Day Trips

The Crandall Cotton Gin Restaurant offers comfort food cooked all sorts of ways

"...farmers when the railroad was built in 1880. The blackland prairie was ideal for growing the white fiber, and..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Even GOP reps don't like the burgeoning Northeast Travis waste belt.

"...Judge Sam Biscoe, the Lower Colorado River Authority, the Blackland Prairie Concerned Citizens Association, and a host of others...."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood hits the barbecue backroads with the Travel Channel's Epicurious.

"...three definitive styles of barbecue. We left the lush blackland prairie farmlands around Elgin and Taylor and headed west..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

"...course. In a symbiotic way, the beauty of the Blackland Prairie seems to naturally accept the nine-hole golf course..."

May 9, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Shifting Landscape

Texas Parks & Wildlife at an organizational crossroads

"...state -- among them the Edwards Plateau and the Blackland Prairie, which come together in Travis County...."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Dan Oko

A Whole New Ball Game

Stakeholders say Colorado River Park can serve a lot of different needs.

"...a transitional area, where the Edwards Plateau meets the Blackland Prairie and the dammed water moves into the flowing..."

Dec. 17, 1999 News Feature by Dan Oko

Public Notice

It's time for scary season, the season that has us examining our obsession with the nevermore, puts us in touch with our mortality, and brings us that much closer to our maker (and some of us to Maker's Mark, but that's another story -- ).

"...Improvements of Springdale Park, a 14.5-acre ripple of rolling Blackland Prairie, now home to playscapes, benches, sidewalks, picnic tables,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...Brazos, endangering a whole way of life in the blackland prairie of Central Texas. Calling themselves Neighbors for Neighbors,..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Day Trips

"...of Dallas and in the middle of the fertile blackland prairie, Waxahachie prospered during the first half of the..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...south of Bryan, preserving a wilderness cross section of Blackland Prairie and post-oak savannah. Relatively few modern-day explorers have..."

March 13, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Black Eastsiders: Powers a Friend

Will the next UT president continue Powers' work repairing the relationship between UT and East Austin?

"...has been easing. Bo McCarver, board chair of the Blackland Com­munity Development Corporation, formed after the UT annexations in..."

July 18, 2014 News Feature by Jessica Luther

Into the Woods

Cherrywood Neighbors' Journey of Change

"...Hyde Park, Hancock, and Ridgetop to the west, and Blackland, Swede Hill, and Chestnut Hill to the south -..."

Feb. 27, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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