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{spotlight–1}   Runaway Scrape’s Anguish Janice Woods Windle wrote about her family’s involvement in the Runaway Scrape in her historical novel True Women [The Runaway Scrape, April 2021]. One detail I’ll never forget is that a child who died on the way east was later dug up and reinterred near home, after the danger was…

{spotlight–1}   Family Roots Some of the more interesting pass-along plants [Putting Down Roots, February 2021] were introduced by Lorenzo de Zavala when he was a minister to France when Texas was a republic. Roses were a gift from France and planted by Adinade Zavala, his granddaughter, in their Lynchburg homestead, eventually shared and spread…

{spotlight–1}   Inspired Devotion Thank you for Michael Hurd’s thoughtful column on Black History Month [Time To Talk About That, February 2021], along with your tribute to war hero Doris Miller. Something that always inspires me about the United States is the degree of loyalty and devotion it inspires even in people it has treated…

{spotlight–1}   No Fan of the Span My wife drove across it with our teenage son in 1985 and could not drive back [The Scariest Bridge in Texas, January 2021]. It was so traumatizing for her that she has not been able to drive over any multilevel highway overpass, interstate or other even moderately high…

{spotlight–1}   Alabama’s Role While primary control of the International Space Station is in Houston, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, also plays a vital role in its operation [Out of This World, November 2020]. Flight controllers in Huntsville schedule the astronauts’ daily activities and provide technical assistance as the astronauts do experiments and…