Texas’ First Film Studio Stood in San Antonio’s Padre Park
Star Film Ranch, a former silent filmmaking studio in San Antonio, is just dust in the wind, but author and ... Read More »
The Galveston Legend of the Infamous Pirate Jean Lafitte
On Galveston Island’s east end, behind a rusting chain-link fence, the concrete bones of an old structure sit ... Read More »
A Peaceful Day on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville in 1910
Texans have always had a reverence for water, perhaps because we live on the edge of where it’s abundant and ... Read More »
A 1939 Photograph Captures Fishermen on a Corpus Christi Pier
Fishing is a great equalizer. A fish doesn’t care whether you have a fancy rod or, like these men on a Corpus ... Read More »
How Juneteenth Brought Emancipation to Enslaved People in Texas
For several of my adolescent years in the 1960s, my family motored 45 miles northwest on US 290 from southeast ... Read More »
The Texas League Takes the Field for the State’s Oldest Circuit of Pro Baseball
When a baseball league has been around for more than a century, you know it’s got some stories to tell. That’s ... Read More »
Find the Roots of Cinco de Mayo in the Story of Ignacio Zaragoza
General Ignacio Zaragoza stands 10 feet tall in Goliad. His bronze countenance permanently cast, Zaragoza gazes ... Read More »
Governor Coke Stevenson Takes the Davis Mountain Scenic Loop in 1958
In summertime, Texans’ thoughts instinctively turn to wide-open spaces. Such was the case when former Gov. ... Read More »
Sightseers have been marveling at Big Bend’s signature canyon for more than 100 years
When daily life gets too crazy, Texans often head to the Big Bend to commune with coyotes and dance in the ... Read More »
The Alamo Bootleg Delves into Lesser-Known Stories of the Most Famous Battle of the Texas Revolution
The Alamo Bootleg, a concept album slated for July release, features country singers Charley Pride and Robert Ellis excavating Alamo stories new and old. Read More »
The Texas Basketball Museum Keeps a Hoop Dream Alive in Carmine
A tasty kolache at Weikel’s Bakery. A porcelain flower vase at an antiques shop. Bluebonnets poking through ... Read More »
Musical Savant T Bone Burnett Stakes His Claim to Fort Worth
The City of Fort Worth has bestowed upon St. Louis Avenue the honorary name T Bone Burnett Boulevard, after the iconic music producer behind the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Read More »
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