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 ... 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 »
Meet Isabella Neff, the Mother of Texas State Parks
Gov. Pat Neff, who established the Texas State Parks Board in 1923, wasn’t the only member of his family who ... Read More »
How Longhorn Cavern Was Carved by Hand
As soon as I descend the stairway leading into Longhorn Cavern, the temperature drops. A great rush of air ... Read More »
Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker
In the Rio Grande Valley town of San Benito, a small but lively crowd gathered in front of the former home of ... Read More »
Embracing Tradition and Texas Politics, Cornyation Reigns Over San Antonio’s Fiesta
This spring, the infectious spirit and vibrancy of Fiesta returns to the streets, theaters, and event spaces ... Read More »
The Cabinet Oak Project Celebrates Art, a Historic Tree, and LBJ’s Legacy
If only this branch could talk. During a 2020 thunderstorm, a giant limb of a 300-year-old live oak at the ... Read More »
Austin’s Broken Spoke Dance Hall Finally Gets Its Texas Historical Marker
On what would have been James M. White’s 83rd birthday, friends of the White family, local musicians, ... Read More »
What the Heck Is Cattalo?
Charles Goodnight first encountered bison in late 1845. Moving from Illinois to Texas, his family stopped to camp ... Read More »
Snake Farms Were Big Business in the 1900s Rio Grande Valley
Nobody knows what compelled Joe Guerrero to make his living handling rattlesnakes. But as this circa 1908 ... Read More »
The Return of Dallas’ Legendary Longhorn Ballroom
Asleep at the Wheel was getting ready to play the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on May 13, 1975, when a reporter ... Read More »
Bobbie Nelson’s Grand Piano Finds a Home at the Bullock Texas State History Museum
After Bobbie Nelson passed away in March 2022 at age 91, her son Freddy Fletcher inherited the grand piano she had ... Read More »
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