Some folks move to a new locale and do all they can to make their home look just like the one they left, but not Teresa Farish. When she and her husband Ron moved to Tyler, Texas, from Washington, D.C. in 1982, Teresa embraced the Lone Star state as if she had been born there. Having grown up watching TV characters Matt Dillon, Bat Masterson and Roy Rogers, Teresa developed a love for the Old West and the Victorian period in which the Old West flourished. Eventually, she defined herself as a


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