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As the crisis of World War II swept the nation, Dorothy Ann Smith Lucas—affectionately known as Dottie—and 1,102 other Women Airforce Service Pilots(WASP) of the Greatest Generation— didn’t realize they would serve as trailblazers for women in aviation.
…And the men who made the plane that trained the flyers that won the war.
Dallas’s renowned airport is rich with history.
What does an East Texas town of 3,500 with a downtown youth council, a Panhandle…
Planning a three-hour tour around Canyon, Texas? Maybe a visit to the Panhandle-Plains Historic Museum,…
On an unusually brisk April afternoon in 2018, county residents packed the courthouse square in…
In Andrews, Texas, half a century ago, two best friends had a common goal to…
Viewing the site, it’s easy to imagine a rocky, brush-strewn hill outside Jerusalem. Looking up,…
A Dallas real estate tycoon who never had the chance to attend college and his…
In the 1840s Germany was plagued with overpopulation. There was barely enough farmland to raise…
A celebration of color, shape, and texture greets the view of visitors to a unique cultural…
Planning a three-hour tour around Canyon, Texas? Maybe a visit to the Panhandle-Plains Historic Museum,…
C ome December, the place to intimately know Christmas and all of its meaning is the…
Iranian-born Esfandiarys serve up traditional West Texas fare with the best of them
Chef Kaiser Lashkari’s Himalaya Restaurant wasn’t the first eatery in what is now known as…
In December 1854, a bedraggled group of peasants from Poland gathered beneath a live oak…
As with many European groups who faced religious oppression in the middle nineteenth century, the…
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