Melany is the only friend where I have scared the sh*t out of her with my screams of seeing a ringtail cat! Seriously, the first time it happened she nearly drove off the road coming out of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. We are driving along in peace when all of a sudden on the dark…
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Came home yesterday and saw my purple bearded iris had bloomed. My heart smiled. This set of irises came from a patch in Foard County, Texas. Purple irises were planted long ago by the wives of early ranchers and farmers, especially those of Dutch or German descendant living here in Texas. My own great great,…
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As I turned a yellowed newspaper page, immediately the words “Brutal Murders” caught my eye and were emblazoned across a top headline of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche-Journal on October 27, 1943. It was like I froze in time. Then the photo below the headline of two little girls grabbed my attention immediately and became engrained…
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Lubbock’s Hidden Economic Gem By: Christena Stephens There are many hidden gems in Lubbock’s unique history; one of these is how people developed businesses. This is the story of one. Urban growth and development came late to the South Plains because this region of Texas was the last settled. When Lubbock became organized in 1909,…
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Forgotten Winds 