LAKE HIGHLANDS ADVOCATE VOL. 30 NO. 9
PROFILE
8 Dr. Rachael Haverland
DINING
16 Haute Sweets
FEATURES
12 The flower farm
20 White Rock’s bald eagles
24 Kathy Stewart
27 Constructive criticism
28 The hamlet of Audelia
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It’s one of the most painful chronic illnesses in the world, sneakily causing debilitating pain for millions of women. You can almost never see it on an ultrasound or other scans. It often takes 10 years for a woman to get diagnosed with it, and even longer, if ever, to receive treatment. And even though it’s estimated that one in eight women will be diagnosed with the condition, few doctors know how to diagnose it. Even fewer can effectively treat it. Though not considered a fatal condition, the pain felt from endometriosis is known to greatly impact quality of life, and often leads to mental health struggles when left untreated.
One of these rare doctors is Rachael Haverland, a pelvic surgeon and endometriosis specialist at Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine in the Preston Hollow area.
“I always knew I wanted to be involved in women’s health. From the very beginning, when I went to med school, I just knew that was my calling,” Haverland says. “I felt very comfortable in the space.”
While in her obstetrics and gynecology residency, Haverland learned a lot about obstetrics — the field of study concerning
pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care — but found that other women’s health issues were not focused upon as much.
“I felt like it was a space that was very underserved and I felt like I could treat people surgically and through other modalities rather than just focusing on pregnancy,” she says.
Haverland then did a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic under Javier Magrina, a former oncologist who is known as a pioneer for endometriosis surgery, demonstrating that removing the disease rather than burning it delivered better outcomes.
“It was so rewarding as I got into it,” Haverland says. “I realized that my job was actually very easy. I just listen and believe women and believe their symptoms and then we come up with a treatment plan together.”
Haverland met her now-husband in medical school, got married one week after graduating and the pair moved to Phoenix together for their respective residencies — Rachael’s in obstetrics and gynecology and Joshua’s in pediatrics.
The Haverlands live in the White Rock Valley with their three sons, aged 6, 3 and 1½, where they spend their weekends playing
soccer and enjoying the outdoor amenities that the area has to offer.
“I always dreamed of having this strong daughter that I could raise to be independent,” Haverland says. “Now, I just do that through my work and I’m going to teach my boys how to treat women with respect … When everybody is advocating for the same purpose and the same cause, whether men or women, you get better outcomes when everybody helps.”
Endometriosis is a disease in (mostly) women where cells similar to those growing inside the lining of the uterus (endometrium) grow outside of the uterus on other organs.
Usually, these cells will grow on pelvic organs such as the bladder, outside of the uterus or the colon, but endometriosis has been found on nearly every organ in the body. These cells cause chronic inflammation, which causes pain, and the longer the cells are there, the more that they grow and the more permanent damage is caused to the surrounding nerves and muscles.
“A lot of endometriosis can be genetic,” she says. “There’s a strong propensity with first degree relatives or second-degree relatives to have endometriosis and usually women that have a genetic predisposition are diagnosed with more aggressive disease and more advanced disease because it’s more aggressive.”
While research on fertility with endometriosis has been more extensively studied, endometriosis can reduce the likelihood of becoming pregnant by up to 50%, according to Massachusetts General Hospital.
“One of my goals in my career is to try to advocate for women and endometriosis and pelvic pain and hopefully decrease that time where you can come up with symptoms and get a diagnosis and ultimately treatment,” Haverland says. “The younger we can treat endometriosis, the better your outcomes are.”
Endometriosis is “vastly underdiagnosed,” and about one in eight women are diagnosed in their lifetime.
According to Haverland, there are many factors contributing to underdiagnosis, like a lack of knowledgeable doctors, stigma surrounding discussing periods and women’s health and absence of research on the disease in general.
“Knowledge is power,” Haverland says. “We can bring this issue to the forefront and let people know that their symptoms are not normal … and when people talk about it, it’s OK to give them support and validate their symptoms. The more that we do that, the more women understand what’s normal and what’s not normal and the quicker that we’re going to be able to get to the point where more people have access and more people have quality care for endometriosis and treatment.”
In a 2023 qualitative review of doctors and patients’ knowledge of endometriosis, many doctors reported that they hadn’t learned about the disease at all or that it was only briefly mentioned in medical school. Others said that women’s health wasn’t a required curriculum when they were training.
Awareness of the disease has increased vastly in the last five years, according to a recent UCLA Health article, in part by growing discussions among those diagnosed in online communities.
Many in the online community have focused on spreading the mantra, “periods are not supposed to be painful,” as painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea, is a key symptom to endometriosis.
“Most doctors tell patients that painful periods are normal, that painful periods are something that all women deal with and that some people just have a lower pain tolerance,” TikTok creator @endometriosisem said in a post earlier this year. “You know your body best, don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.”
“There’s a little bit of patriarchy hidden in medicine,” Haverland says. “[There is a belief that] women are more likely to be histrionic and have anxiety. There is an emotional component associated with endometriosis, but it’s more related to when you’re in chronic pain, how could it not affect you emotionally? … If you just treat anxiety or depression and you don’t treat the underlying etiology, you’re not going to get any better.”
Haverland joined the Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) team in 2022. PRM has 14 locations across nine states, with Texas offices in Dallas and Houston.
“They have a different way that they address and evaluate pelvic pain, so they use nonnarcotic options for pain relief,” Haverland says. “[We are] downregulating what we call the central sensitization of pain. When your nerves have been in pain for years and years, all they know is to send pain signals to your brain, so we’re trying to reset that and let the nerves heal.”
specialists skilled in the most up-to-date treatment options.
One hundred specialists. And more than six million women with the condition.
“It’s really unfortunate, but with fellowships becoming more prevalent, hopefully we’ll get more people that really dive into the endometriosis space, because it is so needed,” Haverland says. “If it’s one in eight women, it’s very common and more people need help.”
“It’s a specialty that is niche in this space where I get to do what I love and take care of a population where I feel really rewarded,” Haverland says. “It’s a very cool job and I love coming to work every day … I feel humbled and very honored.”
The clinics specialize in office-based pelvic pain treatment through direct treatment of inflamed pelvic nerves and spastic pelvic muscles to reduce symptoms in conditions in men and women, including endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory diseases, erectile dysfunction and hernias.
Haverland is joined by pelvic pain specialists Rucha Kapadia and Myesha Banks and integrative nutritional health coach Monique Bogni at PRM’s Dallas location, aiming to provide comprehensive care in reducing and eliminating pelvic pain.
Even with places like Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine cropping up all over the country, the Endometriosis Foundation of America finds that out of over 40,000 OB/GYNs in the United States, there are only about 100 endometriosis
To guide those who suspect that they have the condition, resources like Nancy’s Nook, an online learning library centered around the latest endometriosis research, are growing in members. Nancy’s Nook’s Facebook group itself has over 200,000 members worldwide.
Here, many women share their experience with Haverland and other Nook-verified experts and note the difference in their quality of life after getting diagnosed and having surgery to remove the endometriosis itself. Haverland often shares research and images from surgery with the group.
Aside from patient care, Haverland has participated in research that has helped define standards of care in the field with several published works in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology on pelvic reconstruction, deep infiltrating endometriosis, longitudinal vaginal septum and practices to mitigate the opioid epidemic, among articles in other journals.
On top of educating and researching standards of practice for other doctors, Haverland attends forums and conferences like The Endometriosis Summit and works with nonprofits like The Endo Forward Foundation.
She also frequently posts to online forums regarding various topics related to the disease, including YouTube videos on Pelvic Rehabilitation’s YouTube channel answering frequently asked questions to educate the public.
“There’s a lot of boundaries to care right now for women, but hopefully, as we talk more about endometriosis, advocate for more treatment options and for more affordable options, more people will be able to get treatment easier.”
Freshly Cut Stems is an oasis less than an hour away
Past Plano, Allen, McKinney and even Anna, you’ll find Van Alstyne. It’s still a small town in many aspects. Older homes sit shaded by decades-old trees on large lots, even as the cul-de-sacs and cookie cutters slowly creep in. The streets get a little narrower, and local businesses abound.
Driving down Van Alstyne Parkway, it is certainly possible to pass Children’s Home Healthcare thinking it’s just a collection of houses-turned workspaces on an amply-sized plot of land. But turn in, drive down the short gravel driveway, and suddenly it’s there.
Rising out of the grass, row after row of sunflowers and almost every shade of zinnia illuminate Freshly Cut Stems’ fields, teeming with hummingbirds and butterflies. But that’s just what was there when we visited — it’s constantly evolving.
“You can come in July and then you can come a month or two later and you’re gonna have a different experience every time.” says owner Jennifer Hadfield. “Because we’re constantly growing different flowers, some flowers are fading, some are coming in.”
Launched earlier last year, Lochwood neighbor Hadfield has turned extra space on her family business’s property into a full-on farm. She supplies local florists in Lake Highlands, delivers hand-picked bouquets from the farm and brings her “flower bar” to local events and private parties.
But the main draw is U-Pick, added earlier this year.
For $30, customers can come to Van Alstyne and grab a bucket, gloves and snippers. Hadfield gives a short tutorial on how to properly cut and trim, then she lets them loose. The price of admission includes around 25-30 stems of the customer’s choosing, although more can be picked for an additional price. Afterwards, Hadfield helps customers assemble their bouquets, and sends them on their way.
“I think if you are the type of person who likes to go to the Arboretum, this is the place for you,” Hadfield says. “And you get to actually pick the flowers whereas the Arboretum, you’re just looking at what’s going on, what they’ve planted, so my hope is to give them an experience.”
She started off primarily delivering bouquets. But customers were curious about the mysterious farm up north.
“When I would deliver the bouquets, everyone would always be like, can people come visit your farm?” Hadfield says. “They’re always interested in visiting a farm. So I think adding the U-Pick is something interesting for people to explore.”
She isn’t from an agricultural background, but for her, planting has been passed down. Hadfield’s mother always kept a garden wherever they lived, she says.
“I always have loved gardens,” she says. “And when I was little and we would go visit my grandparents, my sister and I would always go out and cut little wildflower bouquets for my grandmother, and we always loved looking at other people’s gardens.”
After she met her husband, who she describes as having a green thumb, she reignited her love for gardening in her backyard. Delving deeper and deeper into the hobby, she made a connection.
“I think the flowers really came in after I started growing my own garden,” she says.
“We had this land up here, and my dad didn’t really know what to do with the land, because we have the business in the front, and then the lots are so long in the back, and I just kind of had an idea, like, why don’t we try doing a flower farm? It’s not really too much of an initial cost, we can just kind of try it in that area, and we did, and I really liked it.”
As she’s navigated the process that comes with farming for the first time,
she says she’s “always learning.” She’s begun planning out her plantings months in advance. Taking the seasons into account, she tries to schedule blooms with precision — although preciseness can often mean approximation in her business, especially when severe weather enters the mix.
After more than a year in the business, she says she’s connected with other area farmers to hone her craft.
“I have flower farmer friends now that are in the area that I’m always kind of throwing ideas, bouncing ideas off of,” Hadfield says. “We all help each other out. I think it’s a really great community of people who really enjoy farming.”
You might ask, why drive almost an hour to pick bulbs or go to the trouble of specially requesting a bouquet delivery when convenient grocery stores are just down the street?
“It’s kind of the same thing as going to a farmers market,” she says, “This is going to appeal to people who would rather buy their vegetables and appreciate the people.”
“I feel like the other thing that happens when people buy fresh flowers, or local flowers is, they’re really going to appreciate it after they buy the bouquet, a lot of the flowers will kind of continue moving and growing. Whereas, I feel like when you’re buying flowers from a grocery store, the day you buy those flowers is going to be the best day that that flower has, it’s not going to get any better than that.”
Freshly Cut Stems emphasizes the importance of buying local. Sustainability too. Hadfield says she stays aways from plastics and doesn’t use chemicals. Her blooms go directly to florists or her customers, eliminating the waste and carbon footprint that comes with what you might see in stores.
“I encourage people, when they come to do the U-Pick, to bring their own vase so that we don’t have to reuse something,” she says. “I think that it’s important to make sure that you’re not wasteful or using things that you don’t need to use.”
With fall just around the corner, she’s currently planning out her spring blooms. She says she’s looking into lesser-known varieties to offer along with crowd favorites.
If you can’t make the trek up US-75, no worries, she says. There’s a local spot that can save neighbors the drive.
“If people aren’t able to come up to the farm they should visit Lake Highlands Flowers,” Hadfield says. “Because that is a place where we sell our flowers, so they can always
go in and request the local flowers. I really enjoy having a relationship with that florist. And they’re right there in the neighborhood.”
Meanwhile, she will continue driving close to an hour several days a week to her vibrant oasis. Surrounded by a myriad of bright hues mixed in with Grayson County brush, Hadfield says the reactions to her products can be as rewarding as the flowers themselves.
“I personally love delivering flowers,” she says. “I mean, you’re giving flowers to someone, it makes them happy, even when people come to the farm. I’m like ‘Here, I’m done with your bouquet’ and they’re like ‘Wow this is great.’ It makes them happy, and I think that’s important.”
Nearly a decade of of serving French macarons to Lake Highlands
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by HALEY HILL
HAUTE SWEETS owner Tida Pichakron was always with her mother in the kitchen. Growing up in New Orleans surrounded by King Cakes, all she knew how to make was rice in a rice cooker while her parents were at work.
While she eventually progressed to preparing full-on dinners for her family, she hadn’t necessarily started her baking journey yet.
That came later.
Pichakron studied business at Texas A&M University. She worked in the corporate world for a few years, but had doubts about her career trajectory. She had a background in cooking and baking had become an interest, so she took a basic culinary class at Collin College.
“Of course my boss, had he known what I was gonna do, he was like, ‘I would never have let you take that class,’” Pichakron says. “But then I decided to quit my job at that point. So a little after five years of being with that company, I left.”
She enrolled in a 30-week pastry program at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. A career changer and one of the older students in the class, she admits there were growing pains. However, she soon found herself staging at the nearby Auberge de Soleil restaraunt, and before long, she had graduated and was working in Downtown Dallas at The Adolphus.
Her new-found career would eventually lead her to Las Vegas, helping to open up the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel, now the Waldorf Astoria. It was there she met her eventual business partner and established pastry chef Gianni Santin.
“It was through him and just being around him,” she says. “He’s like, ‘let’s do it’. He had come from Dallas as well. So that’s when he was just like ‘we could totally do something.’ And I said, ‘sure, why not.’ I think if you think about it too much, then you’re gonna talk yourself out of it.”
She and Santin originally operated out of a Trinity Groves events kitchen. Using their industry connections to find clients for the largely-wholesale business, the pair supplied pastries for events, hotels and area restaurants. Moving into its current location in 2015, Haute Sweets was making waves for its French-style macarons.
“That’s definitely how we broke into the markets,” Pichakron says. “Because that’s where we started with farmers markets and at the time when we came onto the scene per se, French macarons were not very popular in Dallas. At the time, I think there were only a few of us. Bisou Bisou and Joy Macarons were pretty much the only ones really doing a good style macaron in Dallas … That’s how we were able to break into the market.”
Close to a decade later, Santin is retired in Canada, business has largely shifted towards retail post-COVID, and Haute Sweets has opened up a second location in Far North Dallas. One thing that hasn’t changed? Macarons are still the number one seller, and Pichakron doesn’t exactly hide which pastry is her favorite.
“When people ask me what’s my favorite thing to make, I say it’s macarons because we make a very good French macaron. And I take pride in the fact that they’re very consistent and they’re difficult to make. Ask anyone who’s ever learned how to make them, they’re never going to make them again.”
She says what makes her’s so scrumptious is that they have plenty of filling — where the flavor comes from. Made with ganache, buttercream or jam filled between two brightly colored pastry shells, the macaron is a well-established confection. Flavors often include pistachio, berries or chocolate. Haute Sweets has the classics, but Pichakron experiments with flavors such as PB&J and salted caramel.
“Sometimes it’s just because I have an ingredient on hand and I’m like, ‘Okay, can we use this?’”
She recently incorporated black sesame, using it to create a black macaron to complete Haute Sweets’ Olympic Ring set.
“It’s a very different flavor and it went really well,” she says.
Besides macarons, the bakery sells cookies, cupcakes, tarts and cakes. Pichakron also sells a treat which she says is an improved version of an American classic.
“Our oatmeal cream pie is better than Little Debbie,” she says. “We were doing a meal train for a chef friend of mine … And she’s like ‘where’s the oatmeal cream pie’. I was like, ‘damn, no, sorry’ so she was like ‘really? I’ve been looking forward to that.’ But the oatmeal cream pies are really good.”
Her biggest goals include getting the oatmeal cream pies into a supermarket or grocery store, and shipping her macarons — as long as they aren’t crushed in transit.
Visitors at the Lake Highlands location will notice a large window as they enter, giving them a glimpse behind the scenes in Haute Sweets’ pastry kitchen.
“I love seeing the kids hop up on the chair,” she says, “If we’re right at that mixer right in front of the window and they’re looking, we wave to them. I love that. I love for them to see what’s going on.”
Those kinds of interactions are why Pichakron opens her store every day.
“It brings a smile to a lot of people’s faces and that’s the humane side of it,” she says. “You create a product, you see the smile on someone’s face or the joy that it brings. That’s why you do what you do.”
Haute Sweets Patisserie 10230 E Northwest Highway, hautesweetspatisserie.com, 214.856.0166
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Nature Photography by
NICK DIGENNARO
Portrait by LAUREN ALLEN
In 2021, the North Texas housing market was booming and thousands of people and families moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
As it turned out, a pair of bald eagles had similar ideas.
The male and female pair were first sighted near White Rock Lake in late 2021. Their first attempt at a nest was located near Sunset Bay, close to Winfrey Point.
But, as many young potential homeowners experience, getting in the right home can be a difficult task. The first nest didn’t hold up long, and just when the eagles finally seemed to find a home in an abandoned red-tailed hawk nest in Lake Highlands Park, a gust of straight line winds knocked it out of the tree.
Remnants of an egg were found close to the debris, and mournful neighbors-turned-enthusiasts put together an impromptu memorial.
Nick and Nora — named after the fictional characters Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s 1934 novel The Thin Man — eventually returned to Lake Highlands Park. With courtship behavior observed close to Valentine’s Day this year, fans, photographers, city wildlife staff and neighbors alike waited with bated breaths to see if the couple would finally become parents.
In late March, it became clear that something was happening in their nest.
“That was the first time that one of our great citizens was able to get a photograph of it,” says Chris Morris, an urban biologist with Dallas Parks and
Recreation. “And one of the other chicks had popped its head out. And then later that week, probably like the seventh of April, someone saw two different movements in the nest. And I think another person was able to get two different heads. So that’s how we knew that we had two chicks.”
Nick and Nora had finally done it. After a series of failed nests and shattered eggs, it seemed as though the young couple could finally raise a few eaglets. Things ran smoothly, and the two hatchlings were seen hopping around.
Then Memorial Day happened.
Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds battered North Texas. Most of their nest — once again — was blown out of the Giant American Sycamore it was nestled in. While the two adult eagles had been strong enough to fly away, there was no sign of the eaglets. It seemed as though Nick and Nora’s stint as parents had yet again met a tragic ending.
Bald eagles, the national symbol of the United States of America, have made tremendous strides since facing extinction in the 20th Century.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, as a result of pesticides, habitat loss and hunting, only 417 nesting pairs were known to exist in 1963. Conservation efforts have been largely successful and bald eagles were recently reclassified from endangered to least concern. However, they are still protected by both the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which makes killing, selling or otherwise harming the eagles a federal crime punishable by jail time or large fines.
As populations have recovered, bald eagle sightings at White Rock Lake are not unprecedented. Typically spotted in one-off instances during the winter, the lake provides ample feeding opportunities for birds of prey.
“White Rock Lake is a pretty decent ecosystem,” Morris says. “It’s just large enough to have several different species of fish, we’ve got all different kinds of wildlife from the snakes, turtles, multiple different waterfowl. The general area also supports several different other raptor species, from red shoulders, red tails, there are several different owl species all throughout there. So there is a large amount of food available.”
What is a little less common, however, is that Nick and Nora have made the urban area their home. Morris says that while it may be rare to see eagles living this close to a city, White Rock Lake Park provides plenty of tree cover and food sources to sustain them, with fish being their staple.
Bald eagles are mostly monogamous, meaning that Nick and Nora have a good chance to remain together for the rest of their lives. To tell which is which, it may be helpful to see them next to each other.
“The females are going to be the larger,” Morris says. “And then one of the things is they have a little bit more of a length in their shoulder wingspan. So definitely when they’re sitting, and if you can see them sitting side by side and stuff like that. The female will be much broader.”
Without that side-by-side comparison, it can be difficult for an untrained eye to spot differences between a male and female.
If neighbors encounter the eagles, Morris says it’s perfectly okay to snap a photo but to avoid loud noises and keep pets on leashes.
Nick DiGennaro typically tries to get to Sunset Bay while it’s still pretty dark, but that’s when there’s the most to see.
“I like to get there early though just to kind of get a feel,” DiGennaro says. “You know, that time before dawn is just so magical. So I try to get down there at 6:30, and even if they’re not there I just kind of get a feeling for what’s about to take place or not.”
DiGennaro has photographed the eagles since 2021, and is one of the most dedicated photographers following them. He specializes in photographing birds, saying as subjects, other animals don’t interest him nearly as much.
“It’s something about the flight and just the gorgeous nature of the birds, which I try to portray in the shots,” he says. “And technology actually enables you to do that.”
He says wildlife photography is unique among photography disciplines. For him, while technical knowledge is important, it is crucial to have an understanding of the fauna being photographed. That way, a photographer can become more predictive and proactive in shooting.
One of the most noticeable aspects of Nick and Nora’s time at White Rock Lake: the community of photographers and enthusiasts which has formed around the birds. A Facebook group called “White Rock Lake! thats my hood” which is mostly dedicated to sharing photos of its namesakes’ flora and fauna, especially the eagles, has over eight thousand members. Photographers keep in touch and compare notes.
“It’s amazing. It’s really such a nice group,” DiGennaro says. “It’s really great. The photographers, I didn’t know most of the early ones. But now I get messages every day.”
Another photographer, Mark Fletcher, says that ever since he first
started shooting the eagles, the community has only grown closer.
“I think everybody who is a bird photographer there, they made the eagles the photograph subject of choice.” Fletcher says. “And so all of us would be there every day, and we all kind of bonded and became a group of friends throughout the years.”
“Everybody knows everybody. Just last week, I think there were like 20-25 photographers that were there at Sunset Bay on the dock. We’re at a stage right now where [the juvenile] is learning and the parents are teaching the young juvenile how to do that, catching a fish in front of it, and trying to get it to mimic the actions of the parent. So it’s fun to watch the juvenile practice picking things up.”
After the nest blew down in May, Parks and Rec staff received a call that a sole eaglet had been found in a neighbor’s back yard. There was no sign of the other one, but the eaglet appeared relatively unharmed. Staff moved quickly, sending it to Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. Luckily, the eaglet had escaped mostly uninjured.
“So now he’s over at Blackland Prairie,” Morris says. “He stays there for a week. It’s like Airbnb. He gets three meals a day, sleeps in, you know, feather cushions and bells and stuff.”
The eaglet of an unidentified sex was named Henley by Raptor Center staff, a nod to Texan rock legend and Eagles frontman Don Henley.
The juvenile was reunited with Nick and Nora shortly after. Although it has certainly learned how to “Fly Like an Eagle,” there are no confirmed reports of the juvenile eagle drumming or singing, thus far. Henley is now learning how to fish and has grown a full coat of feathers. Since it is still under a year old, the plumage around its head is still brown, like most of its feathers. They will begin to whiten fully around five years of age, according to the USFWS.
Looking forward, Morris says that there is little reason to believe Nick and Nora’s family is done growing.
“They’re young, they’re virile.” Morris says. “I keep singing the praises of White Rock Lake, because it is a great ecosystem. There is plenty of opportunity for them to have more clutches. As well as, if the juvenile finds another juvenile, and they make a couple, there may be enough space. There’s plenty of brush overall. There’s red-shouldered and red-tailed hawks and stuff like that. There’s plenty of food there. We may be able to have two eagle couples, I’m not sure.”
Henley reportedly left the lake in early August, but Nick and Nora seem to have finally accomplished something that’s becoming harder and harder these days — they’ve found a home in East Dallas.
Kathy Stewart has led a career shaped by advocacy
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by YUVIE STYLES
She’s been a lawyer, a local business owner, directed public improvement districts and most recently, District 10’s Dallas City councilmember. Stewart’s career has been shaped by a visceral need to be useful to her community.”
“I kept saying I wanted to help people.” Stewart says. “And there’s a lot of things you could do with that, right? So it took me a while to figure it out.”
Originally from Fayetteville, Stewart went to the University of Texas at Austin to study liberal arts.
“I am a Razorback. At some point you don’t grow up in Fayetteville and not become a Razorback,” Stewart says with a smile. “But both of my parents went to UT. They felt like I needed to, and they felt this way about my sisters too, that we needed to go to college not in the same town as they lived.”
She says she loved her time at UT. It probably doesn’t hurt that she met her husband of over 40 years, Robb, on a blind date while in Austin. After graduating, the pair moved to Dallas. She worked for United Way and the American Arbitration Association before enrolling in Southern Methodist University’s School of Law.
Along the way, Stewart and her husband found a home in White Rock Valley. They moved in around New Years in 1984.
“I was studying for the LSAT and my husband was working in a law firm Downtown,” she says. “So we were looking for a neighborhood that I could get to SMU and if we decided to stay we knew the schools were good and it was a good investment.”
She eventually sent all three of her children to those same schools, saying she’s proud to be the mother of three Wildcat alumni. After graduating from law school, she went on to work for her father-in-law in probate and estate planning.
“They needed to go through probate and that always sounds kind of scary to people,” she says. “So I was the person to advocate for them and walk them through that process and I found that very fulfilling.”
In the early 2000s, she says she began having a few doubts about her career direction. She and a group of area investors decided to open the original Lake Highlands Cafe in 2004. She says she did it to help support the area close to the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane and Audelia Road.
“Just within a couple years time, a lot of the retail left and
I wanted to do something you know, I wanted to respond somehow,” Stewart says. “And there was a guy and his brother who were going to put in a restaurant. So I went to help raise money for that and then went to my good friend Anita Siegers because she’s a foodie, and I’m not a foodie, she was back of house I was front of house. I needed her and I ended up being the managing partner for 10 years. And that was a great experience.”
Stewart and the partners sold the cafe in 2014 after a decade of serving the neighborhood. Having become increasingly interested in public service, she went on to serve as executive director for area public improvement districts such as Lake Highlands PID, Lake Highlands North PID and Uptown Dallas Inc. Working with area law enforcement, local businesses and property managers, Stewart sought to improve public safety and enact beautification efforts.
In 2023, incumbent D10 Councilmember Adam McGough reached the council term limit after eight years. Stewart, who had considered running before, announced her campaign. Her listed campaign priorities included public safety, capital improvements, and parks and green space. She would go on to win in a landslide with close to 70% of the vote.
“That was very affirming,” she says. “Yes, it was a great feeling. And it was energizing as well. There’s a lot to learn in your first term. And I was very lucky to be put on a lot of committees.”
Outside of council chambers, she says she enjoys spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.
Entering the second year of her first term, Stewart has made no announcement regarding her plans for the general election in May. She will continue to focus on public safety while finding better ways to listen to constituents — a problem noted by some D10 neighbors.
“I want to continue to find ways to engage with the community,” she says. “I had a lot of coffee meetings. We’ve had community meetings. But I still want to find a way to really find the best avenue for listening to what people’s concerns are. Because every once in a while I’m surprised by one.”
Story by SIMON PRUITT | Photography by SHELBY TAUBER
Barley Vogel was singing in a Christmas pageant choir in sixth grade.
“I’d never met the choir director,” she says. “We were all singing and he said, ‘What’s your name? Vogel? You’re off-key.’ In front of the entire sixth grade. I didn’t sing again.”
In high school, Vogel asked her father what he thought of some of her paintings.
“He would critique it,” she says. “He’d say, ‘Well, you’re gonna get better. You’ll figure this out.’ He only said the very small things he would say, but I got shut down. As a kid, it’s impossible to be as good as a grown up.”
Her father, Donald S. Vogel, was a renowned painter who managed the Valley House Art Gallery, which Barley calls her “childhood home.”
“I really do understand any criticism about a kid’s artwork can just turn the tap off,” Vogel says. “I talk to many artists who are shut down by their parents. It’s just not a good thing, leave them alone with their art.”
To Vogel, this is a tragedy. Everyone has the capacity to create, forgoing it because of an exterior negative influence shouldn’t happen. She sets out to make sure it doesn’t.
Vogel was resilient. She pushed through and forged a decades-long career as a multi-hyphenate visual artist, with work in drawing, painting and sculpting.
But Studio Arts is perhaps her magnum opus. Created in 2005, Vogel’s all-encompassing art school inserts her into the lives of young artists at their most formative time, teaching them to hone their craft and to stick with it.
Her teaching space is something of a destination spot. It’s tucked away on Shoreview Road in Lake Highlands, occupying
a building that used to be a Whataburger. The interior is eclectic, with original paintings decorating the walls and half-finished projects resting on tables for her students to come back to.
“I tell them that I have created a bubble around them,” Vogel says. “I tell them my story, I told your parents to try and not make criticism. Let us do the criticism, because we’re not your parents and you don’t care.”
This isn’t some kind of phony environment, though. Vogel is intentional about exposing the children to the pressures of being a professional artist.
“You’ve got to learn how to take criticism,” she says. “We put our work up every class and learn to safely criticize so that kids don’t get so scared of it. What happens in my class is incredible.”
These days, Vogel only makes the trek to Studio Arts twice a week. She lives deep in the woods of Poetry, Texas, along with a stable of horses and art galore. When she’s not around, she employs a teaching staff that keeps the building active with classes even when she’s gone.
“Studio Arts is one of those magical places where you walk in and you are inspired,” says Studio Arts teacher Naomi Cabrera. “Time stops, allowing your mind to open up to your own ideas. It’s one of those places that every child should experience.”
Cabrera teaches general art to five to seven-year-olds, touching on all mediums to get the kids artistically involved early. She’s worked with Vogel for 17 years, and sent her son through the portfolio class.
“Barley’s calling and her legacy is the portfolio class,” Cabrera says. “She has a sensitive and respectful way of instruct -
ing, inspiring and harnessing their talent beyond their expectations of themselves.”
Vogel’s portfolio class has garnered quite the reputation in the Dallas arts community. In it, she works intimately with high school or college bound students to prepare their portfolio for entry into art schools at the collegiate or high school level. The class helps prepare for any college, but the high school class is designed specifically for students applying to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
“So many students audition for not very many spots,” says Isla Ryan, who took Vogel’s portfolio class ahead of her audition for Booker T. as an incoming freshman.
Auditions ran from January 27 to February 3.
“She had us practice all of the different aspects of the audition as we got closer to our scheduled time at the school, including the interview,” Ryan says. “Every week we had homework, and Barley had high expectations of us but always had our best interest at heart.”
When the school sent notification letters on March 1, Ryan was accepted.
“I feel very lucky to have been chosen,” she says. “I grew as an artist under Barley’s tutelage and am at my highest level of creativity going into my freshman year.
Ryan’s story is one of many. Vogel has spent time with hundreds of artists in Dallas, shaping them into the artists they want to become. Art is hard; it always will be. Sometimes it takes a teacher that understands to push forward.
“I get all of the angst and the drama,” Vogel says. “Artists are sensitive. So I love getting them at their most sensitive and crucial time to become people.”
By JOHN SLATE
Before it was a neighborhood throughfare, the name Audelia referred to a small hamlet
TThe northmost part of the North Lake Highlands area has a number of graceful, sloping hills. On one of them, a major thoroughfare extending from a few blocks north of LBJ down to Northwest Highway, is Audelia Road. Long before it was inside the city, it was a county road. And before that it was a wagon road. It was pretty rugged until it was improved and paved in the late 1930s through Works Progress Administration funding.
Beyond indigenous inhabitation, The Jackson family were among the earliest settlers of the area, members of the Peters Colony. John Jackson, War of 1812 veteran, obtained a land grant in 1842. Jackson and his wife had ten daughters and sons. One of their many grandchildren was Ellen Ardelia Jackson West (1853-1899). She married John F. West — also namesake of a street — who jointly owned the general
store at the southeast corner of Audelia and Forest Lane with Ardelia’s father. The store was itself named Ardelia, which likely led to the community’s name as well as the road. One of the store’s managers over the years was JT Rhoton, who was also postmaster for the community and later the second mayor of Carrollton.
So how did Ardelia morph into Audelia? No one really knows, but perhaps southern accents and drawls gradually changed the name. And what became of the community? Besides the store there was a cotton gin, a grist mill, a oneroom school, and a post office in the back of the store. The post office was closed in 1904. In the WPA Guide to Dallas, which was finished about 1940 but not published until 1992, Audelia is referred to as a “tiny crossroads village” with a population of 35.
Beyond the village, of course, is the
road. Before maps showing named roads in the north Dallas area, Audelia was a long, straight wagon road. It’s visible in the famous 1900 Sam Street Map of Dallas County. The name was stuck to the road early in the 20th century, but contemporary maps include the name Audelia starting about 1940. City records indicate the subdivisions up and down Audelia Road were annexed into Dallas from the mid to late 1950s into the early 1960s.
Ardelia herself died in 1899 and is buried with other family members and Ardelia inhabitants in the McCree Cemetery just off Audelia and Estate Lane. The cemetery’s earliest burial is 1862 and also holds members of the Rogers and Little Egypt communities, both well connected historically to Audelia Road.
JOHN SLATE is the city archivist for the Dallas Municipal Archives.
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