Clayton Maxwell
The Cabinet Oak Project Celebrates Art, a Historic Tree, and LBJ’s Legacy
April 19, 2023
If only this branch could talk. During a 2020 thunderstorm, a giant limb of a 300-year-old live oak at the Lyndon B.
Houston’s 1940 Air Terminal Museum Preserves the Culture of Flight
February 14, 2023
From a frieze over the entryway of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Mercury, the Roman god of messengers, reaches out to approaching passengers.
‘Field of Light’ Shines Bright at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
September 9, 2022
This September, London-born large-scale light artist Bruce Munro illuminates the Central Texas landscape. Field of Light, an installation of 28,000 solar-powered glowing orbs, converts a 16-acre field at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center into a pulsing multicolored wonderland.
Get Away From Distractions by Taking a Solo Retreat in the Texas Hill Country
June 9, 2021
Surrounded by windows and white pillows while in bed at my tiny cabin, I think of the liner notes to Bob Dylan’s album Desire: “These notes are being written in a bathtub in Maine under ideal conditions…” Here at Getaway Hill Country, I am also writing under ideal conditions: quiet, simplicity, good coffee.
Take a Tour of Horton Foote’s Wharton with Director Anne Rapp
October 22, 2020
One of the most poignant images in director Anne Rapp’s documentary, Horton Foote, The Road to Home, is that of the esteemed Texan playwright sitting on his front porch swing in Wharton.
Dr. James Ayres Reflects on 50 Years of the University of Texas at Austin’s Shakespeare at Winedale Program
August 13, 2020
In the fall of 1970, at a luncheon at the Winedale Historical Center in Round Top, philanthropist Ms.
Small-Town Business Spotlight: No Stranger to Hard Times, Salado Pivots to Stay Afloat During the Pandemic
August 10, 2020
Mr. Van Bibber made me do it. I had to order his Strawberry Kiss dessert, the Stagecoach Inn Restaurant’s piece de resistance that beckons travelers to Salado just to dip their spoon into this ice cream topped merengue confection slathered in strawberry sauce.
New Album From Sarah Jarosz Reflects on Her Texas Roots and Hometown of Wimberley
June 4, 2020
When concert halls are closed and the energy of live music is off limits, World on the Ground, Sarah Jarosz’s meditation on her Texas roots in Wimberley, is music to turn up loud and let fill the walls of your home.
