Day Trips

History Ahead: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers is part travel guide and part history book

"...History Ahead: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers by Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman is..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Rename Austin? Not Likely.

City name not going anywhere anytime soon

"...the Austin History Center and spent months reviewing other markers around town...."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Nature, history, and more to explore in 2023

"...the famous mother and son sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission. The show will be on display from Jan...."

Jan. 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

It’s time for chili cook-offs, festivals, and all sorts of November fun

"...Texas history that should be memorialized on a state historical marker? Through Nov. 15, the Texas Historical Commission is..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Booksellers

Tale of New York antiquarian booksellers is the Reader's Digest version

"...when it comes to inscriptions. These are books as historical markers, as a chain to a person or an..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Do Not Tear Down Landmarks

"...-- so chances are you just walked past this historical landmark. And yet there it sits, like it has..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

"...homes, the campus is worth a driving tour. Special historical exhibits will be up around campus during the year;..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...The Texas Historical Commission has produced a free brochure, "The Chisholm Trail,..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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"...embraced it as our own. There should be a historical marker at 29th and Guadalupe, where the phenomenon began..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Guide to Confederate Monuments in Austin

Where to find them, for as long as they're still standing

"...News writer Michael King addresses historical illiteracy and the problem with celebrating the Confederacy in..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature

Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...is home to one of the area's coolest State Historical Markers (certainly my favorite). It reads as follows:..."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Trial and Error

Questions raised about whether cards were stacked against Davidians in their civil suit against the federal government.

"...he said.Why the Davidians Lost While the philosophical and historical aspects of Waco are important, it's worth discussing why..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Public Notice

Home & Heart

"...Church at 1510 N. Congress, home to the Texas Historical Commission, was built with bricks and stones from the..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

Says She Ain't Got No Extra Hush Puppies to Sell

Doing the Goodie Mob Soul Food crawl

"...it was worth a drive-by. The street bore no historical markers reading, “This house was referenced on a groundbreaking..."

July 8, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Depths of 'Desire'

Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing

"...so they took on the appearance and character of historical markers. The plaques, Carlozzi writes in the exhibition catalog,..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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The Brazos Indian Reservation began as an effort to provide native Texans with a homeland, yet ended in tragedy

"...of the Brazos Reservation's short existence are posted on historical markers in Young County. The Old Post Office Museum..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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"...the back roads that you will not find in historical markers...."

Sept. 5, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Local Anthologies Take Root Growing Up

"..."The historical markers we look at in poetry are those times..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature by Phil West

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...the west end is accompanied by a nearby state historical marker, as well as a wooden "No Pets" sign,..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Herzog on Chatwin becomes Herzog exposed

"...There is nothing so prosaic as historical facts about Chatwin here, or how he'd already burned..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Over Their Dead Bodies

The Texas Rangers want to expand – the dead will just have to move

"...forgotten? The state Antiqui­ties Law, which regulates development within historical sites, doesn't even specifically mention cemeteries, leaving officials at..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Williamson County Residents Organize to Remove Confederate Monument

Meanwhile the Texas Legislature tries to block monument removals

"...effort, requesting County Commissioners add a plaque providing better historical context, was rejected 4-1 – even though the plaque..."

May 7, 2019 News Post by Michael King

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The San Jacinto Monument has reopened its observation deck to the public, offering a beautiful view of the Houston skyline and the battlefield where Texas won its independence

"...years later, veterans of the battle returned to place markers for sites of important events during the battle. By..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Will Oakwood Remains Find Their Families?

Researchers look for relatives of unidentified bodies

"...pathogens that describe diet and disease, and even epigenetic markers that indicate stress and trauma experienced during an individual's..."

Sept. 22, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Death Waits for No Plan

Austin works on making its cemeteries more accessible to the public

"...but the lots and everything on them, from grave markers to flower vases, belong to the family of the..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Hollywood Fluff, Please – We're Polish

Cinema tackles the tumult of history at the Austin Polish Film Festival

"...delightful sidebar to the APFF. Aside from certain red-letter markers, the fine points of Poland's tortured past and fluctuating..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...The Texas Historical Commission unveiled a historical marker last week at East..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature

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"...to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT). Markers placed by the DRT between the 567-foot San Jacinto..."

March 6, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Highs and lows from Austin’s stages in their first real post-pandemic year

"...Actors used different speeds, handshapes, body movements, and linguistic markers to differentiate and add depth and dimension to characters...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Deaf Austin Theatre's The Laramie Project

Enhanced American Sign Language adds depth, dimension to "testimony's ambitious sister"

"...theatrical narratives and cast of characters are built from historical and archival materials – have been called "testimony's ambitious..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

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