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After the Smoke Clears

After the Smoke Clears

The drive north from Amarillo to Canadian takes about an hour and a half. The flat, yellow land eventually turns ... Read More »

Hit Refresh at Boykin Springs Lake

Hit Refresh at Boykin Springs Lake

This time of year you’ve got to find a way to beat the heat. Sure, you could stay inside for the season, soaking ... Read More »

A New Book Revisits Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic

A New Book Revisits Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic

In the spring of 1995, Dave Dalton Thomas, a self-described “copy editor with a writing problem,” at the San ... Read More »

The Dixie Chicken Celebrates 50 Years in Aggieland

The Dixie Chicken Celebrates 50 Years in Aggieland

  Brig. Gen. Patrick Michaelis has served his country in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. And he’s been ... Read More »

Black Rodeos Are a Storied Texas Tradition

Black Rodeos Are a Storied Texas Tradition

The love for Black rodeo was passed down through Krishaun Adair’s bloodline. As a child, Adair participated in ... Read More »

Fifty Years of Cadillac Ranch

Fifty Years of Cadillac Ranch

Fifty years ago on the summer solstice, three experimental architects and artists completed Amarillo’s iconic ... Read More »

The Heyday of Aquarena Springs

The Heyday of Aquarena Springs

The weirdest and most wonderful water park Texas has ever seen opened on Spring Lake in San Marcos in 1950. At ... Read More »

Catch a Show at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Theater

Catch a Show at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Theater

The only free-standing theater designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright ever built is located in Dallas’ ... Read More »

Victoria’s Bicentennial Trolley Tour Is the Most Coveted Ticket in Town

Victoria’s Bicentennial Trolley Tour Is the Most Coveted Ticket in Town

As I walk around the 1892 Victoria County Courthouse, the first stop on the Bicentennial 2024 Old Victoria ... Read More »

On Top of the World at Big Bend National Park

On Top of the World at Big Bend National Park

The air is rare at the top of Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre expanse of towering mesas and deep river ... Read More »

How Texas Has Led Energy Booms for Over a Century

How Texas Has Led Energy Booms for Over a Century

My muscles shake as I climb up the inside of a seemingly endless vertical tunnel, stopping at platforms along ... Read More »

A Historic Beyoncé Tour in Houston Digs Into Her Texas Roots

A Historic Beyoncé Tour in Houston Digs Into Her Texas Roots

When Beyoncé announced in a commercial during this year’s Super Bowl that a new album was dropping March 29, ... Read More »

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