The Bittersweet Legacy of Hereford’s POW Camp
_{Texas Highways}
Italians imprisoned near this Panhandle farming town befriended local families when the prisoners’ labor was needed to bring in the harvest.

How Fauci Came to Receive the ‘Ultimate Honor’: His Own Bobblehead Doll
_{The Washington Post Magazine}
I talked with the creators of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee about the popularity of political bobbleheads and with Dr. Fauci about how it feels to be immortalized in polyresin.

Come for the Dr Pepper Float, Stay for the Civil Rights History
_{Texas Monthly}
The Dr Pepper Museum in Waco created an exhibit about the lunch counter sit-ins that helped desegregate local public accommodations.

The Lost Underwater Towns of Texas
^{Texas Highways}
Bluffton: Texas’ Lost Civilization Rises from Lake Buchanan
^{Texas Observer}
Texas has more than 200 large human-made lakes, and some of them submerged small communities that had to be relocated or ended up forgotten. I’m fascinated and a bit creeped out thinking about what’s beneath the surface.

Corsicana’s ‘Killer Elephant’
_{Texas Observer}
The tragedy of Black Diamond, a circus elephant held in captivity for years and ultimately executed after he killed a woman during a parade. He wasn’t the only one to meet such an end.