Topic: Texas
After attracting curious visitors for a generation, Texas version of Stonehenge on the moveThe narrow road, lush greenery and low gray skies reminded Michelle Rechka of home. She traced a sharp curve of Farm Road 1340 through a dip where it crosses ...
Family camping and nature go together like the perverbial horse and carriage. Having one without the other leaves the experience somewhat incomplete.Families that flock to campgrounds nearly always choose this adventure holidays as a means to get closer to nature. The National ...
New 'America the Beautiful' series of quarters launches with Hot Springs, 55 more to followThe U.S. Mint's list of quarters highlighting America's national parks. The order of issue is based on when the parks were established. Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas ...
Ruins of historic mission ranch among few remains of original cowboy culture that shaped TexasRuins that archeologists call one of the last links to the original ranches and cowboys that shaped Texas have been kept behind a gate, literally buried, for more ...
Endangered bongo antelope, oldest known in US, euthanized at Zoo Atlanta after health declinesThe oldest known eastern bongo antelope living in captivity has died at Zoo Atlanta.Zoo President and CEO Dennis Kelly said Tuesday that the 19-year-old animal named Mzima was euthanized ...
US Mint list of new national park quarters, in order the coins will be producedThe U.S. Mint announced Wednesday that it will produce a series of quarters highlighting America's national parks, one per state and territory, beginning next year. The coins will ...
Texas museum to open display of 500 cowboy hats from closed storeThe Cow Lot Western Wear store was a place you could hang your hat, literally.The store, which opened in 1953, sold boots and cowboy hats, but customers could leave their old ...
Citing declining health, Texas zoo euthanizes 32-year-old male gorilla with heart problemsA zoo in Texas has euthanized one of its three Western lowland gorillas because of declining health.The Fort Worth Zoo says 32-year-old Kambula (cam-BOO'-lah) was euthanized Thursday because his health rapidly ...
Spring on the Texas Gulf CoastSpring break on the Texas Gulf Coast doesn't just mean college kids on South Padre Island.Port Aransas and Mustang Island are good destinations for families and nature-lovers, with beaches, dolphin tours, water activities and many birding sites.In ...
Texas woman saves junk mail for 395 days, creates art exhibit called 'Free Paper'One person's junk mail is an Austin woman's art. Artist Annette Lawrence saved every scrap of junk mail she received, at her home, for about 13 months and made ...
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