Arbor Day looks with promise toward a future filled with trees, and celebrates all the ways trees enrich our lives and stabilize the environment. In Texas, Arbor Day first was celebrated in Temple on Feb.
Encompassing seven major regions, Texas has 700,000-plus miles of highway and spans 956 miles at its widest part. Whether crossing Texas west to east from New Mexico to Louisiana or north to south from Oklahoma to Mexico, count on 14 to 16 hours behind the wheel. “There is no simple recipe that can capture all of Texas,” states Travel Texas of its current “Let's Texas” advertising campaign. “No two trips are alike nor should they be. Texas offers the ability to personalize a trip to exactly a traveler's unique preferences.”
In this month s Yesteryear: Fifty years ago, the city was fighting blue movies at a drive-in theater, and 25 years ago, crews were painting the Wright Opera House its characteristic