Meet Luling’s Watermelon Seed-Spitting World Record Holder
As a kid living on a New London oil production camp, Lee Wheelis grew up bike riding, pond fishing, and watermelon ... Read More »
How a Fort Worth Amateur Astronomer Built a Massive Meteorite Collection
A week after the rains of early April 1956, the cotton fields in the Rio Grande Valley had finally dried enough to ... Read More »
A World-Class Art Museum Arrives in the Texas Hill Country
At Arthouse, a new museum opening this spring in Marble Falls, the inaugural exhibition highlights an ... Read More »
Texas Main Streets Make Big Dreams Come True in Small Towns
Nitia Musico recalls the moment she realized that she and her husband, Mike, made the right decision to move from ... Read More »
NFL Linebacker Derrick Johnson Inspires Kids On and Off the Field
For much of his life, Derrick Johnson spent weekends striking fear into the hearts of men. If the 6-foot-3 ... Read More »
What Bluebonnets Mean to Coahuiltecan Descendants
Springtime in Texas is marked by deep shades of indigo peppering the roadside. Patches of bluebonnets paint ... Read More »
The Fort Worth Light Bulb That Never Goes Out
The Fort Worth Light Bulb That Never Goes Out At 117 years old, a Palace Theater relic is the world’s ... Read More »
Vintage: Fredericksburg’s Easter Fires
Some celebrate Easter with church services. Some do it with chocolate eggs. In Fredericksburg, the Saturday ... Read More »
Arlington’s National Medal of Honor Museum Rises to the Occasion
The National Medal of Honor Museum stands at attention in downtown Arlington, a solemn testament to American ... Read More »
Seeing the Rio Grande in a Different Light
OPEN ROADthe sky will always be therea nighttime canoe trip shows the rio grande in a different lightBy RACHEL ... Read More »
Indigenous Legends Tell Stories of the Texas Night Sky
In the Face of Stars INDIGENOUS ORIGIN STORIES TRACE THE GRAND DESIGN OF THE NIGHT SKY By ire'ne ... Read More »
A Forestry Museum Grows in East Texas
Nearly 100 years ago, the Piney Woods of East Texas were being clear-cut at an alarming rate, their timber shipped ... Read More »