Abilene is a little city in focal West Texas that began around 1880

history channel documentary Abilene is a little city in focal West Texas that began around 1880 as very little more than a dairy cattle stock transportation point on the Texas and Pacific Railway. The railroad still partitions the city down the inside with the notable downtown territory on the north side. Nowadays, Abilene is an energetic group of higher learning, brilliant nearby culture and old fashioned Christian otherworldly existence. It's likewise won acclaim in music and films. There was a pop and nation hit tune in 1963 by George Hamilton IV called " Abilene ," and the city was included in the motion pictures "Openings" and "Southland Tales."

Abilene can brag an amazing number of big names from the universes of games and excitement who were conceived or lived there. Randall "Tex" Cobb, a performing artist and prize contender, Olympic post vaulter Billy Olson, Washington Redskins Terry Orr, Olympic gold decoration champ Bobby Morrow, vocalist performer Jessica Simpson, on-screen character Ann Wedgeworth, nation artists Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, nation artist Lee Roy Parnell, on-screen characters Ty O'Neal and Fess Parker are all a player in the fabric of Abilene's rich history.

As of late the Abilene Arts Alliance found a way to interface its city's unique cattlemen's pioneer soul with today's new life wildernesses. Advancing Abilene 's new handle "Frontiering," the Alliance is endeavoring to demonstrate that Abilene is venturing up to the plate to meet the always showing signs of change difficulties of innovation, vitality, training and particularly expressions of the human experience. Customary occasions, for example, the West Texas Fair and Rodeo held each year in mid-September, delight guests with real displays and diversions from the times of Abilene 's establishing fathers. The Western Heritage Classic toward the beginning of May has numerous more varied exercises, for example, sheepdog trials, open air fire cook-offs, Cowboy Poets Society and a Western workmanship appear.