Suddenly, the name Edith Whatley McKanna is big news again. It was decades ago when McKanna, who grew up in the Scurry County community of Fluvanna, became the first woman in Texas to get a pilot’s license and to own her own plane. Her name was big again when she became a member of the
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In Atlanta, Texas, Residents Follow Hometown Heroine’s Flight Path
The Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum Features Toys That Really Fly
Underground treasure potential has lured sailors and seekers to Texas for centuries. Whether it was gold, silver, oil, topaz, or…
A LONG A WINDING CREEK northeast of Waco, Texas, the Cleng Peerson Memorial Highway leads from the hamlet of Cranfills Gap into Clifton,…
As with many European groups who faced religious oppression in the middle nineteenth century, the Wends—a community of Lutheran Christians—opted…
In December 1854, a bedraggled group of peasants from Poland gathered beneath a live oak tree for a Christmastime Mass.…
Folks in Navasota may be “singin’ the blues,” but it’s not because they’re in despair. Just the opposite, in fact.…
West Texas dancehalls don’t come any more than a notable bare-bones affair situated a mile and a half northeast of…
In the heart of cowboy country, centrally located between Waco, Abilene and Fort Worth, lies a community small in size…