 28, Number 5. Publisher/Editor: Angelique Gammon; Account Executive: 12 ARTSSPOTLIGHT Myron King; Graphic Wanted: Dramatis Personae Designers: Alida Bedard; Karen Green. Editorial Or, How to get your Glee on around the Brazos Valley Interns: Tessa K. Moore, by Caroline Ward Megan Roiz, Caroline Ward; INSITE Magazine is a division of The Insite Group, LP. 15 DAYTRIP Reproduction of any part Visit Houston without written permission Find the metro spots that only locals know of the publisher is prohibited. Insite Printing & Graphic Services Managing Partners: 19 MUSICSCENE Kyle DeWitt, Angelique Beyond Price Gammon, Greg Gammon. Chamber concerts always world class, always free General Manager: Carl Dixon; Pre-Press Manager: Mari by Paul Parish Brown; Office Manager: Wendy Seward; Sales & Customer Service: Molly 20 QUIZTIME Barton; Candi Burling; Janice Feeling Trivial? Hellman; Manda Jackson; Test your Brazos Valley Trivia IQ Marie Lindley; Barbara by Tessa K. Moore, Megan Roiz and Caroline Ward Wyss; Production: Stephen Beatty; Troy Cahill, Norris Carnes; Marilyn Carey; Don Coburn; Jaimie Colwell; Ricky Conchola; Byron Lee; Margie Lowry; Doug Madison; Arthur Maldonado; Brandon Prouse; Departments Frank Ramirez; Jimmy Welch; Stephen Woodruff. PUBLISHER’SDESK I am Curious (Yellow) page 4 WHAT’SHAPPENING Brazos Valley events page 6 EATS & TREATS Food & fun guide page 31 September 2011 INSITE 3 PUbLIShER’SDESK I AM A TRIVIAL PERSON, and I’m okay with that. At the height of the Trivial Pursuit craze,* our family bought several of the boxed games since we were forever arriving at family gatherings having left ours behind. With a bit o’ luck and some excellent partners, I don’t think I’ve ever lost a trivia game, though the Sports & Leisure category remains my Achilles** and the Arts & Literature category my coup de grace.*** The nice thing about being a trivial person is having random facts at your fingertips when someone idly wonders where the phrase “I Am Curious (Yellow)”**** comes from, which actually came up in a conversation last month. The useless thing about being a trivial person is that Google’s speed***** makes us obsolete as well as trivial. I’m not worried. My wireless brain connection still usually manages to get signal even in those places where Google will never get a signal.****** Others of a trivial nature will recall Insite’s original Trivia issue in August 1991, when we relied on landline telephones, locals with long memories, and especially Bryan reference librarian Clara Mounce to put the issue together. Newcomers will note the same Bryan library is now named for Clara Mounce.******* I should point out I would never ask Mounce to join in a game of trivia unless she agreed, in advance, to play on my team. Mounce would not be vexed by this piece of trivia: In what month and year was the date on the cover of Insite magazine accidentally repeated?******** She called in consternation because my error messed up the filing of the periodicals. My apologies again, Ms. Mounce. You really are my hero. – angelique Gammon *Popularity peaked in 1984 when 20 million games were sold that year. ** An expression of a person’s area of weakness, derived from a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD. ***French, literally, ‘stroke of mercy.’ ****1967 Swedish film originally seized by U.S. customs when it was imported, banned by several states and the subject of court battle over charges of obscenity for its explicit discussion of sexual identity and politics. *****Google Fiber: 151.68Mb/s download; 92.79Mb/s upload; posted 8-11-11, by a Redditor named The Team ******Which, as far as I can tell, is … nowhere. *******The Bryan Public Library was renamed the Clara B. Mounce Public Library in 2010. Mounce retired in December 2009 after serving as a librarian for Bryan and College Station for more than 30 years and was an unerring source of fact checking and reference help in the pre-Google years of Insite Magazine publishing. ********July 1990. Chat, comment, contact @ www.insitebrazosvalley.com Angelique Gammon, Publisher [email protected] Insite Magazine 4 INSITE September 2011 MAKINGHISTORY by Tessa K. Moore what it’s really like to be HEADED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ust in time for the 2012 election, and values it represents, says Susanne Cox, “Headed to the White House,” a new curator of the George Bush Presidential Jexhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Library and Museum will help current and “It’s objective is to enlighten the visitor to future voters understand what it really takes the entire process of running for president, to become president. and to promote discussion and debate about “I think people will be able to gain more the current presidential campaign,” says Cox, of an appreciation for current and past “and what better place to do so than at a presidents if they are able to understand presidential library?” what they went through to get the position,” The exhibit allows visitors try out many of says Public Relations Director Will King. the roles involved in running a presidential While the George Bush Presidential Library campaign. You not only get to see what it’s and Museum tells the story of the life of like to be a presidential candidate, you can President George H.W. Bush, by using his run your own campaign, create your own experiences as a candidate as a teaching tool, election news story, and learn how to really this exhibit’s aim is to increase awareness of get involved in the political process – even if IF YOU GO the rights and responsibilities of all citizens. you’re too young to vote, says King. “Headed to the White House” puts visitors in The George Bush Presidential Library and By creating an exhibit with hands- the candidate’s shoes and walks them down Museum is open Monday through Saturday the long road to the presidency. on activities and total immersion in the from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Sunday from The new exhibit opens September 1 as campaign process, the library gives patrons 12 noon until 5 p.m. a broader understanding of the behind- part of a traveling exhibit from the National Admission is free to all Texas A&M Constitution Center in Philadelphia and will the-scenes action. Knowledge is power, and University System and Blinn College remain at the Bush Library and Museum King says this new exhibit is an essential students, $7 for adults, $6 for senior through July 29, 2012. The National part of the library’s commitment to civic citizens, $3 for children ages 6 to 17, and Constitution Center is a nonpartisan, literacy. From the first primaries through the free for children under 6 years old. For special rates, group tours and other exhibit nonprofit organization with the goal of presidential inauguration, “Headed to the information, visit bushlibrary.tamu.edu. increasing public understanding of the White House” will show you the ins and outs United States Constitution and the ideas of the presidential race from the inside out. i September 2011 INSITE 5 WHAT’SHAPPENING compiled by the Insite staff UPCOMING EVENT PLANNER September 8, Garrison keillor’s Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. kids. For more information visit what life was like for a child in information about the banquet A Prairie Home Companion Admission is $6. The show includes BrazosCountyExpo.com. the mid-19th century during the and SOS Ministries, visit www. Summer Love Tour 2011 a judged show, vendor mall, silent interactive, hands-on program saveoutstreetsministries.org. will perform Garrison keillor’s auction, quilt appraisals, raffle quilt September 24 from 7:30 p.m. to ‘childhood in early Texas’ at the seasoned live variety show and door prizes. 10 p.m., the All Aggie Alumni Washington-on-the-Brazos State September 28 through October at Rudder Auditorium on the Rodeo will be held in the North Historic Site in Washington, and 1, visit the 43rd Annual Round Texas A&M campus. For more September 8-10, the Creative Arena of the Brazos County Expo. experience life on an 1850’s Texas Top Fall Antiques Fair, held information, visit http://opas. Memories Quilt Guild will hold Tickets will be available at the farm. Reservations are required by in the Red Barn and Carmine tamu.edu/, or to purchase tickets its 25th annual quilt show gate. For more information, visit calling (936) 878-2461, Ext. 236, or Dance Hall, tent at the Big Red by phone, call the MSC Box Office featuring more than 100 quilts at BrazosCountyExpo.com. visiting www.starmuseum.org. Bard and the Continental Tent. at (979) 845-1234. the Caldwell Civic Center on Hwy.
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