Treasured Through Time
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A visitor might take a look at the burgeoning street art, galleries, and music scene in Taylor and call the town “up-and-coming.” But that would be ignoring a fascinating history that has long made Taylor hard to overlook.
Animator Tex Avery, who was born in 1908 in Taylor, worked for Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and helped to create one of the most famous cartoon characters on the planet, Bugs Bunny. Bill Pickett, a performer in Wild West shows and the first African American inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame,
