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Kinky Friedman Introduces Gold Star Kids to the Land That Shaped Him

The larger than life figure and his sister, Marcie, have opened their family’s Medina-area summer camp to the children of fallen soldiers

By Joe Nick Patoski
April 28, 2022

Fuel

How Goats Went From Overgrazing Villains to Brush-Clearing Heroes

By Asher Elbein
April 28, 2022
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Vintage

How Prison Labor Helped Build the Texas Capitol in the 1880s

By Traces of Texas
April 28, 2022

Open Road

The Healing Power of the Texas Landscape

By Fowzia Karimi
April 28, 2022

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Like a Local

Generations of Texans Have Flocked to Concan for the Frio River and Neal’s Dining Room

By Heather Brand
April 28, 2022

With a New Album Out, 81-Year-Old Delbert McClinton Reflects on His Six-Decade Career

By Joe Nick Patoski
April 22, 2022

It Wouldn’t Be Wedding Season in Texas Without the Grand March

By Lisa Bubert
April 15, 2022

William Clark Green Finds a Muse in the People and Places of Small-Town Texas

By Heather Brand
April 14, 2022
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Lockhart’s Library Is the Oldest in Texas Still in Its Original Building

By S. Kirk Walsh
April 6, 2022

Sports

Volksmarching Brings Texans Together for Fitness and Camaraderie

By Katie Gutierrez
March 24, 2022
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Fuel

Cookbook Historian Toni Tipton-Martin Highlights the Contributions of Black Cooks in American Food History

By Ellen Sweets
March 24, 2022
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Drive

See Texas’ First Airplane at Midland International Airport

By Julia Jones
March 24, 2022
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Like a Local

Pharmacist Lonnie Meredith Found a Calling and Community in Haskell

By Russell A. Graves
March 24, 2022
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The Cold War, Texas, and the Birth of Space City

By Anthony Head
March 24, 2022
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