The Stories Behind Texas’ Quirkiest Town Names
What's in a Name? Exploring the stories behind Texas towns’ novel nomenclature By Amanda OgleDriving down highways ... Read More »
The Lost History of Texas Granite that Never Made it to the Capitol
The Texas Capitol is famous for the sunset red granite that gives the building its pinkish exterior, but few ... Read More »
Rinsing Wagons in the San Antonio River
Though small by Texas standards, the San Antonio River has played an outsized role in the state’s history. ... Read More »
How the San Antonio River Walk Became More Than Just a Tourist Attraction
When Hank Lee opened an art gallery next to the San Antonio River in 1989, his new neighbors in San Antonio’s ... Read More »
Rumble Across the Texas Sky With the Commemorative Air Force’s Fleet of Vintage Combat Aircraft
A hulking green plane lumbers down the runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, then lifts into the sky ... Read More »
The Battle Between Two Lizards In Texas Is a Win for UT Arlington Biologists
Prairie lizards and Texas spiny lizards have a lot in common. True, the prairie lizard is a svelte 5 inches, ... Read More »
Big Bend’s Oldest Surviving Adobe Structure Gets a Makeover
Big Bend National Park’s craggy Chihuahuan Desert landscape may seem incongruous with the verdant and neatly ... Read More »
Cockfighting Flourished in Texas in the Early 1900s
Cockfighting goes back to ancient times when cultures including the Greeks and Persians pitted roosters against ... Read More »
The Hill Country Legacy of Old Tunnel State Park
Old Tunnel State Park sits on a brush-covered limestone ridge that divides the watersheds of the Guadalupe and ... Read More »
How Prison Labor Helped Build the Texas Capitol in the 1880s
Plans were already in the works for a new Texas Capitol when a fire burned its predecessor in 1881. To ... Read More »
Lockhart’s Library Is the Oldest in Texas Still in Its Original Building
Step inside the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart and you’re immediately met by an “old library” scent—woody, ... Read More »
See Texas’ First Airplane at Midland International Airport
The small crowd that witnessed the first flight of John Valentine Pliska’s airplane likely held its collective ... Read More »
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