A seemingly empty plot of ground in Greenleaf Cemetery holds the remains of people who lived and died at the county poor farm around the turn of the previous century. It’s kind of a sad story, as

While out on a morning beauty drive along Turkey Peak Road down east of Early, listening to the new Turnpike Troubadours album (which is amazing, by the way) we noticed bunches of purple verbena that like growing

My husband and I had the pleasure of talking with Joshua Furry and his lifelong friend Clint Tunnell last weekend. Joshua and Clint grew up together in Blanket, and are best friends since kindergarten, which they both

My friend and fellow columnist Don Newbury suggested a column on the history of the Brownwood airport. What I found while reading about it, is that there is a lot of prehistory, air transport before the airport

My grandpa was a mapmaker. I used to spend hours in his room, where he had maps spread out everywhere–maps of caves, the moon, railroad lines and topographic maps. I guess that is how I developed a

The morning sunlight streams in through the wood framed windows of Trickham’s Union Church. Old-fashioned plaster walls reflect gently back some of the light, filling the sanctuary with an almost luminous glow. Strains from a fiddle ring

If you’ve ever walked the grounds of Howard Payne University or driven past the unusual, kind of turreted Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom, also known as the Main Hall, you’ve brushed up against a piece of Brownwood

“My father had the urge for the frontier West, and, after two years in Mississippi, made the long journey by wagon to what is now Brown County, Texas, locating about three miles south of the present city

The more I hear about artificial intelligence taking over the world and running people’s minds, the more my instinct grows to revisit the past. To understand what happened around us–to dig into the characters, land and events

Cold fronts always seem colder when it’s been unusually warm. While that is true this week, as we get through a pretty sharp temperature drop, it was much more true four years ago, during the great freeze

Tragic stories of love lost used to be more popular than they are now. While it might not be as satisfying to hear about a hopeless romance with a sad ending, there is a value there. A

From time to time, there are people who stand out in a community, individuals who embody the traditions and spirit of a place. Johnny Cleveland from Blanket was one of those people; a man whose life touched