{"id":376595,"date":"2026-07-17T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:26:07","slug":"east-texas-tonight-a-man-preserving-east-texas-history-one-column-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376595\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: A man preserving East Texas history, one column at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know a man whose words have captured the stories, history, and heart of East Texas for more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gary Borders has worn many hats throughout his career\u2014newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, author, photographer, librarian, and radio commentator. His weekly columns have appeared in newspapers across Texas and around the country, and today he continues sharing stories that celebrate East Texas life while preserving its rich history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When he\u2019s not writing or teaching, you\u2019ll likely find him out on his East Texas farm with his animals, camera in hand, or working among the pine trees.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know a man whose words have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133173,133174,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-376595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-gary-borders","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}