History

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

Lighter-than-air vehicles, also known as dirigibles or airships, have floated in Texas skies for over a century, ... Read More »

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

At 24 years old, A.J. High took off from Houston as a copilot on the first flight of the newly formed Trans-Texas ... Read More »

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Vintage train rides offer a window into Texas’ locomotive history and a family’s legacy on the tracks By ... Read More »

Painting the Brush

Painting the Brush

The scenic landscapes of the Llano Uplift boast jutting boulders and seasonal spreads of wildflowers. They have ... Read More »

A New Book Looks at 100 Years of Austin Music

A New Book Looks at 100 Years of Austin Music

Austin Music is A Scene Not a Sound is one of the clunkiest book titles I’ve come across in quite a while. But ... Read More »

Take Me Back to AstroWorld

Take Me Back to AstroWorld

Houston is not known for its snow-covered mountains. But in 1968, families flocked to AstroWorld, a homegrown ... Read More »

A Lake Retreat at the Big Thicket National Preserve

A Lake Retreat at the Big Thicket National Preserve

Feast your eyes on the Great Lakes of this great state: Chain-O-Lakes Resort in southeast Texas, where artesian ... Read More »

Commemorating the Centuries-Long History of Black Seminole Scouts

Commemorating the Centuries-Long History of Black Seminole Scouts

Descendants of the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts gather in the arid canyonlands west of Del Rio to hike down a ... Read More »

Preserving Traditional Black Gospel Music

Preserving Traditional Black Gospel Music

Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and ... Read More »

Capturing a Cattle Roundup

Capturing a Cattle Roundup

Here come the Herefords, charging past the pens at Pitchfork Ranch, a 165,000-acre slice of Southern Plains west ... Read More »

Revisiting Cherry Springs, Texas’ Forgotten Dance Hall

Revisiting Cherry Springs, Texas’ Forgotten Dance Hall

In October 1955, an advertisement ran in The Radio Post, a weekly newspaper in Fredericksburg. The syndicated ... Read More »

Texas Travel Counselors Are Ready to Help

Texas Travel Counselors Are Ready to Help

The kids won’t understand, but in the dark ages, before GPS and cellphones, motorists agonized over floppy ... Read More »

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