Diane Adams
Diane Adams is a local journalist interested county history. Please send tips and ideas for stories to Diane through our contact page here.
DIANE ADAMS: How a kid drove pigs to Fort Worth
Here’s a little snapshot into the life of an 11-year-old in Brownwood back in 1877 that can make you think.…
DIANE ADAMS: Bluebonnets on Bangs Hill
How can we doubt the idea of resurrection and eternal life when we’re surrounded by a message about it? Wildflowers…
DIANE ADAMS: Lost stories at Camp Colorado
I guess it’s coming up on 30 years ago now on a time when my husband and I came out…
DIANE ADAMS: Pausing at Intermission
I spent some time at Intermission Bookshop the other day. Owner Kim Bruton was there, and she shared some of…
DIANE ADAMS: Mrs. Camp visited Fort Worth
On Thursday, Oct 5, of 1916, the new Charlie Chaplin film was playing in town. The county fair was in…
DIANE ADAMS: Winter sunsets
Winter sunsets have their own mood. I was sitting with my dog on the hill out back, watching the sun…
DIANE ADAMS: Mysterious Cairns of West Central Texas
Along the creeks and rivers and on the high ridges of West Central Texas, within an approximate circle of 14…
DIANE ADAMS: Thunder Snow
I woke up to thunder and sleet this morning. The wind was howling, the darkness lit by glitterings off ice…
DIANE ADAMS: Who was Jim Ned?
The Jim Ned Creek, which begins in Taylor County, runs through Coleman and eventually into Brown where it’s dammed to…
DIANE ADAMS: The old iron bridge
My husband and I are addicted to back road drives. We find the neatest things. The other day we ended…
DIANE ADAMS: Mystery of a lost Spanish stirrup
Sometime in 1920, “north of San Saba, near the banks of the Colorado River” (somewhere slightly Southeast of Indian Creek,…
DIANE ADAMS: Lost treasure – Free history day trip
A little over an hour’s drive from Brownwood can take you to the ruins of the Presidio San Saba along…
DIANE ADAMS: Cold weather castles
Slow moving streams and the edges of the tanks were still frozen, almost a week after the big front. I…
DIANE ADAMS: Train heists and jail breaks
Back when robbing trains was a real thing, not just a Bugs Bunny trope, an attempted train heist took place…
DIANE ADAMS: Update on Riverside Park
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column on my totally amateurist thoughts about a tree in Riverside Park that…