Add the Outdoors and History to Your Holiday Festivities at These Six Texas State Park Events
From Santa’s arrival by airboat at the coast to a traditional Mexican posada out west, Texas state parks are ... Read More »
Musician Ryan Bingham’s Link to Railroad Blues, Under the ‘Big Country Sky’ in Alpine
A theme of several of singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham’s songs is that you can’t truly escape your past. In the ... Read More »
String Theories Prevail at the Festival of Texas Fiddling
The 5th annual Festival of Texas Fiddling in Blanco will demonstrate the instrument’s versatility and how it unifies cultures and ethnicities. Read More »
Escape the Crowds at These 5 Small-Town Holiday Light Spectaculars
5 Small-Town Christmas Lights Displays in Texas These hamlets put on impressive festive shows every year By MM ... Read More »
Stephen Harrigan on His Big and Wonderful Chronicle of Texas
Stephen Harrigan has written about Texas for most of his life. He was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Abilene ... Read More »
Around the Horn: The Craftsmanship and Community of Texas Saddle Shops
The rodeo clown dabbed at the sweat slicking his forehead, careful not to smudge his makeup. It was a Friday ... Read More »
From Red Rio Grapefruit to Aggie-Colored Carrots, How Farmers and Scientists Invent Truly Texas Produce
During the 1920s, McAllen citrus grower A.E. Henninger discovered a red-tinged grapefruit among his pinks. The ... Read More »
Photo: Fort Worth families made the most of this snowy day in January 1889
Winter in Texas means everything from Christmas tamales to New Year’s black-eyed peas, Gulf Coast fishing to ... Read More »
A Fredericksburg Native Reckons With His Hometown’s Evolution From a German Enclave to a Tourist Destination
“Do you know much about this town?” “I suppose so,” I answered. I was starting across Main Street in ... Read More »
Artist “Cimi” Alvarado Teaches History Through the Murals of El Segundo Barrio
It’s sprinkling rain and the surrounding desert smells of wet dirt as Jesus “Cimi” Alvarado, an artist and an arts ... Read More »
My Hometown: Bay City, agricultural town on the Bay Prairie
Bay City sprouted from the fertile bottomlands that stretch between the Colorado River and Caney Creek, just ... Read More »
Q&A with Amarillo Author Jodi Thomas About Her New Texas Historical Christmas Novel
A Texas Kind of Christmas, a new historical romance novel by Rachael Mills, Celia Bonaduce, and best-selling Amarillo author Jodi Thomas, takes readers back to Christmas Eve, 1859 Read More »