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Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend

Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend

For most lovers of Big Bend National Park, the landscape evokes tales of momentous adventures and jaw-dropping ... Read More »

Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen

Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen

Jeff Guinn looks like a benevolent uncle as he sits in the leather booth of Paris Coffee Shop, a historic ... Read More »

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job. On some days, the longest-serving guide at ... Read More »

In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax

In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax

Texas Highways writer-at-large and chronicler of the curious dies at 53 John Nova Lomax was Houston from the ... Read More »

Seventy Years Ago, Cedar Choppers Ruled the Hill Country with Axes and Muscle

Seventy Years Ago, Cedar Choppers Ruled the Hill Country with Axes and Muscle

I had my one encounter with honest-to-goodness cedar choppers just about the time those “almost mythical, ... Read More »

On His 90th Birthday, Willie Nelson Proved It Ain’t Over Yet

On His 90th Birthday, Willie Nelson Proved It Ain’t Over Yet

I don't share a birthday with Texas legend and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Willie Nelson, but every ... Read More »

Musicians Go Wild on New Album Celebrating Texas State Parks

Musicians Go Wild on New Album Celebrating Texas State Parks

A few years ago, Anne Brown had an idea. As the executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, she ... Read More »

Beekeeping for the End of the World

Beekeeping for the End of the World

Open Road  | May 2023 Hive Mind A beekeeper reconnects with the ... Read More »

A Look to the Future of Texas State Parks

A Look to the Future of Texas State Parks

Andrew Sansom got his first job in 1959 as a lifeguard at Lake Jackson Municipal Pool in his hometown about 55 ... Read More »

Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker

Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker

In the Rio Grande Valley town of San Benito, a small but lively crowd gathered in front of the former home of ... Read More »

Texas Native Janine Nabers Finds Inspiration for ‘Swarm’ in Her Houston Roots

Texas Native Janine Nabers Finds Inspiration for ‘Swarm’ in Her Houston Roots

The Texas connections run deep in Swarm. The satirical, psychological thriller TV series, which premiered at ... Read More »

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