Travel in the Lone Star State
Remember when you were a kid traveling with your parents, and the one thing you wanted was a big hotel swimming pool at night? Your parents also looked forward to the pool amusing their children. Prepare for updated nostalgia because the Texican Court Hotel in Irving, Texas, is a throwback to a 1950s motor lodge […]
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Nine things to know about The Mustangs of Las Colinas Nothing says freedom like wild horses joyfully galloping through a stream of cool water surrounded by endless pastures. The Mustangs at Los Colinas sculpture freezes that playful moment in time as nine bronze mustangs gallop endlessly through a stream in Williams Square Plaza. They run
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In the Dallas Times Herald November 21, 1963, edition, Lee Harvey Oswald saw President John Kennedy’s (JFK) motorcade route. At that moment, Oswald painted a target on Kennedy’s back. Follow JFK and his assassin from November 21 to 25 on the JFK assassination tour. Oswald worked at the Texas Schoolbook Depository at Sixth and Elm
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A cynical Ruth Hyde Paine might say, “No good deed goes unpunished.” The actual Paine said she would welcome Marina Oswald into her home again. “Would I open my home again to a woman I like, … who needed friendship and a place to live? Yes. However, “if I had not invited Marina to stay
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Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird made their home at LBJ Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. While he was President, the house was known as the Texas White House. “We are living in Lyndon Johnson’s America. This country is more the country of Lyndon Johnson than any other president.” Joseph A. Califano Jr.,
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Imagine miles and miles of Texas bluebonnets. As far as you can see, fragrant wildflowers are carpeting the ground with a crazy quilt of bright colors. You must be in Texas Hill Country in the early spring. In the Hill Country, the wildflowers usually peak in early April. The scent is something that arrives straight
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