Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 9:08am
By April Garner, THC Heritage Tourism Program Coordinator
The Texas Historical Commission’s (THC) popular heritage travel guide African Americans in Texas: A Lasting Legacy will become the agency’s first mobile app tour. Expected to launch in December, the mobile app will feature new content and human-interest stories that bring the history of places to life through audio, slideshows,...
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:36am
By Eliot Stone, THC Heritage Tourism Specialist
The THC’s Heritage Tourism Program successfully launched its first heritage tourism workshops in Laredo and Rio Grande City in late August. The workshops brought together cultural leaders, business owners, city officials, and other interested residents of Laredo and Rio Grande City to identify and develop untapped heritage tourism...
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 8:18am
By Rob Hodges, THC Social Media Coordinator
“If you won a contest offering a free trip to the Texas heritage region of your choice, where would you go? Would you visit a familiar locale to enjoy your favorite sites? Or would you tour an undiscovered area to learn something new?”
So begins the travel article in the Summer 2014 issue of The Medallion, “Tropical Trail Tour: THC...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 11:49am
By Susan Shore, Texas Heritage Trails Program Specialist
There’s something special about the land that is the Southern High Plains of Texas. When I moved to Lubbock from Chicago in 1996, the “horizontal yellow,” as author Dan Flores called it, pulled me in as no city landscape ever could. The land was everything to the people who roamed it and to those who eventually settled it...
Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 1:48am
By Susan Shore, Texas Heritage Trails Program Specialist
In rural Motley County, the story of its historic jail is woven into narratives of the county and the region—including the area’s connection to Quanah Parker and the Comanche Nation, the development of historic and modern-day ranch operations, community development and the establishment of the rule of law, and the lingering tales...
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