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The echoes of the Texas Revolution still reverberate through these cities.

The county fair is a showcase, and sometimes showdown, for home cooks, who nervously pit their loftiest meringue pies and tastiest jams and jellies against their neighbors’ year after year. To earn one of the coveted blue ribbons, you need not only a sure-fire recipe and great technique but also a knack for eye-catching presentation….

Many ranchers, farmers, oilmen, barrel racers and cutting-horse champions—not to mention lawyers, surgeons, car dealers and football coaches—consider boots by M.L. Leddy’s to be the best boots in Texas.

Nothing speaks of home like a quilt, especially one with a family history. There’s something about the patching and stitching and padding that gives one comfort and joy. A book, Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy, to be issued in October by Texas Tech University Press, has some wonderful stories about the roles…

When old acquaintances ask what I’ve been “doing” since leaving an exciting newspaper career for home-based work and motherhood, I sometimes flash a snapshot of Lauren, Molly and Maclain. “I’ve been doing my part,” I tell them, “to increase the world’s supply of redheads.” Little did I know how important my life’s work would be….