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

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