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February 2019
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TCP Kitchen
Cozy Casseroles
In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we look back at a recipe from our archives—as we will do every month this year. This month we feature Lone Star Casserole from April 1965.
February 2019 Photo Contest
Focus on Texas: Two of a Kind
These are not double exposures, just special moments that are twice as captivating
75th Anniversary
75th Anniversary Timeline: Sports
Highlighting events and milestones in history that coincide with Texas Co-op Power’s 75 years of publication
Currents
History Lessons
Some of the topics we looked into while you were reading last month’s issue
Texas History
The Bugs That Make You See Red
Aztecs and Europeans treasured the radiant hue produced by cochineals living on prickly pear cactuses
Texas USA
Convictions and Concrete
Ray’s Ornamental Gardens, a roadside attraction in Stephenville, presented philosophy and art
Observations
King of Cakes
The colorful Carnival confection with US roots in New Orleans abounds in the Lone Star State
Hit the Road
A Close-Up With Nature
Corpus Christi botanical gardens put visitors eye to eye with flora and fauna
Around Texas
Historians will re-enact in Goliad an encampment depicting the 1812 siege of Presidio La Bahia—during which Mexico took the fort from the Spanish—as part of Under the Green Flag, February 23–24.
Find more events all across the state on our Events page.
Photo: Library of Congress
