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2001 Stories by Brad Tyer

• High-Water Mark

  published September 13, 2001

  The red dirt road that dead-ends into the office of Tom Goynes's Pecan Park Retreat near Martindale was wet two weeks ago, soaking up the... More >>

• Their First 100 Years

  published August 30, 2001

  Not a lot of people know about Camp Logan. It was first a national guard camp and then an emergency training center for soldiers during the First... More >>

• Publishing Gulf?

  published August 16, 2001

  November 2000 must have seemed, to Dave Hamrick, like an awfully good time to be getting into the publishing business in Texas. Hamrick, a... More >>

• Beating the Bush

  published July 12, 2001

  Tony Adams espouses -- though he doesn't call it this -- the paper-clip theory: A bend to the right requires a compensating overbend to the left,... More >>

• Smear Campaign?

  published June 14, 2001

  The news hit Galveston late last October like a rogue wave, and within a day it had surged up Interstate 45 to saturate the local television news... More >>

• The Art of Getting Broken

  published May 17, 2001

  She was an American girl... She says it's all about making the connection, and that's easy enough to imagine, even if this weren't a... More >>

• Confidence Man

  published May 10, 2001

  A public figure who speaks his honest mind is certain to sooner or later find himself occupying one of two narrow niches in the human sociosystem:... More >>

• We -Store-It, U-Lose-It?

  published April 26, 2001

  Kendra Cuyler has lived the better part of the past 15 years immersed in the two professional subcultures that most people, given even half a... More >>

• The Aransan Menace

  published April 12, 2001

  Houston city officials couldn't bear to build a multimillion-dollar convention center hotel on Dallas Street. So they're renaming part of the... More >>

• The Hitch

  published March 29, 2001

  June may be the traditional month for weddings. But that's a luxury that can't wait for some Houstonians: illegal immigrants eager to take... More >>

• Bringing Down the House

  published March 22, 2001

  The omens are plentiful: in the hands of a child, in the dearth of witnesses, in a solitary white balloon floating past in the hot blue sky. They... More >>

• In His Own Write

  published March 22, 2001

  Where do you start with Jesse Dayton? Do you go all the way back to a Beaumont childhood spent begging licks from itinerant blues players and... More >>

• Got Legs

  published March 22, 2001

  The story's a modern-rock fable, as pedestrian by now as the playlist at the Buzz: Regionally promising band self-releases good stuff, gets... More >>

• The Badge Means You Owe

  published March 8, 2001

  She never saw the dunning notice, but that was her name up at the top, beneath the letterhead and badge-shaped logo of the Texas State Fraternal... More >>

• Tresspassers Will Be Prosecuted

  published March 1, 2001

  The average number of sons of bitches, a Spanish friend of mine used to say in Catholic acceptance of human imperfection, is just about the... More >>

• The Mark

  published February 1, 2001

  Saturday, January 20 -- I am strolling aimlessly through the Grand Ballroom of the Radisson Astrodome hotel. The occasion is the 25th (and final)... More >>

• When Life Gives You Lemons...

  published January 25, 2001

  The Web sites spring up, all over the state, like mushrooms after a hard rain. Clear Lake's John Cobarruvias maintains one ( More >>

• RV Xmas

  published January 4, 2001

  Friday, December 22 -- From inside, framed in the horizontal sliver of my front window, I can see America. Left to right, the horizon reads: Taco... More >>