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Barbara Brannon
On a workaday Tuesday noon, this stretch of historic Route 66 on the west side of Amarillo, Texas, looks like your ordinary Anywhere USA. A few hungry diners trickle into MeMe’s Café. Some seek a quiet booth in the back.…
Start planning and mapping now, and in 2029 you’ll be fully prepared for a cross-country adventure along one of America’s original named highways. That year will mark the culmination of a decade-long centennial of the Old Spanish Trail Highway, a…
“We love to start the day with a ride in the pickup truck . . . And we never take the same road twice on the way back home.” —Jerry Jeff Walker, “Pickup Truck Song” I never picked myself for…
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Terrell’s School Was First for British Fliers
I t’s an irony, no doubt, that the men’s correctional institution operating since 1994 in Mitchell County, located along Interstate 20 on the Rolling Plains of West Texas, honors the name of Daniel Webster Wallace. For Wallace, who died in Mitchell…
O n an October afternoon among tree-lined heights of Canadian, Texas, a hint of fall in the air puts one in mind of the legendary cedar forests of the eastern Mediterranean. Perhaps it’s a stretch to compare this Panhandle river valley…
“Woody Use To Live Here Too” reads the T-shirt I once snagged for $10 at the old Harris Drug Store building on Cuyler Street, the main thoroughfare of Pampa, Texas. Back in 1929 Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, who’d come to…
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