The first time Pamela Seager visited the run-down Rancho los Alamitos, she noticed its potential. “There was an integrity,” she says. “It wasn’t...
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Jana Bommersbach
Healing Hot Springs
The first time Lee and David Manuel laid eyes on Hot Lake Springs, they thought the three-story brick building could star in a horror movie: it had...
The Hand Saw Man
Gary Barker could tell you how old log cabins fall apart. He had spent a decade as a YMCA camp caretaker in Minnesota, using best guesses, luck and...
Singing for His Supper
Cy Scarborough’s heart never was in the “Natural State,” even though he was born and raised in Arkansas 85 years ago. “As a kid, I dreamed of going...
If Walls Could Talk
The old saying “if walls could talk” has a breathtaking implication when those walls are in the Magoffin Home in El Paso, Texas. This 1875 adobe...
Keepers of the Seed
A partnership allows the first Cornhuskers to save the ancient Eagle Corn seed. The last 50 kernels of Eagle Corn were kept in a mayonnaise...
Silver City’s Treasure
Susan Berry grew up in Silver City, New Mexico, a place she remembers as “not a lot happening, but loaded with potential.” She spent 36 years of her...
Supersized in San Antonio
Texans don’t call San Antonio’s Witte Museum the “people’s museum” to be folksy. Unlike many museums that come into being with a nice endowment from...
Hoop Dance Dynasty
Thanks to the pull of love, one of today’s most acclaimed hoop dancing families in the nation helped to revive the native dance that had all but...
Keeping New Mexico’s Pueblo Culture Alive
The Phillips family always loved their annual summer trip to Santa Fe from their California home in the 1950s and ’60s. In the Hopi land of northern...
Deadwood Strikes Gold with Mining Relic
Names can be deceiving. Take “Deadwood.” At first blush, it sounds dark and dreary and lifeless. But say “Historic Landmark, Deadwood, South...
Galveston’s Guardian Angel
Considering all the guardian angels who have looked over the Galveston Railroad Museum for more than a quarter century, where were they in the early...