
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 28, 1994                   TAG: 9402030011
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Wendi Gibson Richert
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

LIKE MAIL FROM HOME

Any Texan will insist that Texas is the place to live - particularly when they've sampled the ``authentic Tex-Mex'' made authentically anywhere else

But some Texans don't live in Texas. They only wish they still did.

You probably know one of these folks.

These are the ones who not only long for the Lone Star State, but also insist on its superiority. As Davy Crockett once said: ``You go to hell. I'm going to Texas.''

Well, now those displaced Texans can get a slice of home away from home with the quarterly publication of the Homesick Texan. With subscribers in every state and in 25 countries, this paper claims to be ``the best thing to happen to Texans since air-conditioning.'' The price ain't bad, either - 15 bucks for a year (call 800 I'M TEXAN to subscribe).

Inside the Homesick Texan are stories from Texans both home and away. Ads fill the pages with true Texas stuff you can order when you're hankering for a bit of down home.

And, as if Texans had anything to prove, the Homesick Texan tells in its Winter '93 issue that its writers have won feature writing awards from the Press Club of Dallas, and that the paper was a finalist for the best nondaily newspaper in Texas.

But the Homesick Texan staff thinks it should've won that last one. ``We got beat by a newspaper 25 times larger than us. We felt somewhat like Bowie and Crockett at the Alamo getting hammered by larger forces.''

by CNB