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A New Chapter Is Unfolding in Greenville

May 30, 2023 | By Christopher Collins

A Pampa Native Seeks Clarity in the Texas Panhandle

May 30, 2023 | By Bill Cotter

Retracing a Grandfather’s Footsteps in Big Bend

May 30, 2023 | By Clayton Maxwell

Fort Worth Author Jeff Guinn Has a Thing for Madmen

May 30, 2023 | By Sarah Hepola

Jeff Guinn looks like a benevolent uncle as he sits in the leather booth of Paris Coffee Shop, a historic diner in his longtime home of Fort Worth.

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

May 25, 2023 | By Clayton Maxwell

When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job.
On some days, the longest-serving guide at the Texas State Capitol will ascend the building’s ornate cast-iron staircases hundreds of times, greeting many of the people she passes there by name.

In Remembrance of Inimitable Texas Writer John Nova Lomax

May 23, 2023 | By Joe Nick Patoski

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

May 10, 2023 | By W.K. Stratton

I had my one encounter with honest-to-goodness cedar choppers just about the time those “almost mythical, gypsy-like people,” as Texas literary legend Edwin “Bud” Shrake referred to them in an essay, were disappearing from the Hill Country.

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

May 5, 2023 | By Turk Pipkin

Musicians Go Wild on New Album Celebrating Texas State Parks

May 2, 2023 | By Joe Gross

A few years ago, Anne Brown had an idea. As the executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, she started contemplating the centennial of the Texas State Parks system in 2023 and how the organization could celebrate it.

Beekeeping for the End of the World

May 2, 2023 | By Celia Bell

A Look to the Future of Texas State Parks

May 2, 2023 | By Matt Joyce

Andrew Sansom got his first job in 1959 as a lifeguard at Lake Jackson Municipal Pool in his hometown about 55 miles south of Houston.

Building Community in the East Texas Town of Athens

May 2, 2023 | By Regina L. Burns

Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker

April 26, 2023 | By Steven Hughes

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

March 31, 2023 | By Greg Wakeman

The Texas connections run deep in Swarm.
The satirical, psychological thriller TV series, which premiered at South by Southwest in March, revolves around Dre (played by Dominique Fishback), a young woman whose obsession with Ni-Jah, a pop star who was heavily inspired by Beyoncé, leads her down a grisly path.

The June 2023 cover of Texas Highways Magazine

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