Denison, Texas ?????

Whenever I tell someone that I am from Denison
they usually confuse it with Denton....Denison is the
one with the GOOD football team..
Actually, Denison is a lot more than just a football
crazy town on the Red River. It was the first place
the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railroad came to
Texas. Denison became the railroad's main hub for
all of Texas, and some of the railroad big wigs decided
to call Denison home. The first public school in Texas
was started in Denison. The Marx Brothers were simply
musicians until a stop in Denison where Groucho bought a
wig and became the stooped over clown that everyone
remembers. Probably the most famous Denisonian is
Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th President of the
United States. Ike was born in Denison October 14, 1890
but his family moved to Kansas when he was a young
boy. He will forever be remembered as the Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in World War II, and the man who had to make the
important decision on the Normandy invasion. France lost all of it's
vineyards in the 1940's due to the war, and John Munson of Denison
transplanted some of his vines and donated them to France...thus saving the French wine industry. So when
you think you have to have a French wine with dinner,..just remember
it has a Denison connection. Denison is also
the hometown of actor John Hillerman, who is best known as
the sidekick of Tom Selleck in the television series Magnum, P.I.
Now days it is up to the high school football team to bring attention
to Denison...and they relish in that job. A perennial powerhouse that
goes to the post-season playoffs with the regularity of the sunrise.
The Yellow Jackets were State Champions in 1984-85 and returned
to the title game three times in the early 1990's only to come home
second best. 2008 saw them eliminated in the Regional round of the
playoffs and last year they made it to the Semi-Finals before bowing
out....BUT next year is always another season.. Sting 'Em Jackets !!