A Pampa Native Seeks Clarity in the Texas Panhandle
Open Road | June 2023 Tabula Rasa A Pampa native grows homesick ... Read More »
How Three Men in Wheelchairs Summited Guadalupe Peak in the Early 1980s
A mile above the West Texas badlands, a desert thunderstorm is unleashing its fury on the Guadalupe Mountains. ... Read More »
Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend
For most lovers of Big Bend National Park, the landscape evokes tales of momentous adventures and jaw-dropping ... Read More »
Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen
Jeff Guinn looks like a benevolent uncle as he sits in the leather booth of Paris Coffee Shop, a historic ... Read More »
Pretty as a Picture in Van Horn
On a March morning while waiting to shoot photos of the Clark Hotel Museum in Van Horn for “Weekend Wayfinder,” ... Read More »
Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide
When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job. On some days, the longest-serving guide at ... Read More »
A Hotel Haunted by a Ghost Cat and Other Spooky Tales in New Braunfels
Just as we were leaving the restaurant on the outskirts of New Braunfels, we saw a black sky turn purple and ... Read More »
In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax
Texas Highways writer-at-large and chronicler of the curious dies at 53 John Nova Lomax was Houston from the ... Read More »
Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend
Kelly Willis is feeling liberated. After decades being a wife, mother, and singer always on the verge of ... Read More »
After More Than a Decade, Books Are Back in Brownsville
The window display of Búho’s downtown Brownsville storefront features a recently released Jodi Picoult novel, a ... Read More »
A Musical About El Camino Real de los Tejas Cranks Out a Colorful History
There are two great stories of Texas, as far as Brian Beattie is concerned. One is the Alamo, about which much ... Read More »
Seventy Years Ago, Cedar Choppers Ruled the Hill Country with Axes and Muscle
I had my one encounter with honest-to-goodness cedar choppers just about the time those “almost mythical, ... Read More »