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Earlier this year, students walked through Lake Highlands Middle School’s doors for the first time. It marked a departure from more than 60 years of tradition in the old junior high, which had exclusively housed seventh and eighth graders for more than two decades.
Sixth graders — previously giants on elementary campuses — are now low men on the proverbial totem pole as Richardson ISD transitions to the middle school model. Lake Highlands Middle School is one of the first two schools heading into this locally-unknown territory.
So who’s guiding the transition in the new building?
That would be LHMS Principal Nick Rustin. Originally from a small community east of Lake Lavon, he admittedly stumbled into education inadvertently. He started out as an English teacher at Richardson High School before spending time as an assistant principal at Apollo Junior High.
Going into his fifth year as principal at Lake Highlands, Rustin has grown out his hair a little. While he’s laid back and approachable, LHMS’s inaugural principal is unmistakably passionate about what he does.
“You could have the worst school in America,” Rustin says. “But as long as you’ve got the best teacher in the classroom, that’s the great equalizer. So my goal is just to put the best teachers in the right place and make sure they’re supported and they feel good and can do what they can for kids.”
WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE EDUCATORS YOU HAD GROWING UP?
I still think about my high school basketball coach, who was my science teacher and one of the big mentors in my life. You know, they’re people that can make change without even realizing how much change they make. I was a good kid, good student, but I always tried to build a relationship with the teacher, because it just makes everything that much easier. So I always remember the strong relationships I had with teachers growing up. It was always an important thing for me when I was a kid.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
Nick Rustin is guiding the middle school transition at Lake Highlands
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by VICTORIA GOMEZ
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU WANTED TO BE A TEACHER?
Lots of people know right out of the gate, when they’re a little kid, ‘I’m going to be a teacher.’ If I was to talk to my 18-year-old self and say, ‘you’re going to be a principal by the time you’re 40,’ I would have laughed in your face. It wasn’t on my goal sheet. I started my collegiate career, kind of as a community college jumper. And so when I first started, I didn’t drop English 1301, and I ended up taking an F on my transcript. When I went back, and when I was doing the transition, I tried to get into the Cox School of Business at SMU. Well, they wouldn’t accept me because of that F on my transcript, and so I ended up going to UTD. And then I hit this English track, and I became a teacher. So I always told my kids, if I would have passed English 1301, I probably wouldn’t have become a teacher, the irony of that.
WHAT DREW YOU TO ENGLISH?
For me, from an English perspective, there’s not one right answer, and I always preach this to the staff. It’s teaching beyond the curriculum. It’s being able to have those live conversations.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM TEACHING?
It was such a great experience to see kids grow because me being (at Richardson) six years, there was kids that started with me as freshmen, and I got to see them graduate, And for them to still want to come back and and hang out during lunch or say hello and tell me how things are going, that’s what it’s all about, seeing kids grow and then be successful. That was definitely the thing that I’ll cherish about being a teacher.
DO YOU MISS IT?
All the time.
WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BEING AN ADMINISTRATOR?
It hasn’t changed from being a teacher to being an assistant principal to being a principal: it’s building relationships with staff and kids. That’s what makes the day go man, when you’re happy and you’re feeling good, you’re joking around, things are working. Makes you feel good, because if you’re making kids feel good and you know they’re coming back and they want to come back to school, they’re excited about school, then we’re
making change for kids, and that’s what it’s all about.
HOW IS THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION GOING?
I love sixth graders. I mean, I’m challenging my eighth graders. I’m like, ‘those sixth graders know what they’re doing.’ So the elementaries have done a good job. But that is one of the things that just came up in conversation yesterday with the superintendent is seeing those sixth graders in this environment where they’re a little timid, they’re a little scared, but we’re gonna have them for three years now. Because before in the junior high, when you only have kids for two years, you’re blinking and they’re gone. But now having those sixth graders for that full three years to really train them up as leaders, to really show them and help them. They can help us create what it looks like to be a Lake Highlands Middle School student. I’m really excited about that.
WHAT ABOUT THE STAFF?
I think there’s some growing pains, you know, because it’s almost like opening a brand-new school, I mean having 40 new faculty members and, you know, it’s great having a brand new building, but there’s kinks you got to work through. There’s new procedures that we haven’t done before. We have 400 more kids, that includes more cars in the morning, more cars in the afternoon, more walkers in the morning, more walkers in the afternoon. So it’s just making those adjustments.
WHAT’S THE GOAL FOR YOUR STUDENTS?
It’s like I mentioned before, I want my kids to want to come to school every day. I want them to feel good in the classroom. I want them to feel challenged. I want them to feel uncomfortable. That helps them grow, because when you put yourself in uncomfortable situations, that’s when you grow. I want them to develop grit. I want them to overcome problems. I want them to build relationships, but also understand that not all relationships are going to work out the way that you thought they would. I want them to be leaders. I want them to be self starters. I want them to be a lot of things, but if I was to sum it up, what I want for kids is a good foundation for academic success and success in life.
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RACE FOR LILY GRACE
A family turns their grief into a community
Story by SIMON PRUITT
Steve and Kathy Stigall have been married for 17 years. They got married in 2007 after meeting in college at Southern Methodist University. They have four children, their youngest being Lily, born August 29, 2016.
When Lily was just over a year old, she had a non-fatal drowning accident while the family was celebrating Thanksgiving.
“God saved her that night,” Kathy says. “But she was left with a severe anoxic brain injury.”
The family’s next few years were spent in and out of physical therapy for Lily, including stem cell and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Treatments were costly and not covered by any insurance. By 2020, the Stigalls began reaching out to their community for support.
The Race for Lily Grace was born in the middle of COVID, a virtual fundraising running event where people could sponsor the family.
It helped the family continue treatment for the next two years continuing treatment for Lily. But in June 2022, Lily passed away at the age of 5.
“After Lily passed away, I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with all my time,” Kathy says. “For the past four and a half years, when Steve went to work and the big kids went to school, Lily and I did therapy eight hours a day. As I was working through this, the Lord put on my heart to minister to other moms who are caring for medically complex kids.”
On the advice of her husband, Kathy waited six months after Lily’s death to heal, before taking her mission to other moms.
“A video I posted on Lily’s Instagram account went viral and 30 million people saw my sweet girl light up and smile when she saw her brothers,” she says. “That video going viral gave me a bigger platform to share Lily’s story and help other moms.”
With a story to share and a new platform to share it on, Kathy founded Upheld Ministries, a nonprofit for mothers of medically complex children. The organization offers local gatherings for the moms and families of those children, as well as a free respite retreat. The organization also donates meals for the Ronald McDonald House and for families in the hospital, as well as hospital bags and LEGO sets to encourage children going through medical issues.
This month, the Stigalls are planning to continue the legacy of Race for Lily Grace, with proceeds going towards Upheld Ministries.
“Because we first did the Race for Lily Grace in 2020, we decided to make it a virtual event,” Kathy says. “We have kept it that way, because people who don’t live in Dallas can still participate.”
Sign-ups for children 12 and under are $20. Adults can sign up for $40, or purchase a t-shirt for the same price.
“On October 5, we will have a get-together at White Rock Lake for people in Dallas to come together and run if they would like, or simply hang out,” she says. “I could not imagine going through what we have endured without our community around us.”
Photos courtesy of Kathy Stigall
AT LAST
Cane Rosso opened in June after months of anticipation
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by KATHY TRAN
When it was announced in January that Cane Rosso would move into the former Taco Diner space at the Lake Highlands Town Center, the news was met with serious enthusiasm. Founder and owner Jay Jerrier, who also considered Walnut Hill-Audelia, says the brand had its eyes on Lake Highlands for a while.
“We knew that Taco Diner was kind of shutting down units,” he says. “And this was one of the last ones, and they were still going to be here, but our real estate guy talked to their real estate guys like ‘Hey, do you really want that space? We’d love to take it.’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we’ll sign the lease to you.’ And it just kind of came together really quick. We’ve been looking around forever.”
The 4,000-square foot space comes equipped with two kitchens. One houses the all-important pizza oven, while the other has a flat-top grill. Side Hustle, his restaurant group’s smashburger ghost kitchen, has set up in the auxiliary cooking space. He also teased that a separate bar menu may be on its way.
“We’re gonna do some fun things at this location,” he says.
But the main star of the show will remain the brand’s iconic, wood-fired Neapolitan pizza.
“Every bit of mozzarella on a pizza has been hand-stretched by us,” Jerrier says. “We’re not using machines to do that. We ball all of our dough by hand, and every single one of our Cane Rossos is fired by logs.”
For those who may not know what Cane Rosso’s wood-fired Neapolitan pizza entails, it starts with the ingredients: fresh mozzarella — which Cane Rosso produces 7,000 pounds of a week—patchily laid over bright tomato sauce atop a stretched-out ball of dough made with imported Italian 00 flour.
Then comes baking.
The ingredients are placed in a large, double-domed brick or concrete oven. The heat — preferably reaching temperatures around 900°F — comes from a pile of burning logs in the back. As the process continues, the pizza maker, or pizzaiolo, continuously moves the pie across the oven to ensure even cooking.
The finished product is light, floppy, and may require a knife and fork.
When Cane Rosso first burst onto the Dallas dining scene in the early 2010s, Jerrier says Dallasites were a little confused.
“It was floppy and it was soggy, and there’s not enough toppings. It’s not edge to edge cheese,” he says. “And I can’t have 1000 different ingredients on the pizza. Everybody wanted a supreme with sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, onions, olives, any kind of thing you could throw on. They wanted to max out the pizzas. Now, I think people are a little more refined, or where they get it, we don’t have to go into great detail to explain what Neapolitan wood-fired pizza is.”
Dallas has gotten a little more familiar with the style since then, and Cane Rosso certainly isn’t afraid of toppings, although its pies typically feature no more than four add-ons to remain true to Italian style.
Cane Rosso’s menu features 21 signature pizzas, in addition to seasonal rotators, which sport add-ons like Calabrian chile béchamel, truffle mascarpone, prosciutto and brisket. Customers can also create their own as long as they keep it under three toppings — no supremes! If those ingredients seem outlandish, don’t worry, traditional margherita and sausage pies still headline the offering.
Past pizza, Cane Rosso offers a varied selection of appetizers, sandwiches, salads and pastas, which Jerrier says
he got some help from a neighbor on.
“Jeff Bekavac, who’s a Lake Highlands guy, worked with us for a while,” Jerrier says. “He was, I think, the first chef that we brought on that was up to the task of making everything on the menu that was non-pizza just as good as the pizza, you know, where he kind of brought us up to about as high as we could go, and then he was ready to open. He had always wanted to open his own restaurant, and Goodwins [on Greenville] is obviously awesome.”
The pasta selection is serious. Penne all’amatriciana, truffle carbonara, cacio e pepe, and fusilli alla vodka all offer ample competition to the ‘za menu.
The menu also features a well-balanced and unbusy cocktail list, with staples like a barrel-aged old fashioned sitting alongside intriguing seasonal house concoctions. The wine list is affordably-priced and offers a mix of Old and New World selections.
Coming up on five months in the Town Center, Jerrier says the smaller space is what Cane Rosso is trying to move to — following closures in Houston and Austin — as the brand refocuses on the Metroplex, with plans to open another location in Sachse soon.
Business in the Town Center has been going well, he says.
“I think our strength is being a neighborhood restaurant. It’s someplace that’s reliable, that we hope you can go to a couple times a month, if not a couple times a week. Now that our menu has enough variety on it, I think it’s a spot where you can come and sit in the bar by yourself, you can sit on a patio, you can push tables together, and it really is the kind of neighborhood spot that’s kind of always how we’ve always envisioned it.”
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RESTAURANT GUIDE
a neighborhood school
Inside a community’s efforts to back their local school
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
IT’S EARLY SEPTEMBER
AT
A STULTS ROAD
ELEMENTARY (SRE) OPEN HOUSE. Parents and their children pile into the cafeteria for a presentation over the school’s curriculum.
It’s standing room only, and the parents listen attentively — or at least as attentive as their little ones allow.
“I’ve been doing this for 21 years, and I can guarantee you if we as a campus work with parents, at the end of the day, students win,” Principal Ron Anthony says to the audience.
When Anthony took over as principal, COVID had taken a serious hit on the parental presence at the school. Those days are long-gone, he says.
“As we transition into the year and even next year, I want to have it to where we may have to host the event outside on the playground,” Anthony says. “Because we’re always driving to grow.”
But, this hasn’t always been the case in recent years. A half-hearted parent teacher association was kept afloat for multiple years by a teacher or two without parental involvement. When Lisa Granado took over this May, she became the first elected president of a fully-functioning Stults Road Elementary PTA in close to six years.
“There are parents who want to be active, who want to support the school, they just didn’t know what to do or how to do it, and we really didn’t either,” she says. “But it was kind of like everybody just lent a hand and did what they could to try to resurrect this PTA.”
She and RISD Trustee Rachel McGowan, an alumna and current SRE parent, set out to rebuild the community support infrastructure around the school. They found a passionate group of moms and have
embarked on a mission to support the school and rebuild the PTA, and in turn, people’s image of the school.
“They’re just going off of the wrap that it gets,” says Jenifer Mallow, an SRE mom. “Even residents in the neighborhood, they have older kids, so they’re used to the way it was represented a while back, instead of what we are seeing.”
In the SRE attendance zone, which covers a socioeconomically diverse area including the Forest Lane corridor, transfers to private schools and other RISD campuses are common. According to the district’s 2023-24 demographics report, despite a resident student population of 573, SRE reported an enrollment of 542.
“I had to explain to my second grader,” SRE mom Jillian Solorzano says. “He wanted to know why all of his friends aren’t going to school anymore.”
Relatively low STAAR scores and TEA A-F ratings have disheartened potential student families in the past. Higher-scoring elementary schools like Merriman Park and White Rock are often transfer destinations for families.
“District-wise, we’re gonna need to really support the school and the efforts of the principal and what he needs, and the teachers and find out what they need,” McGowan says, speaking as a parent.
However, the STAAR has and likely will continue to be a controversial metric of a school’s performance, and the release of the A-F ratings — largely based on the STAAR — has been blocked for the last two years by a Travis County Judge over concerns of unfair STAAR standards.
On top of the STAAR’s controversial role in A-F ratings — especially
following the implementation of the STAAR 2.0 for the 2022-23 school year — the school also has a large bilingual population which can require additional support for English-language tests like the STAAR. This adds another layer of nuance to SRE’s rating, where over half of the student population is listed as emergent bilingual, according to 2023-24 TEA PEIMS reports.
“We know that how we test native Spanish-speaking kids in [standard, English language] standardized tests, there’s a difference [in performance],” McGowan says. “And so how are we supporting that, and are we putting the funds behind that …. We’ve really got to pay attention to how we’re allocating funds and how we’re supporting those kids and making sure they’re successful in the test. It’s going to make a big difference.”
Despite entrenched attitudes, Granado, McGowan and the group are determined to change the perception of Stults Road.
“It’s kind of a divide in the community, where some are like, ‘Well, I’m on board. I’m willing to help be a part of that and make a change,’” McGowan says. “And then we have another part that’s like, ‘Not doing it, not chancing it.’”
The group is enthusiastically making a stand for their neighborhood school. They’ve gone door-to-door, created social media pages and hosted events to recruit neighborhood families.
“I think a lot of families kind of look at that and they’re like, ‘This is going to be a lot, I don’t know if I can take this on,’” says SRE mom Beth Perry. “So what we’re doing now, it is a lot of work, and we’re all working really hard, but I think the change that we’re making will lay the foundation for other families to come in and help it grow. They won’t be doing the nitty gritty stuff.”
One of Stults’ biggest draws, the group feels, comes from the school’s dual language program. The program places an equal number of English speaking students with native Spanish speaking students in a mostly-Spanish, immersive classroom environment designed to create bi-literate and bilingual students. It comes with a five year commitment for each student, and is open to all RISD residents.
“We feel like there’s just kind of a misconception about the
school, but then there’s also a misconception about the program,” Perry says. “Either no one knows about the program at all or the information they have is not accurate, anyone that is zoned for a Lake Highlands school can apply.”
Recruiting families for next year isn’t their only concern. They’re also committed to supporting the school by whatever means possible.
“We had a meeting before school started with Mr. Anthony, and went over the calendar and just tried to bring some things back that we hadn’t had at Stultz for a while because there wasn’t a PTA,” Granado says. “Dances, the Back to School Bash, donuts with grown ups, trying to get trips going, fundraising for those things that some of the other elementary schools are able to do that we might not have been able to do in the past few years.”
Since they began, parental involvement on campus has increased, the once-practically defunct PTA now has over 70 members, and even Principal Anthony has remarked on the efforts.
“It’s definitely exciting.” Anthony says. “Anytime we have a PTA meeting, the goal is to have standing room only, and we’re getting close to where that’s becoming a healthy problem, to where we got parents in the building and they are actively involved. They’re asking questions.”
While the group knows that affecting change will be gradual, they feel their, and the district’s, support will translate into longterm success.
“It’s important that we [the district] are supporting the principal and his efforts and the needs of the teachers that whatever it is that they need, they’re going to help raise the test scores for the kids in the school,” McGowan says. “That’s going to help parents look at that and change their minds.”
For Granado, who has lived in the community off-and-on since 1988 and went to SRE, the goal is to make the school a neighborhood hub again.
“What I want to bring back to Stults is that you live in a neighborhood and you go to school in the same neighborhood, so when my son wants to go and play with his classmate, he can just go across the street, or a street over, or he can walk down the block and he can go play with his friend,” Granado says.
From left to right: Beth Perry, Kim Typaldos, Lisa Granado, Rachel McGowan and Jillian Solorzano. Not pictured: Jenifer Mallow
RICHARDSON ISD SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT 5
TRUSTEE RACHEL MCGOWAN is as Lake Highlands as it gets. She went to Stults Road Elementary, then Forest Meadow Junior High, before graduating from Lake Highlands High School in 1996.
She was a Highlandette and can still remember the seniors painting “Welcome to the Boneyard” on the train overpass on Church Road. Two of her three children — don’t hold it against the third, she’s a first grader at Stults Road — are or have attended the high school.
“My favorite piece is just the love, the compassion that our community truly has for its people,” McGowan says. “We take care of our people in Lake Highlands. And I don’t know about Pearce, I don’t know about these other places, right, but I feel like Lake Highlands, if we have something happen in Lake Highlands, and you put out a call to certain people and put out the feelers that ‘Hey, we need that,’ this community will come together no matter who it is.”
While speaking with her, bringing the whole community together kept coming up. She’s the first Black trustee to represent Lake Highlands on the board, and her first involvement in district politics came with a Forest Meadow Junior High PTA election.
“I was just like, ‘You know what? There’s not any African American parents trying to get involved at this level,” McGowan says. “Y’all like, “I’m trying to do the work, like I want you to embrace me, like I’m coming in, open the door.’ That was kind of my stance.”
She’d seen PTAs and parent groups with minimal or no representation. At LHHS, McGowan heard about AP classes with a lone Black student enrolled, which she recalls hasn’t changed much from her days.
“The representation just wasn’t there,” she says. “If people like me are not trying to get involved and come into these things, then what do you expect? You shouldn’t expect anything greater, right? But I had a different feeling about it. It just drives me to push harder and to try to get more people to come along with me and push harder.
Closing achievement gaps and finding a place for underrepresented parents were concerns of McGowan’s going into the 2022 school board election, but she wasn’t a single-issue candidate. In fact, some of her biggest priorities were supporting teachers and finding solutions to behavioral problems.
“My kids have grown up with some of these kids,” McGowan says. “And I’ve seen some of these behavioral issues over the years, and then as an adult and as a parent, I have listened to other parents in the community talk about some of their experiences and some of their kids’ experiences in our classrooms, and it’s not okay, it’s not acceptable.”
McGowan cruised to a victory, earning more than 20% more votes than the runner-up. She says adjusting to the hands-off boundaries set for trustees was the biggest learning curve.
“You’re not supposed to do administrative work,” McGowan said. “You know, you need to stay overhead, and that’s super, super hard for me, right? First term finishing up, that’s been hard because, again, I am still a mom at the end of the day. And to me, the relationship building piece and our community is the most vital part. ”
Since her election, she’s helped get maternity and bereavement leave for teachers, and was one of the votes which approved the district’s 2024-25 school year budget that included substantial pay raises, something she says she’s “super excited about.”
Outside of School Board meetings, when she’s not meeting with constituents, McGowan is an account manager working in sales. She enjoys traveling, shopping and trying out restaurants in the area. Her favorite spot at the moment is MoMo Italian on Forest Lane.
McGowan will run for reelection this May, she says. Her biggest priorities will remain closing achievement gaps, teacher retention and improving classroom discipline.
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Oktoberfest Dallas is as much a part of the Exchange Club as it is the neighborhood
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October — or perhaps more fittingly Oktober —has finally arrived in Lake Highlands. For Dallasites, it’s a time for breaking out sweaters, going to the State Fair or watching the Red River Rivalry.
In Lake Highlands, October also means the return of Oktoberfest Dallas, put on annually by the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands, who describe the event as their “Super Bowl.” Much like its other flagship event, the Fourth of July Parade — a Lake Highlands institution since at least the ‘70s — Oktoberfest has grown to become a near-holiday which draws thousands of attendees each year.
The Club
With over 100 nonprofit organizations operating in the Lake Highlands area, it’s fair to say the neighborhood places a certain value on service and philanthropy.
It’s a tradition that goes all the way back to when Lake Highlands was transitioning from a rural farmland to a quiet suburb in the middle of the 20th Century. The Exchange Club, founded in 1960, was one of the first dedicated service organizations in the area.
“The ways that we do [things] have changed a little bit over time, but at its core, the mission of Exchange Club has stayed the same, which is unity through service and making our neighborhood a better place to live,” says Brent Basden, a former president.
The organization awards tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships and community grants each year. Last year, over $125,000 in scholarships were awarded to 56 graduating Lake Highlands High School seniors, bringing their total scholarship contribution total to $3,177,850 over the last 25 years.
The group is modeled after the National Exchange Club, which was founded in 1911 as a place for individuals to “exchange” ideas
on how to better their community. The main areas of activity involve supporting public education, first responders and child abuse prevention.
“We are able to say unequivocally,” Basden says. “All of our money goes back to our communities, whether that’s our kids, our first responders, our area nonprofits.”
Over the years, the Club’s Community Grants program has supported local elementary schools, the Audelia Road Branch Library and Box 4 Fire Buff Association, to name a few.
“About 10 years ago,” current President John Torres says. “Our community service budget was primarily geared towards sort of ad hoc support requests, and over time, we’ve evolved that into a formalized program where we give away significant sums of money every year to a wide variety of different nonprofits. We support a bunch of different organizations that fill a variety of different needs, including healthcare, homeless support, supporting first responders, such as Box 4, basically anyone that’s out there, helping our community, helping our neighbors, we would be inclined to support.”
The clubs’ grants and scholarships are funded through private donations and fundraisers, with the biggest taking place once a year in early fall at Flag Pole Hill.
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest Dallas, then Lake Highlands Oktoberfest, made its debut in 2010 at the Lake Highlands Town Center. As the years progressed, the festival expanded to include concert-style entertainment as neighbors’ enthusiasm for brats, beer and lederhosen grew.
Eventually, as the Town Center’s available space shrunk with construction and the event’s needs grew, the decision was made to move the event to Flag Pole Hill.
“It’s really an ideal location for us,” Basden says. “Just because of how much space there is and how many people we can accommodate. You know, when the weather’s nice, we have thousands of people coming out to Oktoberfest. That’s what we’re hoping for this year.”
Falling on October 5 this year, the festival now routinely attracts over 5,000 visitors annually.
One of the biggest draws comes from the festival’s musical lineup, which in the past has featured acts like Old 97’s, Charlie Robinson and Bob Schneider. This year’s headliner is Cory Morrow, a red-dirt country musician who has appeared on the Billboard country album charts. But maybe the most-anticipated performance will be a timely ode to a pop culture phenomenon.
“Red, the Taylor Swift tribute band, is going to be opening,” says Brad McCutcheon, the Oktoberfest chair. “And we anticipate that being incredibly popular, just based on the ticket sales for other events in the area that they’ve generated. So we’re really excited about that.”
The bands will begin playing at 6:30 p.m. on the main stage following the conclusion of the stein holding contest and keg tapping. Live music can also be found beforehand at the Old Lake Highlands Brewery Festival Hall, a large tent with long tables and bench seating reminiscent of Bavarian beer tents known as festzelts.
Beer and wine will be supplied by Sam Adams, OLH Brewery and Vector Brewing, which also sponsors the Market Village, where visitors can browse local vendors’ stands. Food vendors this year include Cane Rosso, Burger Schmurger, Cedar and Vine and Aw Shucks. Strouderosa BBQ has been entrusted with the all-important task of cooking the brats.
The kids zone will offer entertainment and activities for children. For parents who may want to bring their children during the day, and then return for the concerts at night, the wristband included in the get-in price guarantees admission for the rest of the event — regardless of whether or not someone leaves for an hour or two.
“People look forward to it. People look forward to bringing their families out,” McCutcheon says. “They plan their weekends around it. And so it’s just kind of become part of the DNA of Lake Highlands.”
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Arte de Dia de Muertos
The Bath House’s annual show remembers the forgotten Story by
AUSTIN WOOD
When Bath House Cultural Center curator Enrique Fernandez was leading a tour of 7 and 8-year-olds through the Center’s annual Day of the Dead Exhibition, the group stopped, awestruck, at one of the altars in the gallery.
Altars, or ofrendas, are an integral part of Dia de los Muertos. Family members display photos of lost loved ones and place the departed’s favorite items on the altars in anticipation of their soul’s return in early November.
As the children gazed at the exquisitely decorated altar, Fernandez overheard a boy marvel at the love and care that the honored individual had inspired. But another boy, who
had probably seen Coco , was upset at the thought of individuals who didn’t have anybody left to honor them with an altar. He thought — as Coco portrayed — that as memories of an individual fade, that their spirit begins “disappearing.”
“Luckily, I had talked to a professor of anthropology and I knew about this celebration of the 30th of October,” Fernandez says. “When the spirits of people like that who passed away and were celebrated and remembered for years until they’re survivors begin to also pass away. And he said that the reason that people celebrated on the 30th was to honor the memory of those who didn’t have anybody else to remem -
ber them. When I explained that to the little boy in other words, he became very happy that there was an opportunity for the community to remember people who they didn’t know. He thought that everybody deserved a chance to be remembered.”
That interaction gave Fernandez the inspiration for this year’s exhibition theme. Entitled Día de Muertos: Messages of Love for the Forgotten and Disappeared , the exhibition seeks to honor those who don’t have a place on an altar anymore.
DIA
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is commonly celebrated by Mexican and Mexican diaspora com -
The Letter to my Compadre Mixed media by Raúl Servín
munities on November 1 (All Saints’ Day) and 2 (All Souls’ Day). On these days, it is believed that the spirits of the dead return to visit loved ones and friends, who welcome them with pan de muerto, marigold flowers and offerings of their favorites in life.
While it is celebrated in connection with Catholic holidays which arrived with the Spanish, its roots go back to indigenous Mexican society.
“[In Ireland] They adapted indigenous practice into a Catholic practice,” says Yolanda Chavez Leyva, a history professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. “And that’s what I see happened with the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead started out as a two month celebration before the Europeans. And in order to make Catholicism more attractive to indigenous people, they took those two months and put them into the two days of All Saints Day and All Souls Day.”
The original holidays took place in August and September, commemorating the harvest. The pre-Hispanic notion of death was much more transitory.
“It comes from being an agricultural society where there’s always that cycle of life and death,” Leyva says. “Which is why these two holidays were about the harvest, they were about the culmination of the agricultural season, that we could think of would also be the culmination of our lives. We were just like seeds that grow into plants that then die. So there was a respect for death, not a fear for death.”
As a reflection of pre-Hispanic ideas of life and death, the Day of the Dead is not a somber occasion. Instead, the return of loved ones, friends and ancestors is celebrated with great fanfare.
Families begin decorating altars in the runup to the holiday. The deceased’s favorite food, drinks, pictures and mementos are placed on the altar — which can be set up at a grave or in the home. Pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, is a common food during this time, as are sugar skulls known as calavera.
Many visit their loved ones’ graves to clean and decorate them. One of the most common decorations are bright yellow marigold flowers that are believed to guide the souls of the dead to their family.
The holiday is mainly celebrated in southern Mexican states like Oaxaca, an epicenter of Dia de los Muertos celebrations. There are wide variations in Day of the Dead traditions across states, municipalities and
even towns. In recent years, the Day of the Dead has become much more popular worldwide following cultural depictions like Coco
Although November 1 and 2 are the most widely-celebrated days, there are lesser-known adjacent days used to honor specific souls, such as unborn children and the drowned, with the 30th reserved for the forgotten.
THE EXHIBITION
The show has been a Bath House staple since 1986. Cora Corduna, the then-director of Teatro Dallas, was putting on a play traditionally performed close to the Day of the Dead, Don Juan Tenorio . She had altars displayed in the gallery to make the play a more immersive experience.
“It was just for that run of that play,” Fernandez says. “And little does she know that years later, we’re still doing that show.
Altars, including the one the two boys would be discussing years later, have remained a constant in the exhibition, now going into its 38th year. Fernandez says that most altars are built in honor of friends or non-family members.
“The others that are built by family members are very significant because they bring together members of the family,” he says. “There’s usually a person in that group who has artistic abilities, who can maybe direct the building of the altar, but the whole endeavor of putting the altar together, it’s a family effort.”
“And you hear them as they’re putting everything together, tell stories about the person or remembering an anecdote or something that happened with them and the person who was being honored. And there are moments when some of them are crying and or sometimes they’re laughing,”
This year’s exhibition will be on display from October 12 to November 9, with an artists’ reception planned for October 13. Submissions, of which Fernandez says there are typically 250-300, are open to all forms of media. The show’s call for entries requested works to convey light and joyful messages. Paintings are common, but 3-D sculptures are also typically well represented.
“One piece that was very memorable was by a young artist who worked in a warehouse and he noticed that they were about to discard very large blocks of foam core that they use for packaging,” Fernandez says. “These were pieces that were probably three feet by three feet and they were really
huge. And with that discarded material he saw a potential for doing an art piece, and he sculpted a full bodied skeleton out of foam core that was about 20 feet tall. And our gallery is only 11 feet high.”
Luckily, the skeleton was able to sit down.
Ahead of this year’s exhibition, Fernandez will narrow the 150-200 entries down to 65 displayed works.
“We’re curious to see how artists would interpret the theme,” he says. “Will they explore you know, the joyful side, the part that says yes, they’re gone? They’re not here with us physically. But we believe that there’s a reason for celebrating because perhaps where they are now is a place that’s bringing them that level of happiness and joy.”
That joy can be hard to maintain when thinking about people being forgotten or spirits “disappearing.” But for Fernandez, that interaction with those two little kids told him all he needed to know.
“I think seeing that face lighting up and the eyes getting some consolation that yeah, maybe people don’t have people to remember them, but there are always others who are willing to do that for you. To me, that made it clear that maybe there’s also a happy side.”
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