Natalie Moore

Aug 22, 2023 | texashighways.com | Ruvani De Silva |Natalie Moore

More than 100 years after moonshine surged in popularity during Prohibition, distilleries across the state are reviving the once illegal spirit. Congress established the 18th Amendment in 1919, which made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal—but not its consumption. Bootleggers had to improvise to make contraband whiskey, using anything that fermented, including corn, rye, wheat, barley, vegetables, fruits, or even sugar.

Aug 22, 2023 | texashighways.com | Natalie Moore

The West Texas ghost town of Terlingua beckons visitors with its expansive desert landscape, easy access to Big Bend National Park, and the renegade spirit of its tightknit community. For photographer Jessica Lutz, who has called the area home for 10 years and took the photos for “Viva Terlingua”, it was just what she needed after a decade on the East Coast. “One of the reasons I left New York was because I couldn’t see the horizon and stars. Terlingua was the perfect antidote,” she says.

Aug 22, 2023 | texashighways.com | Natalie Moore

The West Texas ghost town of Terlingua beckons visitors with its expansive desert landscape, easy access to Big Bend National Park, and the renegade spirit of its tightknit community. For photographer Jessica Lutz, who has called the area home for 10 years and took the photos for “Viva Terlingua”, it was just what she needed after a decade on the East Coast. “One of the reasons I left New York was because I couldn’t see the horizon and stars. Terlingua was the perfect antidote,” she says.

Aug 22, 2023 | texashighways.com | Michael Corcoran |Natalie Moore

Dave Dalton Thomas was a 23-year-old copy editor for the San Angelo Standard-Times when he happened upon a Texas entertainment scoop that would change his life. Thomas trekked to Luckenbach, his spiritual recharge spot, on a day off in 1995. While at the storied dance hall, he ran into promoters for Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic, a landmark event of longhaired country music fans that had thrived in the ’70s but nearly went defunct in the early ’90s.

Aug 22, 2023 | texashighways.com | Michael Corcoran |Natalie Moore

Dave Dalton Thomas was a 23-year-old copy editor for the San Angelo Standard-Times when he happened upon a Texas entertainment scoop that would change his life. Thomas trekked to Luckenbach, his spiritual recharge spot, on a day off in 1995. While at the storied dance hall, he ran into promoters for Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic, a landmark event of longhaired country music fans that had thrived in the ’70s but nearly went defunct in the early ’90s.