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Essayist Rick Bass Shares How the Texas Landscape Shaped Him

Essayist Rick Bass Shares How the Texas Landscape Shaped Him

The thing about Texas is she has this gravitational pull on her native children. We all return, even if not ... Read More »

Nederland Pays Tribute to Its Dutch and Cajun Ancestry

Nederland Pays Tribute to Its Dutch and Cajun Ancestry

The swath of land between Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange became known as “the Golden Triangle” after the 1901 ... Read More »

How the Watermelon Queen Cultivated Appreciation for Texas Farmers

How the Watermelon Queen Cultivated Appreciation for Texas Farmers

Landen Addison was 9 years old when her father began cultivating watermelons at their family farm in Brownfield, ... Read More »

Bigger Is Better for Ashley Kidd, 5-Time World Champion Wakesurfer

Bigger Is Better for Ashley Kidd, 5-Time World Champion Wakesurfer

Growing up in Corpus Christi, Ashley Kidd splashed through waves on a boogie board and told her mom that one ... Read More »

A Houston Native Returns Home From Harlem to Heal Alongside His Family

A Houston Native Returns Home From Harlem to Heal Alongside His Family

Open Road  | June 2021 I'll Give You My Last A Houston native ... Read More »

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Site Has Turned Tiny Boca Chica Into a Tourist Attraction

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Site Has Turned Tiny Boca Chica Into a Tourist Attraction

The first humans to land on Mars will likely blast off from a scrubby tidal flat on Boca Chica Bay in South Texas, ... Read More »

Why San Benito Is the ‘Center of the Universe’

Why San Benito Is the ‘Center of the Universe’

To understand why Rogelio Nuñez says the world revolves around San Benito, you have to understand his commitment ... Read More »

How an ‘88 Cadillac Led a Former Dallasite to the Love of His Life

How an ‘88 Cadillac Led a Former Dallasite to the Love of His Life

Open Road  | May 2021 Taken for a Ride A former Dallasite ... Read More »

A Sixth-Generation Texan Searches for the Meaning of Home

A Sixth-Generation Texan Searches for the Meaning of Home

Open Road  | April 2021 Feel Right at Home A sixth-generation ... Read More »

The San Marcos River Brings Life to Martindale

The San Marcos River Brings Life to Martindale

Virginia Parker Condie and her teammates set two records as they paddled to a fourth-place finish in the Texas ... Read More »

The Texas-Size Grandeur of Ben Masters’ Wildlife Documentaries

The Texas-Size Grandeur of Ben Masters’ Wildlife Documentaries

Ben Masters makes films celebrating the wilderness of Texas, propelled by riveting scenes of adventure and ... Read More »

On Top of the World—or at Least the Edwards Plateau—in Rocksprings

On Top of the World—or at Least the Edwards Plateau—in Rocksprings

Perched on top of the Edwards Plateau, Rocksprings dates to the 1880s, when natural springs lured ranchers to the ... Read More »

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