Last week I had the opportunity to visit with art and history students at Burbank High School, my alma mater, to discuss San Antonio labor leader Emma Tenayuca and the pecan shellers’ strike. When ...

In today’s modern world, it is often difficult to believe the strides our society and economy have made in regard to worker’s rights, and although many of those hard-earned rights are under attack ...

After years of workshopping and countless smashed pecan meats, Bland Quantz perfected a pecan-cracking machine. This is a modern version. The original prototype of the Quantz cracking machine is in ...

During last year's pecan harvest, John Grundmann was sacking candy to keep busy. Drought decimated the crop, and there just weren't any nuts to crack and shell at his business, the state's only ...