Best Golf in New Mexico
Nestled in between Nevada and Texas, New Mexico could be considered the jewel of the American Southwest. With some of the most gorgeous natural vistas, fascinating rock formations, and rich native heritage sites it’s no wonder tourists flock there every year. If you...
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Texas: A Golfer’s Paradise
The great state of Texas has lots of pretty great places to visit some offer their visitors a chance to walk in the footsteps of the past, others provide top notch shopping and dining experiences, and still others allow patrons to kick back and challenge themselves on...
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Remembering the Alamo: San Antonio, TX History
The Alamo was originally built in 1744 by Spanish missionaries as the Mission San Antonio de Valero for St. Anthony of Padua. The mission was intended to be a center for the conversion and education of Native Americans. The building was used as a mission for around...
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Johnson Space Center
Texas is home to many great institutions, perhaps none greater than the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. From the massive 1,620-acre complex located in the Clear Lake area of Houston, NASA conducts a large amount of its human spaceflight training, research, and flight...
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Prehistoric Texas
As they say, “everything is bigger in Texas,”; that goes for the brims on a cowboy’s hat, the wide open spaces, and a fossil record that goes way back… all the way back to the Cambrian period, roughly 541 to 485.4 million years. Despite its rich history, formal study...
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The Menger Hotel
Opened in 1859 in San Antonio’s Alamo Plaza, right down the street from the famed mission where Davey Crockett fell at the hands of Mexican troops just 23 years prior. The Menger hotel gets its name from its founders William and Mary Menger. William Menger was a...
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Imhotep Signed What?
If you ever saw the original 1932 film The Mummy starring Boris Karloff you may notice that the titular horror icon had a name, as did his counterpart in the 1999 remake starring Brendan Fraser and Arnold Vosloo, that name is Imhotep. But the real person behind the...
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Sweetwater, TX’s WASP Museaum
The Forgotten Women Flyers of World War II Of the many stories that have gone forgotten among the many annals of World War II, one that has been especially overlooked is that of the role that women played in the war effort. By 1942 the allied armed forces were hurting...
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Get To Know Skyline Civil Group’s CEO, Stephen Marcum
What made you start Skyline Civil Group? I have always dreamed about owning my own business and so far I am enjoying the flexibility. Best of all I get to structure my civil engineering firm to fit my ethics and values. Where did you study Civil Engineering and what...
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Constructing the Golden Gate
A bright orange symbol of human ingenuity set against the mist of San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable landmarks in America and possibly the world, just ask Hollywood, as it’s iconic visage has made it the target of everything from...
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