Texas Book Festival: A Free Feast of Stories on the Capitol Grounds
Each fall, the grandest lawn in Texas fills with readers. The Texas Book Festival, founded in 1995 by Laura Bush, turns the Capitol and a...
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The Texas Capitol With Kids: Free Tours, Tall Tales and a Pink Granite Giant
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the field trip. The Texas State Capitol, sunset-red granite and taller than the nation’s Capitol in Washington, welcomes families...
A Family Day at the Texas Capitol: Picnics, Cannons and the Visitors Center
The Texas Capitol is a history lesson wrapped in a picnic. The 22-acre grounds — live oaks, monuments, the occasional cannon to inspect — invite...
The Texas State Capitol: Taller Than the Nation’s and Open to Everyone
Texans like to say everything is bigger in Texas — and their Capitol proves it. Completed in 1888 from sunset-red granite quarried in the Hill...
