Rockport Archives

February 22, 2023

Finding Weird All Over Again in Rockport

I left homogenized Austin for the Texas Gulf Coast—and felt right at home amid the Speedo-wearing bikers and chicken feet–fed alligators.

By Becca Hensley

Edwards empties the harvested oysters into a bucket on July 20, 2022.

Food & Drink|

November 16, 2022

Relentless Rains, Bedeviled Bureaucrats, and Misplaced Mollusks: The Ill-fated Launch of Texas’s First Oyster Farm

Brad Lomax was stoked until he found himself fighting Mother Nature and supervising 1.5 million babies.

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Texas Country Reporter|

September 29, 2022

Guardian of the Whooping Cranes

One of our most important TCR stories involved a surprise encounter with an early advocate of whooping crane conservation efforts.

By Bob Phillips

Artist Steve Russell poses inside his Rockport studio on July 7, 2021 alongside his latest project,

Art|

August 19, 2021

Controversial Statues Are Falling Across the U.S., but This Texas Town Is Erecting New Ones

In Rockport, a celebrated artist is planning to install sculptures depicting the first contact between European explorers and the Karankawa. Is it a representation of a key moment in the area’s history, or a glorification of colonialism?

By Peter Holley

Wayne White completely covered in his fur parka, coated in a layer of frost.

Travel & Outdoors|

November 5, 2020

Meet an Intrepid Texan Who Spends Winters at the South Pole

Rockport resident Wayne White has worked for much of the last three years in Antarctica, where temperatures of minus 100 degrees don’t keep him from taking his daily walk or jog.

By Pam LeBlanc