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Child in 1836 endured, prevailed after Runaway Scrape

The Columbus house where Dilue Rose Harris, her husband and their nine children lived is open to the public. He was a Texas Ranger who later became Colorado County sheriff.

Before 2017, our year of the flood, passes into history, I wanted to re-introduce an early-day Houstonian who endured her own flood-ravaged year. Dilue Rose Harris, an 11-year-old who experienced the ...

San Antonio writer conjures up Santa's helper on the border

Tejas Kid are among Garza's most popular characters.

SAN ANTONIO - A week or so before Christmas many years ago, 7-year-old Xavier Garza was standing in line with his dad at the Valley Mart in Rio Grande City, waiting for his annual audience with Santa ...

An early Tejano leader speaks to young Mexican-Americans today

Tejano leader Jose Antonio Navarro was a complicated and influential man, historians note. At Casa Navarro in San Antonio, fourth-graders from San Antonio's Hawthorne Academy are introduced to the Tejano figure.

SAN ANTONIO - "We're so far from the Alamo and Ripley's Believe It or Not that we're off the beaten path," Emiliano Calderon was telling me on a warm afternoon this week. Calderon, site educator at the ...

Holley, Brown: The grit of 'Hometown Texas'

The Texas that most Americans know from the headlines, the magazine stories and the movies is not necessarily the Lone Star State that Peter Brown and I know. As a photographer and a writer, we find our ...

'The Rambling Boy' finds a home in old Fort Davis

Downtown Fort Davis still resembles its frontier past

FORT DAVIS - For Lonn Taylor, a most interesting resident of one of the most interesting small towns in Texas, life could have been so very different. In the late 1960s, he married a woman who was heiress ...

Prairie View pianist got his start in a small Texas town

Dr. Danny Kelley, who stills plays concerts regularly, has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Prairie View A&M University for the past 13 years.

PRAIRIE VIEW – Driving to Cameron a couple of weeks ago, the little town southeast of Waco that had the audacity - with native-son Drayton McLane's encouragement - to make a bid for Amazon's second ...

Sutherland Springs residents hope tragedy doesn't define their town

The sanctuary of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs is a temporary memorial in honor of the 26 people who lost their lives.

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS - Like most Texans who don't live in Wilson County, I had never heard of this little town east of San Antonio until horrific tragedy struck Sunday morning a week ago. Finishing up at the ...

Bob Holley and fellow WW II vets are quickly passing from our midst

Bob Holley was in his early 20s when he flew a Grumman TBF Avenger off carriers in the Pacific during World War II.

When my cousin Bob Holley died at age 96 a few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. All of us who knew him lost a good man. Beyond the personal loss, his passing was a reminder that we're all saying goodbye to ...

Characters abound in Texas writer's family history

Growing up in Del Rio, author Roger D. Hodge was familiar with the meandering, shifting course of the Rio Grande. His book "Texas Blood" traces the various ancestral strands that led his family to the area.

AUSTIN - "I never expected to be a professional Texan, one of those writers who wear the lone star like a brand, who play up the drawl and affect pointy boots or a cowboy hat with a tailored suit," Roger ...

A rural county's advice to Amazon: Get out of town (and into the country)

Milam County, created in 1837, is named for Ben Milam, hero of the Texas Revolution.

CAMERON - So, who's it going to be? Austin? Atlanta? Philadelphia? Houston? Which among some 238 applicants from across the country will Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos anoint as his gargantuan company's HQ2? Moody ...

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