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Meet Your Texas Maker: Chuck Lee Banjo Co.
You can’t play a sad song on a banjo, says Chuck Lee. Which is a big part of why this…
Meet Your Texas Maker: Patricia Wolf
When Patricia Wolf was a little girl growing up in Pennsylvania, she often fell asleep at night gazing at the…
Meet Your Texas Makers: Nokona
In the 1960s, when former Nokona CEO “Big Bob” Storey was asked why he wasn’t buying from overseas to make…
Meet Your Texas Makers: Crumpton Cycles
Behind his house in central Austin, in a tiny space decked out with machinery, an industrial oven, and a peg-board…
Meet Your Texas Makers: Arbor Castle Birdhouses
"If you want to find out how to do something, you just have to start doing it,” says artist Joseph…
Meet Your Texas Makers: Dos Carolinas
Robin’s egg linen, yellow seersucker, blue madras... The fabric options for a custom-made Dos Carolinas’ guayabera are as varied and…
Meet Your Texas Makers: Aermotor Windmill Co.
As familiar as bluebonnets and Dairy Queen, the Aermotor windmills that dot the Texas countryside are such a fixture that…
Extraordinary Texans: Carolyn Boyd
Working as a muralist in the late 1980s, Carolyn Boyd traveled to the cliffs and rock shelters flanking the Pecos…
Extraordinary Texans: Alan Bean
One of only 12 people who has ever walked on the moon, former astronaut and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan…
Extraordinary Texans: Armando Hinojosa
Front and center on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin, the Tejano Monument’s life-size granite figures include an…
Extraordinary Texans: Harry Robinson Jr.
As president and CEO of the African American Museum in Dallas, Harry Robinson Jr. has turned his keen interest in…
Extraordinary Texans: Bill and Sally Wittliff
Several years after the death of Texas literary legend J. Frank Dobie in 1964, aspiring writer and photographer Bill Wittliff…