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Writer Wes Ferguson has a lot in common with Shaun Overton, the subject of his story “Green Acres” (Page 40). “We’re about the same age, are not entirely fulfilled by our lives in the suburbs, and both heeded the siren call of cheap land out west,” t

Photographer Kenny Braun was focused on shooting a different scene at The Nature Conservancy’s Independence Creek Preserve in May 2023 when he turned around and saw thousands of fireflies and stars over the creek. “It looked like some mystical scene

From the archive The new Space Center Houston has blasted on the scene at NASA/Johnson Space Center. The state-of-the-art education and entertainment complex, billed as “the closest thing to space on Earth,” provides an adventure into the past, prese

When Brenda Barrio moved to the “funky little town” of Denton to attend the University of North Texas in 2003, she would have never guessed she’d be the university’s assistant vice president of research and innovation 20 years later. “One of our goal

When I was in elementary school and we lived in Colorado, I spent three consecutive summers in Juárez, Mexico. Since my parents worked, there was no one to watch me. So, when school let out, my parents drove nine hours to El Paso, then across the bor

In the early 1990s, Nancy Wrenn drove her minivan around Tyler with the back seats pulled out to accommodate a 3D mock-up on a 4-by-8-foot platform of what would eventually become the Discovery Science Place. The model demonstrated her vision for a p

As Texans get a front-row seat to a magnificent total solar eclipse this month, interest in astronomy has reached a record high. But stargazing in this state is fantastic all the time, not just during eclipses. You only need to travel just outside of

Ask a Texan if they know where La Grange is and they’ll probably tell you one of two things: “I’ve driven past there,” or “Like the ZZ Top song?” Yes, La Grange’s claim to fame is the Chicken Ranch, the famed brothel with “a lotta nice girls,” as ZZ

The desert songbird flits out from the shade, snatching up an insect and returning to its perch on the wing of the replica Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying animals to ever live. I’m standing in the Big Bend Fossil Discovery Exhibit, an open

An urban dweller ventures to far West Texas with a dream to transform a barren desert into a lush forest FRAMED BY THE VASTNESS of the Chihuahuan Desert, a lone man faces the camera. All around him, rough hills roll off into the distance. Clouds trai

Eli Halpern wandered the congested avenues of Bangkok with a growing hunger in his gut and a willingness to try anything. It was a humid night in 2012, and the visiting American martial artist traipsed between the mobile food peddlers and street stal

On 100 acres of land outside Temple, an agricultural revolution is underway. And it doesn’t require a tractor, a plow, or even a shovel. Last summer, Revol Greens, the largest lettuce greenhouse grower in North America, opened a sprawling 20-acre fac

My muscles shake as I climb up the inside of a seemingly endless vertical tunnel, stopping at platforms along the way to catch my breath. Alongside a handful of companions from Invenergy and a photographer, I make my way up a 300-foot wind turbine ne

FREE TRAVEL INFO 1 Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau 2 Alvin Rotary Club 3 Andrews Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau 4 Bullock Texas State History Museum 5 Cedar Park Tourism 6 City of Denison  7 City of Kyle 8 City of Port Isab

A vacant lot just south of downtown Dallas is all that’s left of one of the most influential regional professional wrestling companies in America—the arguable birthplace of mainstream wrestling as we know it today. That lot once housed the iconic Spo

When in Houston, do as the astronauts do. That means investigate moon rocks, attend mission briefings, and see how you fill out a space suit. All that’s possible at the Johnson Space Center, which opened in November 1961 and laid the groundwork for A

The sweet, malty aroma of steamed rice greets you as soon as you hit the parking lot at SuTi Craft Distillery in Kennedale, about 10 miles southeast of Fort Worth. Following that buttery bouquet inside, you’ll find vintage memorabilia that evokes a b