Features from The Washington Post
AFTER 18TH CHILD'S GRADUATION, PROUD PARENTS CAN REST ON THEIR LAURELS
LORAINE, TEX. -- When Fabian Alvarez walked across the stage to receive his diploma Friday night, his parents felt the old, familiar pride and happiness they had felt before -- exactly 17 times before.
QUEEN OF THE WILD FRONTIER
SAN ANTONIO, MAY 21 -- Her Majesty, this city hopes, will remember the Alamo.
AGAIN, A HOME WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
PAWHUSKA, OKLA., OCT. 18 -- Timidly at first, as if uncertain of their course, 300 buffaloes circled the barbed-wire pen today. Then, prodded by all-terrain vehicles and pickup trucks, the woolly animals loped out of the gate and, gathering speed, ran almost silently into the tall grass, marking the first time the buffalo has roamed on its native prairie since the turn of the century.
THE SNIPER'S NEST JFK EXHIBIT OPENS IN A DALLAS LANDMARK
DALLAS -- For a generation they have come here, thousands of visitors each year. They stand at Dealey Plaza and point to the Texas School Book Depository building, but in disbelief find no real memorial to help them make peace with the events of November 22, 1963.
THE PREACHER'S FALL FROM GRACE TO HIS TEXAS FLOCK, HE WAS A STAR. THEN CAME AN AFFAIR AND CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
In a Bexar County courtroom, Walker Railey sits quietly, listening to testimony and taking occasional notes. The Methodist minister is trim and handsome in his dark suit, a fresh white handkerchief folded neatly in his breast pocket. Four hundred miles to the north in a Tyler, Tex., nursing home, Margaret "Peggy" Railey begins her seventh year in a persistent vegetative state. Her gnarled body still lives; her brain is dead. Once Peggy was an accomplished church musician, an active mother of two small children, and married to the revered minister of a large downtown church.
IN AUTUMN OF LIFE, 'THE ABILENE BOYS' RECLAIM A SUMMER ADVENTURE
SAN SABA, TEX. -- It seemed like a good idea to three 18-year-old boys just graduated from high school. Under parental pressure to find summer jobs, the lifelong friends opted instead to canoe the 600-mile Colorado River from west Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. That was in 1937. Now, they are at it again, septuagenarians shoving off the banks of the Colorado to relive their juvenile adventures.
TO SOME, RAZING GRAFFITI BRIDGE IS LIKE LOSING LAST PICTURE SHOW
Almost since the day it was built for the interurban line from Oklahoma City to Guthrie in 1936, the small railroad bridge at N.W. 59th and Western has been a target of youths wielding paint brushes.
HENRY LEE LUCAS
Henry Lee Lucas, who once confessed to as many as 600 murders before recanting and insisting, "I never killed anyone but my mother," is marking time until his execution, the last victim of his massive hoax.
IN DALLAS, HIGHWAY FOR THE FUTURE IS ALSO ROAD TO THE PAST
Freedman's history is being retrieved and studied in a massive relocation of graves that has grown from a three-month to a three-year project, and from 30 burial sites to more than 1,600.
HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAMPLES TRADITION
Elizabeth Watson remembers the first time she was eligible to take the sergeant's exam in the Houston Police Department in the early 1970s. When she told her supervisor that she was inclined not to take it, he seemed relieved.
"We couldn't have a female supervisor over all these men," he said.
"That will change some day," she told him.
"Not in your lifetime," he replied.
Now Watson has been appointed Houston's police chief.