Eat My Words
November 18, 2015
Cultivating the Future Grape Growers of Texas
Mason ISD launched a high school viticulture program to help create the next crop of Texas's grape growers.
Mason
BBQ
September 2, 2014
Getting Your Goat
You’d think finding good barbecued goat in the Texas Hill Country wouldn’t be so difficult. This area has been the U.S. epicenter of sheep and goat ranching since the nineteenth century when wool and mohair (wool from goats) production took a foothold. Herds expanded greatly in the twentieth century, and while numbers have fallen in this
Food & Drink
February 18, 2014
Transforming Mason Into a Wine Mecca
How Don Pullum of Sandstone Cellars is turning this sleepy little Hill Country town into a stronghold for Texas wines.
Loaded
May 16, 2013
The Smile Machine
Perry and his pals celebrated the release of the first precision-guided firearms at the Mason ranch of TrackingPoint founder John McHale.
Food & Drink
January 20, 2013
Honorable Mentions
Nineteen joints we couldn’t countenance not noting at all.AMARILLO Beans N Things A cozy country cafe plunked down on a busy city street. 806-373-7383BRADY Hard Eight Pit Bar-B-Que Meats are cooked cowboy style directly over hot mesquite coals. 325-597-1936DALLAS Baby Back Shak
Texas History
January 20, 2013
Squares
A masterpiece of courthouse architecture in Waxahachie, a handsome jail of native stone in Marfa: Significant structures line the streets of five terrific town centers.
BBQ Joint Reviews
April 24, 2012
Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que – Statewide (Mason)
This is the original. Started by George Cooper in 1953, but sold to Duard Dockal (who still runs it) in 1983. This is where the family traditions of cooking directly over mesquite coals and ordering straight from the pit were born. It was one of my favorites of mine and
Travel & Outdoors
December 31, 1969
Head for the Hills
A grand old opry in Mason, a homestyle bakery in Llano, a cabin with a view of the Sabinal Canyon, and sixteen other things I love about the Hill Country.