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Puttin’ on the Ritz

Newly renovated lobby featuring handcrafted handrails and restored antique chandelier. Photo courtesy of Jacque Fleming.

For small towns across America, the local movie theater is a vital part of the community, bringing people together, and creating a sense of shared experience. It’s a reflection of neighborhood …

Find a perfect stranger, while supplies last

I do something that most of us have been warned against doing since we were toddlers: I talk to strangers. I don’t hunt them down – that would just be weird – and I don’t …

Time to talk turkey

We Texans are fortunate to live in one of the best states for hunting wild turkey. The Rio Grande species is widely dispersed over much of the state and this is the bird that traveling hunters most …

I was visiting my friends Kristin and Lloyd Shirley over the Christmas holidays at their farm in Jasper, Texas. It was unusually warm for this time of year, and it was time to feed the goats and put …

Our Distant Human History Reconsidered

Television, at its best, should make us think more deeply about everything. But doing so sometimes makes us uncomfortable because deep critical thinking can force us to question some very …

ITTOYHA (Together...United)

I was blessed recently to have the opportunity to travel via chartered bus to Austin for Alabama-Coushatta Day at the State Capitol. The meaningful day – held every other year when the Texas …

I am not a weed

One of my earliest memories is being outside playing at daycare. My favorite activity was scouring the yard, particularly around the fenceline, for my favorite dark purple flower, which I now know …

The Guenther House

While in San Antonio for my husband to attend a conference, our daughter and I scoured the internet from our hotel room looking for a place to eat brunch. While we love the riverwalk and all that it …

Titanic exhibition returns to Dallas

“What a ship! So huge and so magnificently appointed. Our rooms are furnished in the best of taste and most luxuriously, and they are really rooms, not cabins.” – Ida Straus, first …

Squirrels Possibly the Perfect Small Game

Why would I think Mr. Busheytail is the perfect game animal? The reasons are many; squirrels are very challenging to hunt and pursuing them greatly increases one’s hunting knowledge; they will …

FoLL continue to ramp up efforts on Lake Livingston education project

The Friends of Lake Livingston (FoLL) Aquatic Habitat Restoration, Riparian Renewal and Community Conservation Education project covers the entirety of Lake Livingston which is surrounded by four …

Warm Weather Meat Care

Taking care of all that good eating pork after a successful hunt is of prime importance and it’s a relatively easy task when hunting during the cold weather months but, what about those of us that enjoy hunting wild hogs throughout the year?

‘Old School’ Catfishing

A fishing trip last week began as many do, with a telephone conservation. I called my long time friend Jason Barber who guides for about anything that swims to get an update on the fishing for a …

Welcome to Lake Livingston State Park

Fish one of the largest lakes in the state, hike quiet trails through the forest or camp under the trees at Lake Livingston State Park which is located on the east shore just above the dam, occupying …

Groups enjoy the serenity of a day fishing.

Nature with a side of SERVICE & CONSERVATION

As a kid, Allen Schwind would go with his father to a deer lease, and like many people, those times became some of his best memories. Throughout his life, his enjoyment of hunting, fishing and nature walks just grew. Then it grew into a mission.

Places to go

Surprising Moscow, Texas

[above] Looking into the entrance to the Moscow Masonic School Park. Photo by Janice R. Edwards.

Who would have ever thought there would be a town in rural East Texas named Moscow? But just down the road from Livingston, Texas at the junction of U.S. Highway 59 and Farm to Market Road 350 is the …

Power to the people (batteries not included)

It always startles me, even when – tipped off by swaying pines and limbs pelting my house – I suspect that it might happen. After a minute or two . . . I begin to gather my wits and my battery-operated gadgets around me and settle in for what I hope will be a short-lived power outage.

Recalling Leon Hale

Leon Hale and his family’s late Lab, Charlotte Bronte. Photo by Babette Hale.

Leon Hale’s March 16, 2014 column announced his retirement from writing columns after almost 65 years on the job, in aggregate, for the Houston Post and the Houston Chronicle. He deemed it time to retire, 30 years past the time most people quit the rat race.

Hybrid bass stocking program could have huge economic impact

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s (TPW) Inland Fisheries Jasper District Supervisor Todd Driscoll hands a box containing 50,000 fry to TPW Inland Fisheries Biologist Dan Ashe as TPW Technician Ray Lenderman waits in the wings. Photo by Emily Banks Wooten.

An ambitious project kicked off in April that could potentially have huge repercussions for Lake Livingston and the surrounding area for many years to come. Through a project that was about three years in the making . . .(several groups launched) a hybrid bass stocking program, which could result in a significant economic impact on the East Texas area.

Food & Fun• • • • • in Huntsville

[above] The memorial museum is another main entrance for a tour of the grounds. It is here you can learn of Sam Houston’s life in great detail, while viewing some of his personal belongings. Photo by Brian Besch.

This is our third edition of Food and Fun, and I think that means we can call it a series. To this point, we have traveled both north and south. It felt right to head west this time, through the Sam …

ork This Tap That! is located at
26091 TX-105 in Montgomery.

Cork This Tap That!

As we walked across the parking lot toward the entrance, we could see a little covered bandstand outdoors where some live music was already underway. We entered the building and knew immediately that we had made a good decision. We appreciated the funky, homespun vibe that we picked up all around us.

Exploring national parks in AWD Vs. 4WD vehicles

RealTruck.com discusses which of the two most popular off-road drive types—all-wheel-drive (AWD) and four-wheel-drive (4WD)—is best suited for off-roading in National Parks.