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Olive & Well

Olive & Well

Apparently feral pigs like olives. I am walking through narrow rows of arbequina olive trees on the outskirts of ... Read More »

An Aqueous Asylum

It’s the sound that captures most people’s attention: the roar of 10,500 gallons of water per minute hurtling down ... Read More »

Fun Begins with Roux

Fun Begins with Roux

The “Down the Bayou Cooking” banner strung above Zachary Taylor’s booth in an oak motte in the hills above Medina ... Read More »

Extraordinary Texans: Margo Martindale

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

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

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.

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

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

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 »

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