Small Town Tour

KKYR's Small Town Tour introduces the people, places and events that demonstrate how Americans live large in some of our tiniest communities.

Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Excelsior House is the oldest hotel in East Texas according to the National Register of Historic Places. Since it opened in the 1850s, it has welcomed some of history’s biggest names through its doors: Ulysses S. Grant, Oscar Wilde, Rutherford B. Hayes and Lady Bird Johnson. They all checked in. But does every guest who visits ultimately check out?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Before I even visited Jefferson, I heard strange reports about what some call the most haunted town in Texas. Many of the ghost stories I heard, however, originate at one of the town’s oldest structures, the Jefferson Hotel.
Nash Elementary School Creates a Culture of Reading
Nash Elementary School Creates a Culture of Reading
Nash Elementary School Creates a Culture of Reading
Most parents and teachers realize that readers are taught rather than born. It isn’t often that you’ll see a child pick up a book on his own when there are so many other activities that he could be doing. That’s why the faculty at Nash Elementary is doing something to change the way students view books.

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