Day Trips: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon

The history attic of the Texas Panhandle closes for the foreseeable future

"...The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon is the attic of Texas...."

April 11, 2025 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...of the schools in my district and in the Panhandle and in South Texas and the South Plains, they’re..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Travel news for history buffs, art appreciators, foodies, and more

"...a nearly 84-foot wingspan were trained at the South Plains Army Air Base in Lubbock. In 1950, the Lubbock..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Catch up on Lone Star State news and plan some fall fun

"...Texas wine grapes are produced in the Texas High Plains AVA that spans some 8 million acres, the Texas..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Sweet sheep, Lonesome Dove peeks, and more to see around the state

"...to find the wide-spot in TX35 on the coastal plains southwest Bay City. A renovation in 1977 added modern..."

Aug. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

Beat the heat in San Marcos and have fun at events around the state

"...famous pair of double switchbacks. The view of the plains off to the east is amazing, but seeing bicyclists..."

July 3, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: McPherson Cellars, Lubbock

Meet Kim McPherson, the High Plains vintner

"...showed that wine grapes could flourish in the Texas Panhandle...."

Nov. 3, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

17 Texas Artists to See at ACL Fest

Lone Star acts to catch at Zilker, from Houston breakout d4vd to Austin’s Die Spitz

"...in visions of a "Holy Ghost." The band's lonesome panhandle roots linger in the understated high-plains howl of Lou..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

The Luv Doc: America’s 40th-Best City

Because Ted Cruz is the Rat King

"...– like a German immigrant lured to the windswept plains of the Texas panhandle by a railroad company broadsheet..."

July 28, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Opinion: Regenerative Agriculture Can Save the Southwest

We can end drought by restoring soil and local water cycles

"...in how we grow food. Most kids in the plains are required to watch Dust Bowl footage in school...."

Dec. 2, 2022 Column by Elizabeth Heilman

How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

"...job, he was working in the Museum of the Plains in Perryton, Texas: walking distance from the Oklahoma Panhandle,..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Deep in the Heart

Texas' diverse and precious wildlife gets the documentary it deserves

"...frozen ranges of Caprock Canyons State Park in the Panhandle, where snow-crusted Bison are coming back from near-extinction, to..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

In the Yard: Austin Winery

Pretty much surpassing all your grape expectations

"...from a lot of family-owned vineyards in the High Plains – like, in the Lubbock area. We do a..."

May 12, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips: Texas State Bison Herd, Caprock Canyons State Park, Quitaque

Where the bison roam

"...the park are the descendants of the great Southern Plains herd that nearly went extinct, but Charles and Mary..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Coyote Country Store, Gail

Beautiful scenery and good food at a unique outdoor music venue

"...in Gail is surrounded by scenic mesas as the Panhandle Plains transition into the Rolling Plains. The cafe opens..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: The Giant Legs of Amarillo

Mock tribute to Ozymandias adds quirky character to the Panhandle

"...but always the bodiless limbs hold up the expansive Panhandle sky...."

July 16, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Pho on the coast, statuesque women in Dallas; June is time to hit the road

"...in 1970 the second of two tornadoes hit the Panhandle city. This one cut a 1.5-mile-wide swath through downtown..."

June 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...as "the most startling geographic feature of the High Plains," one that "attacks the eye with its suddenness, as..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...lesser sandhill cranes in North America call the Texas Panhandle its winter home. The magnificent birds with long spindly..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Levelland

Mosaics on the High Plains

"...The Panhandle town 31 miles west of Lubbock calls itself "The..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Explore the Natural Beauty of Texas at These Four State Parks

The best outdoor destinations near Austin are just a road trip away

"...located just south of its more famous and visited Panhandle neighbor, Palo Duro Canyon. Nevertheless, Caprock is worth a..."

May 17, 2019 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

9 Texas Day Trips That Will Inspire You to Hit the Road

We dip our toe in the nearly 1,500 columns from our resident day tripper

"...Park and Trailway outside of Quitaque in the Texas Panhandle seems to catch fire as the first light of..."

May 13, 2019 Events Post by Gerald E. McLeod

A Mile Above Texas

Gorgeous images of land and water shot from the air provide a fresh perspective on the Lone Star State

"...edges, following the Gulf Coast, Sabine River, Red River, Panhandle border, Big Bend, and Rio Grande. Shot from so..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Presidio by Randy Kennedy

For his debut novel, Kennedy creates a road story that portrays the harsh West Texas terrain beautifully and fills it with sympathetic characters.

"...fiction these days. But for his superb debut novel, Panhandle-bred Randy Kennedy so vividly captures the sprawling, flat, arid..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Joe Ely

"...crashed and burned, or rather seeped back into the Panhandle, Athos retreated back home to Lubbock after sustaining three..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Texas banter into a cosmopolitan sophistication shared with the Panhandle poet...."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Terry Allen’s Manifest Monographs

Lubbock don stages a vintage show for the ages

"...a 30-minute intermission, its hour-and-a-half map of both the Panhandle and high plains hearts proved as entrancing as Jo..."

Jan. 16, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Terry Allen Revisits His Definitive Albums

Lubbock musician on Juarez and Lubbock (On Everything)

"...me for six or seven years to re-license Juarez," explains Allen from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Day Trips: Caprock Canyons State Park, Quitaque

Where the High Plains drop into the rolling hills and the buffalo play all day

"...Park and Trailway outside of Quitaque in the Texas Panhandle seems to catch fire as the first light of..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

News Roundup: Storms, Season's Greetings, and Open Carry

Reminder: Open carry law takes effect Jan. 1

"...snow in Lubbock, as Winter Storm Goliath pummeled the Panhandle and the Southern Plains. An estimated 1,450 homes were..."

Dec. 29, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

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