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ON THE COVER

Photo by Rob Greebon

Frio River in Garner State Park

FINDING FALL

MOTFARGT THAAVEZE XINEAL SE

DEPARTMENTS

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Merge

8

Sightseer

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My Hometown

Pattie Pederson fosters

a rebirth of Navasota’s

cultural bounty

12

Open Road

Reading between the

lines about J. Frank Dobie,

the father of Texas literature

19

Drive/Family

A Central Texan retraces

her elementary school field

trips—and LBJ’s legacy

25

Drive/Detour

A road to nowhere?

Wrong. The desert allure

of FM 170 in West Texas.

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Drive/Texas Ticket

Running a marathon

in Marathon

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Getaway

This fall, flock with

the butterflies to the

Rio Grande Valley

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Plates

Texas wine at

Fredericksburg’s

Cabernet Grill;

unexpected sports

stadium eats; Scholz

Garten in Austin

80

Te x a na

Discoveries old and new

at Twistflower Ranch in

West Texas

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Events

The Come and Take It

Celebration in Gonzales

93

The Daytripper

Brownsville’s Tex-Mex

spirit, from history to

food and nature

95

Speaking of Texas

Musician and poet Red

Steagall on the enduring

appeal of the West

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Vintage

A historical homecoming

at Fort Worth’s I.M.

Te r re l l Hig h S ch o o l

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