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of the twentieth century, its sympathetic interest in nature d by a modern design attitude, d abstract and conventional er, uncluttered settings

Longworth Nichols experimented with overglaze china paints Classes were taught at the McMicken School of Design Some of this student-painted china was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 Millions of people attending the Exposition were exposed to the new art form and embraced it. Many women turned to creative occupations that allowed them to beautify their homes with their own artistic creations and china painting was one such outlet

Whiteware and painting supplies were easily attainable from American shops and studios that imported these from Europe Women chose their own patterns to decorate their own pieces. But one of the difficulties china painters encountered was locating kilns to fire their pieces. This led to the development and distribution of a portable and economical kerosene-fueled kiln specifically geared to ew unpopular during the World War II when discretionary rtage of materials and imports lain painting was virtually 8 when a group of Dallas women that is still active The World Organization of China Painters based in Oklahoma City, boasts a membership of over 9,000 china painters in the United States

However those who took up china painting predominantly did so as a hobby As an art form, it never regained the same number of practitioners as it had in its heyday prior to World War I.

Come see come beautiful examples of hand painted china at Texas Home Emporium and Howe Mercantile

Dr Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning, Howe Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p.m. In addition to Tips, Tools, & Techniques: Caring for Your Antiques and Collectibles, she has written four Denton history books and is working on a 5th history about the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo

How the Enterprise covered 9/11

With the recently newly name change of Howe Enterprise to Texoma Enterprise, the publication still came out on Thursday afternoons, therefore, the events that took place on Tuesday morning, September 11, only received a small blurb that the country was under attack When the newspaper was a printed publication, time to reconfigure the

weekly Enterprise was near impossible

Nearly everyone that remembers the event, remembers exactly where they were at the time of the attack It was a sad time in America and it was a sad time in Howe, Texas But the unification of our country afterwards was a beautiful things Even if it was temporary