Culture

It Wouldn’t Be Wedding Season in Texas Without the Grand March

It Wouldn’t Be Wedding Season in Texas Without the Grand March

The dance starts with our elders. Two old-timers who know what it means to spend decades together in marriage ... Read More »

William Clark Green Finds a Muse in the People and Places of Small-Town Texas

William Clark Green Finds a Muse in the People and Places of Small-Town Texas

Even though singer-songwriter William Clark Green now calls the big city of Fort Worth home, his upbringing in ... Read More »

Lockhart’s Library Is the Oldest in Texas Still in Its Original Building

Lockhart’s Library Is the Oldest in Texas Still in Its Original Building

Step inside the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart and you’re immediately met by an “old library” scent—woody, ... Read More »

Volksmarching Brings Texans Together for Fitness and Camaraderie

Volksmarching Brings Texans Together for Fitness and Camaraderie

U.S. Army lieutenant Susan Medlin was stationed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1984, the year before the Bavarian city’s ... Read More »

Cookbook Historian Toni Tipton-Martin Highlights the Contributions of Black Cooks in American Food History

Cookbook Historian Toni Tipton-Martin Highlights the Contributions of Black Cooks in American Food History

When speaking at events, Toni Tipton-Martin engages her audiences with historical images depicting African ... Read More »

See Texas’ First Airplane at Midland International Airport

See Texas’ First Airplane at Midland International Airport

The small crowd that witnessed the first flight of John Valentine Pliska’s airplane likely held its collective ... Read More »

The Cold War, Texas, and the Birth of Space City

The Cold War, Texas, and the Birth of Space City

Sixty years ago this April, NASA broke ground near Clear Lake to construct a new command post for manned space ... Read More »

Fort Worth’s Blind Alley Projects Kicks off Their 2022 Exhibition Schedule

Fort Worth’s Blind Alley Projects Kicks off Their 2022 Exhibition Schedule

Blind Alley Projects sits right off the street in a quiet residential neighborhood a few blocks north of the ... Read More »

Roadside Oddity: The Cartoon Saloon’s Sweet Spot ‘Between Comfort and Welfare’

Roadside Oddity: The Cartoon Saloon’s Sweet Spot ‘Between Comfort and Welfare’

It all started with a bunch of empty Lone Star Beer cans. In December 2013, J.P. Rankin, aka “the Cartoon ... Read More »

Pitmasters Share How To Make a Texas-Style Smoked Burger

Pitmasters Share How To Make a Texas-Style Smoked Burger

If your burger obsession spills onto Instagram, like mine does, you may have picked up on the trend of smoked ... Read More »

Welcome to South Texas’ House of Immaculate Glass

Welcome to South Texas’ House of Immaculate Glass

Editor's Note: A shorter version of this story appeared in the June 2022 issue of Texas Highways. Walking into ... Read More »

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