Family and Children's Activities

In general, Texas is not known as a ‘high-tech’ state. However, during the Space Race of the 1960s, Houston secured its place in the technology field with the role played by Space Center Houston.

Like many Californians, I skipped past Hearst Castle for years. I'd seen Orson Welles's 1941 classic, Citizen Kane, and figured I knew all I needed to about Citizen Hearst and his San Simeon monument to self-indulgence. Fifty-six bedrooms, 61 baths, 41 fireplaces—the scale alone is embarrassing. It apparently took a village to house this man, who had the wealth of a Medici and the ego of Nero.