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Embracing Tradition and Texas Politics, Cornyation Reigns Over San Antonio’s Fiesta

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 »

Waco’s Historic Suspension Bridge Reopens After Getting a Fix-Up

Waco’s Historic Suspension Bridge Reopens After Getting a Fix-Up

When my mother’s family would journey to the big city of Waco from their home in Mexia back in the 1920s and ... Read More »

The Cabinet Oak Project Celebrates Art, a Historic Tree, and LBJ’s Legacy

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 Lyndon ... Read More »

Austin’s Broken Spoke Dance Hall Finally Gets Its Texas Historical Marker

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?

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 »

The Restored Hall of State Tells the Story of Texas at Fair Park

The Restored Hall of State Tells the Story of Texas at Fair Park

Restored in 2020, the art deco Hall of State at Dallas’ Fair Park boasts 76-foot-tall lime-stone pillars, colorful ... Read More »

Snake Farms Were Big Business in the 1900s Rio Grande Valley

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

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

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 »

A Local Boy’s Pioneering Efforts To Protect the Big Thicket in East Texas

A Local Boy’s Pioneering Efforts To Protect the Big Thicket in East Texas

The Big Thicket of Southeast Texas is one of Earth’s most biodiverse regions, home to more than 4,300 ... Read More »

‘Moonshine Capital’ Glen Rose Recalls the Tumultuous Era of Prohibition

‘Moonshine Capital’ Glen Rose Recalls the Tumultuous Era of Prohibition

Red flames flicker under a century-old still at the Somervell County Historical Society Museum in Glen Rose. ... Read More »

Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Reopens Historic Bottling Room with New Exhibition

Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Reopens Historic Bottling Room with New Exhibition

Just a three-block walk from the crowds at Magnolia Market in Waco is the Dr Pepper Museum, where visitors can ... Read More »

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