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Meet Your Texas Makers

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Arts, Crafts, and Icons in the Lone Star State

From birdhouses to banjos, Texas-made products reflect the ingenuity, heart, and skill of our state’s great craftspeople. See what makes these makers tick.

 
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Fun With Food and Texas Treats

Whether your tastes skew savory, sweet, spicy, or subtle, you’ll find flavorful foods across Texas. Meet eight of the state’s most tempting purveyors of the palate.

 
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Texas Events: Music, Arts, and Infinite Possibilities

Check out a sampling of the festivals and fairs that bring together the makers who shape the cultural landscape of the Lone Star State.

 
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...And Then There Were Two

Comfortable, cultural, and charming: Destinations Nos. 3 and 2 in our countdown of the Readers’ Choice Texas Top 40 are turning heads afresh.

 
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Where in Texas
Are You? Contest

Tell us the name of the museum where the 1877 tall ship Elissa is on display, and you could win a Beaumont getaway! Enter by midnight on November 4th!

 

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Also this month: Chihuahuan Desert diversity, the Historic Brownsville Museum, the drawings of Yan Lee, camping with family, Rohan Meadery in La Grange, Julio’s Chips, Swiss Pastries in Fort Worth, Martindale, Austin’s Broken Spoke turns 50, the fun in talking to strangers, and a San Antonio day trip.

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On the Road with Texas Highways: A Tribute to True Texas includes 294 of former Photo Editor J. Griffis Smith’s best color photos from his 30 years of covering the Lone Star State for Texas Highways magazine.

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