October 2022 In This Issue Features An Ode to the Native Chile Pequin, the ‘Mother of All Peppers’ There’s Never Been A Better Time to Visit Fort Worth Cemetery Strolls Offer an Opportunity to Meditate on Life’s Big Questions Departments Editor’s Note Valley Roots My Hometown A Hitchcock Native Preserves the Diverse History of the Texas Gulf Coast Open Road Get Home Before Sundown or La Llorona Might Get You Speaking of Texas In Praise of Tex-Mex with TV Chef Pati Jinich Texana The Comanche Trail in Big Bend Recalls a Bygone Era of Tribal Raids into Mexico Getaway A Weekend in McAllen Reveals the Bounty of Rio Grande Valley Drive / Atlas What the Heck is a Ghost Town? Drive / Family The Lone Star Gourd Festival Shows the Versatility of the Fruit Drive / Detour Inside the Effort for Black Cemeteries to Gain Historical Status Plates Dine with the Dead at Monteleone’s Ristorante in El Paso Plates Project Pollo’s Plans to Take Its Vegan Chicken National Vintage A Look At Terlingua’s Chili Origins Daytripper The Daytripper Visits North Dallas’ Eclectic Food Scene and First-Class Museums Sightseer After Dark at the Fort Worth Stockyards