Bobbie Nelson’s Grand Piano Finds a Home at the Bullock Texas State History Museum
After Bobbie Nelson passed away in March 2022 at age 91, her son Freddy Fletcher inherited the grand piano she had ... Read More »
‘Top Gun’ Actor Glen Powell Channels His Adventurous Texas Spirit on Screen
If you search TikTok, you’ll find more than a few posts by women who are beside themselves over actor Glen Powell’s ... Read More »
Radney Foster Reflects on Del Rio, Mentoring Kacey Musgraves, and Induction Into the THSA Hall of Fame
Even as he’s lived two-thirds of his life in Tennessee, Radney Foster has always considered himself a Texas ... Read More »
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Reopens Historic Bottling Room with New Exhibition
Just a three-block walk from the crowds at Magnolia Market in Waco is the Dr Pepper Museum, where visitors can learn ... Read More »
From Soap Creek Saloon to Willie Nelson’s Picnic, 1973 Was the Year Austin Music Peaked
Back in 1986, while Stevie Ray Vaughan was becoming an MTV guitar hero, three Austin acts—Charlie Sexton, the ... Read More »
The Historic Lancaster Hotel in Houston Makes Hospitality a Fine Art
When Jay Shinn and his Dallas company Magnolia Lodging purchased the historic Lancaster Hotel in Houston’s downtown ... Read More »
Houston’s 1940 Air Terminal Museum Preserves the Culture of Flight
From a frieze over the entryway of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Mercury, the Roman god of messengers, reaches out ... Read More »
On ‘Roll On, Cowboys,’ Lubbock’s Andy Hedges Captures Western Music Traditions
When I spoke to Andy Hedges for a 2006 Texas Highways feature on the cowboy music revival, his initial response was, ... Read More »
‘Legacy of Love’ Seeks to Unite All in Dallas’ Oak Lawn Neighborhood
It started with a picture in The Dallas Morning News: an empty patch of unruly grass covered by a sign that read ... Read More »
The Kimbell Art Museum Celebrates 50 Years of Shining Natural Light on International Art
A band of silvery light runs along the body of a freshly caught mackerel in Anne Vallayer-Coster’s 1787 painting ... Read More »
Home of Austin’s Original Slacker, the O. Henry Museum Reopens
A squeaky front door welcomes visitors to the O. Henry Museum. It’s the kind of squeak that only a certain type of door ... Read More »
In the Texas Panhandle, a Farmer Turned Woodcarver Chisels Out a Name for Himself
In the front yard of a house in Tyler's Brick Street Historic District stands what was once a dead tree. Over a ... Read More »
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