AUSTIN, Texas — On June 20, 2023, The Drag Audio Production House will release its newest podcast, Lady Bird,’” which explores the life and legacy of one of the most iconic Texas figures. To celebrate the release of the podcast, The Drag...
I remember the night I got asked to host The Drag’s “Lady Bird” podcast. A few months before that night, I’d been hired to help The Drag’s managing director, Katey Outka, with some research. I came into the project without really knowing anything...
On Nov. 17, 1934, Lady Bird Taylor got ready for her wedding in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas. “I was getting dressed and talking a mile a minute, still uncertain whether it would be wisest to jump out the window or go on and get...
Lady Bird Johnson could never remember the date of her first date with the future president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. She guessed it was sometime at the very end of August or beginning September. So right around now would be the...
I drove to the Lady Bird Wildflower Center on a Saturday afternoon, playing Dolly Parton’s “Wildflowers” in my car. A little on the nose, I know, but it’s also a song about growing up and leaving home. In hindsight, maybe the day after a...
No one loves Lady Bird Johnson more than Laurie Grobe does. “She is, without a doubt, one of the most incredible people to have ever walked the Earth,” Grobe said. “Oh, my God, I feel like I can spend the rest of my life learning about Lady...
Fenced off by barbed wire on a sprawling plot of land at the end of a bumpy red dirt road sits a ranch-style house, off-white with dark red trim, about an hour’s drive from Austin, Texas. That’s my home. We built it when I was in second grade after...