If you blink, you might drive right past the tiny community of Grosvenor without noticing it. That would truly be a shame. While there’s basically nothing there but the Grosvenor Baptist Church, a few houses and an

A few years back, I was working on a story about modern day cowboys in Texas. I had a chance to watch an old school roundup out in Hamilton County, where they had 20 or so riders

In last week’s column about the Spanish presence in Brown County, I quoted Jay Longley’s remembrance about a Spanish cannonball made of silver that was found inside the city limits of Brownwood. As it turns out, the

“To seek El Dorado, the conquistadors for a hundred years and more marched and countermarched from one extremity of half of the western hemisphere to the other, spending the lives of tens of thousands of men and

There are a few places my husband and I go to hear the sounds of wind in the grass and trees. To do this, you need a spot that is very quiet, away from town and busy

Strange lights in the sky are popping up in news reports across the country. It’s almost an atavistic instinct to expect some kind of trouble to drop from the sky, and nothing scares people quite like an

When my son was younger, he roamed with a pack of neighborhood boys in the summer, looking for things to do. The kids had an idea to build a treehouse part of the way up Santa Anna

“In the fall of 1872, I went to Brown County, where I was hired by Bob Terrell. He was trading dry goods for cattle, and was camped in an old log house, eight miles above Brownwood, on

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