Waxahachie Daily Light, July 27, 2007 WAXAHACHIE - Waxahachie is full of treasures in plain sight. We live, work and play in them, drive, walk and bicycle past them. Sometimes, we may even stop and look at them. A new book in the works will dust off the priceless gems of architecture and history of many Waxahachie buildings and sites and put them on display for all of the world to see. The currently titled "Waxahachie Architecture Guidebook" is being researched by historians Ellen Beasley and Margaret Culbertson and will be modeled after an architectural guidebook Beasley co-wrote on Galveston to make that town's significant places known and appreciated. The book began as an idea and a phone call from Waxahachie native Dr. Burke Evans, known in his Waxahachie days as Ernest, to Shannon Simpson, director of the Ellis County Museum. "I'm interested in Waxahachie architecture and I was raised in Waxahachie until I was 17," said Evans, retired chief of orthopedics at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "I think Waxahachie has a beautiful cross-section of architecture."