If you had told me six months ago that I was about to fall in love with a then-unknown-to-me Texas-Mexico border town, I’d have laughed at you–and asked for my tarot-card reading money …

After U-turns on the edges of grapefruit groves, repeated pullovers to study our Rio Grande Valley street guide, and a precarious three-point turn on the narrow levee road where a border patrol truck blocks our path, we are really lost. Like so many wanderers before us, we are searching for La Lomita Mission, which a local history buff named Frank told me about at an Edinburg bar the night before. “Just travel the Old Military Highway that goes along the Rio Grande,” Frank said. What Frank…

Production Date: 1937 Source Type: Postcard Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Don Bartels, Curt Teich (#6, #7A-H2362) Postmark: None Collection: Steven R. Shook Tenney and Hilbert Published Market Price in 2009: $4-$8 Source: Tenney, Fred, and Kevin Hilbert. 2009. Large Letter Postcards: The Definitive Guide 1930s to 1950s. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 176 p. Copyright 2010. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by…

Down in the most southern tip of Texas, near where the Rio Grande exits out into the Gulf of Mexico, there exists a land where birds of all manner flock. The locals call the area a valley, but in truth, the land surrounding the river is a floodplain, containing many oxbow lakes or resacas formed…

Once you see the palm trees, you know you're in the 956

A beautiful sunset in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas.

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