September 2018 September Features These 10 County Courthouses Show off the Beauty and History of Small-Town Texas Experience One of the Best Live Music Scenes in Texas at Houston’s Silver Slipper Find Museum-Quality Art in These 8 Texas Hotels Departments True Texas Find History and Romance on the Bridges of McLennan County Hit the Road Has Brenham Become the Hamptons of Texas? Drive / Texas Ticket Get a Concentrated Dose of Marfa’s Bohemian Counterculture at El Cosmico’s Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love Drive / Texas Family 7 Ways to Inspire a Love of Art in Your Kids Drive / Made in Texas Frank X. Tolbert 2 Interprets ‘Incredible Creations of Nature’ in the Texas Bird Project Drive / Stay What’s Better Than a Hotel with a Bar? A Hotel with Two Bars and a Bookstore Plates What the Heck Is Sotol? Visit This Hill Country Distillery and Tasting Room and Find Out Plates Opa’s Smokehouse in Fredericksburg Has Kept Generations of Customers Coming Back for More Plates Passionate Chefs Make Boxed Sandwiches A Thing of the Past at These Fort Worth Museums Daytripper The Daytripper Explores Nocona’s Leatherworking Roots Travel Matters After Tackling Topics like Al Qaeda and Scientology, Texas Writer Lawrence Wright Is Now onto Examining the Lone Star State