Extraordinary Texans: Margo Martindale
You can take the movie star out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the movie star. Actress Margo Martindale ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Armando Hinojosa
Front and center on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin, the Tejano Monument’s life-size granite figures ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Frederick ‘Fritz’ Hanselmann
Frederick “Fritz” Hanselmann holds many titles with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Bill and Sally Wittliff
Several years after the death of Texas literary legend J. Frank Dobie in 1964, aspiring writer and photographer ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Carolyn Boyd
Working as a muralist in the late 1980s, Carolyn Boyd traveled to the cliffs and rock shelters flanking the Pecos ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Dorothy Huang
“Don’t eat this,” says cookbook author, culinary tour guide, and teacher Dorothy Huang, laughing as she shows a ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans: Alan Bean
One of only 12 people who has ever walked on the moon, former astronaut and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texans
A common thread runs among this year’s group of Extraordinary Texans: Each of them has pursued a dream, and each ... Read More »
The Fringe of Footwear
Nevena Christi points to a label painted on a brick wall inside the El Paso workshop of Rocketbuster Handmade ... Read More »
In the Creative Moment
The artist, inventor, architect, and teacher Buck Winn first beheld the hills of Wimberley in the late 1930s. ... Read More »
An Interwoven Legacy
Most Texans with deep roots in the state treasure the contributions their ancestors made to its unique ... Read More »