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December 2021

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Visit These 100-Year Old Texas Landmarks That Have Stood the Test of Time

From the country’s first drive-in restaurant chain to the workwear company that became a hip-hop stable, celebrate—and visit—these spots that just joined the century club

November 25, 2021

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Feature

Follow Texas’ Indigenous Roots Along El Camino Real de los Tejas

By ire'ne lara silva
November 24, 2021

Feature

The Legacy of Blind Lemon Jefferson in Deep Ellum

By Clayton Maxwell
November 24, 2021
A group of people sit and stand around an ornate carriage with a ferris wheel in the background

Vintage

A Traveling Show Rolls into Small-Town Texas in 1921

By Traces of Texas
November 24, 2021
A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a stone sign reading "Kerrville"

The Daytripper

The Daytripper Finds Rustic Relaxation on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville

By Chet Garner
November 24, 2021
A woman sits looking out the window

Fuel

A New Book Explores the Lost African American Restaurants of Galveston

By Kimya Kavehkar
November 24, 2021
A person in an astronaut suit stands next to a Texas flag underneath a large purple and black night sky filled with stars

Sightseer

Going Galactic in The Big Bend of West Texas

November 24, 2021

Fuel

A Corpus Christi Distiller Has Made a Near-Perfect Chartreuse Dupe

By Ruvani de Silva
November 24, 2021

Speaking of Texas

Historian H.W. Brands Unravels Key Moments in American History

By Matt Joyce
November 24, 2021
A man in a tan vest and purple shirt stands in the doorway of a wodden house with a dark gray shingle roof

Getaway

Find a Spring-Fed Pool and Frontier History at Fort Clark and Bracketville

By Sarah Thurmond
November 24, 2021
Tall green and yellow trees grow from a large body of water

Editor's Note

Built to Last

By Emily Roberts Stone
November 24, 2021
A white building with green shutters peeks through lush green bushes

Texana

The French Legation in Austin Echoes With Wild Tales of Texas’ First Days as a Republic

By James L. Haley
November 24, 2021
Bright red fireworks illuminate the back of a purple-white building with a crowd of people in front

Getaway

Have Yourself a Merry Little Weekend in the ‘Christmas Capital of Texas’

By Cynthia J. Drake
November 24, 2021
The outside of a white adobe building with a red and white checkered walkway

Drive

Everything You Need to Know About Texas State Historical Markers

By Julia Jones
November 24, 2021
A large gray skeleton of a dinosaur towers over a second smaller skeleton inside of a museum

Drive

The Alamosaurus Dwarfs Everything Else at the Perot Museum

By Asher Elbein
November 24, 2021

Fuel

Fossati’s Delicatessen in Victoria Is the Oldest Deli in Texas

By Joe Nick Patoski
November 24, 2021

Open Road

A Mother’s Quest to Give Her Autistic Son an Untethered Childhood

By May Cobb
November 24, 2021
The red brick exterior of a church with a large steeple on the right side, shorter one on the left side, and two people standing out front

Drive

The Church at the Heart of El Paso’s Segundo Barrio

By Roberto José Andrade Franco
November 24, 2021

December 2021

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