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Street Smart in Historic Downtown Jefferson
Eat and antique your way along the brick-paved streets of this charming East Texas town, which has everything from a long-faced West African ritual statue and a needlepoint sampler stitched by a nineteenth-century schoolgirl to Rudyard Kipling’s Wee Willie Winkie and a 1921 copy of Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche.
Sissy Spacek on Growing Up in Quitman
When I was growing up, Quitman was very bucolic. There were a lot of young families involved with school and church activities, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Brownies. I had two older brothers and we fished and tramped through the woods and caught crawdads in the creek. Our parents didn’t worry if we were on the opposite side of town; only one thousand people lived in Quitman, so if you misbehaved, your mother knew it before you got home.
Brittney Griner on Growing Up in Houston
Growing up in a rural area of Houston, I dreamed of flying planes and working on cars—pretty much anything but playing basketball.
Alive and Kicking
Every summer, girls from across the state compete to win a coveted spot on the mother of all drill teams, the Kilgore Rangerettes—a Texas tradition that still has legs.
The King of the Forest
If you inherited a family tradition, a million-acre forest, and a business, how would you decide which one to preserve? Meet Arthur Temple . . .
Hanging in Hemphill
When my mother moved to East Texas, I wasn’t surprised to hear her describe her neighbors as colorful—but she never told me about the gallows.
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