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Trey Gutierrez

Whoever came up with the adage “find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life” has obviously never worked a day with Mary Irving, a leading authority on Texas rail history. Over the course of…

Just short of a mile from the Alamo’s front doors stands an equally proud, majestic structure — whose walls tell not the story of folk heroes or conquistadors but of the countless generations of faceless, faithful Texans who — for…

Though only 14 years old at the time, Grace Quebe distinctly remembers the reaction she and her sisters would evoke when taking the stage. “We possessed this ‘wow’ factor,” she explains. “Audiences would see three little girls carrying fiddles and…

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