Prairies and Lakes: The Long, Unwinding Road

Cedar Creek Furniture in Kemp offers hand-crafted chairs, loungers, windmills, and even a lighthouse.

By Mary G. Ramos

Whether it’s a Biergarten experience in Muenster or solitude at McKinney Roughs Nature Park, plenty of diverse pastimes await you.

Like a lanky Texan, the Prairies and Lakes region stretches from the Red River down to the Guadalupe. Delightful surprises are sprinkled along its backroads like wildflowers in springtime. My husband, Charles, and I found everything from archeology to architecture, baseball gloves to blacksmithing, diamonds to Duesenbergs. The finds are way too numerous to mention them all, but here are some of my favorites, listed more or less from north to south.

See the full article in the September 2007 issue.

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