Water Ski Capital of Texas (Lake McQueeney nickname)
Lake McQueeney (near the town of Seguin) is known as the "Water Ski Capital of Texas." The lake hosts water skiing, jet skiing, and wakeboarding. The "Ski Bees" ski club on Lake…
Lake McQueeney (near the town of Seguin) is known as the "Water Ski Capital of Texas." The lake hosts water skiing, jet skiing, and wakeboarding. The "Ski Bees" ski club on Lake…
Nacogdoches is a small town; people who were born there take pride in their identity. "BIN" stands for "Born In Nacogdoches," cited in print from at least 1999. The city of…
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The city of McKinney added the "Unique by Nature" slogan and logo in 2005. McKinney is on the northeastern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and has been one of the fastest-growing…
East Texas is home to the Piney Woods. For some people, the wooded area is the "pine curtain" -- another "-curtain" expression borrowed from Winston Churchill's famous…
The city of Nacogdoches is an old Texas city (it's advertised as "the oldest town in Texas") with a funny name. In 1912, a vaudeville-touring Groucho Marx declared that
The city of Nacogdoches claims to be the "oldest town in Texas," but it's not especially big (compared to Dallas or Houston). Some Texans consider Nacogdoches to be a…
The Veloway is a 3.1-mile paved trail in southwest Austin for bicycle and rollerblade traffic only. According to the 1998 Austin Chronicle (below), a particularly steep hill in the Veloway has been…