After watching the most emotional and perhaps the most influential election of my lifetime last week, I learned all sorts of new things about how our system works. Even at my age, I still don’t know it

Reader Cary Wright from Lake Brownwood sent me a thought-provoking email last week. Mentioned were some details about the history of local travel, in particular the old railway lines that used to serve as public transportation, a

The community known as Mukewater, about 4 miles west of Bangs, can’t exactly be described as a ghost town, as it was never much more than a loosely defined neighborhood. Nevertheless, Mukewater had its own school, church

Near the steep, muddy banks of the Colorado River, halfway between Brownwood and Brady, are the remnants of a once prosperous and busy town. My husband and I drove out that way to take a look, and

One thing that the proliferation of the internet into our daily lives has shown for sure is that people will argue over anything. You can say it’s a nice day outside, and like as not someone comes

Before the days of air conditioning and largely indoor living, old trees were an integral part of our lives. They were shade on a hot day, a spot to sit and talk, eat or even hold a

A little over ten miles north from where the San Saba and Colorado Rivers converge, a meeting once took place between Indian agent and Texas State Legislator Robert Simpson Neighbors and several important chiefs from the Penatuhkah

After publishing a column a few weeks ago on the Hunter Stagecoach stop, I was contacted by the owner of the property where it was located, Mandy Martin. Mandy told me that the site of the old

Last week, I noticed some odd looking, pinkish stalks that sprang up in the yard very quickly. I took my dog for a walk that evening, and when we got back, the stalks had exploded into masses

The fascinating case of a missing archeological discovery in Brown County has taken up my entire day, and I’m no closer to understanding this story than I was when I started. The need to investigate began with

Sometimes a road might actually be the oldest historical object around, but old roads don’t often get much credit for their history. They can’t be displayed in a museum, and are often hard to accurately trace and