Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

Hempstead, Texas

I went through Baird, Texas , primarily because the tiny town was the county seat, and, therefore, has a county courthouse . The 1929, Class...

*I prefer the twangy version. This is a ghost sign on the back of the Ritz Theatre in Big Spring. It says: "West Texas' Finest ...

I was going to make a diabetes joke, but opted for a milder post title...

Today's history lesson, chitlins, is about Abilene, Texas . Now, first I must admit that every single time I saw the word Abilene, wheth...

John J. Welder Home carriage stone and gate post

Right on Main Street in Edna, Texas , the 1950 Edna Theatre:

...and for that, I must apologize, because there's a whole lot of great stuff (!) I got for the hour and a half or so I was there. If yo...

Art thou familiar.... st with the "Come and Take It" battle flag? This occurred in Gonzales . So, I went and took. And I didn...

The drive to McKinney, Texas , turned out to be a bit longer (30-40 minutes; Garmin usually shaves at least 15 minutes off the Google time)...

For anyone who happened to make it by the Hotel Fredonia in Nacogdoches this past weekend, it was very easy to imagine what it would have ...

Distant morning view of Anderson County Courthouse

The 1897 Judge Stephen W. Blount House in Nacogdoches In her autobiography, A Kind of Magic (1963), Edna Ferber compared Galveston , Te...

This Coca-Cola ghost sign was uncovered last week by a crew working inside of a building at the corner of First and Shepherd Streets in dow...

That "SIMON" neon sign in April 2008....

... What makes your big head so hard?

Honey Grove, Texas