A short walk away is the University of Texas and its nearly 50,000 students. Elsewhere on campus, there's the Johnson library and museum. Displays tell the former president's life story, from his hardscrabble upbringing in the Hill Country to the dark days of the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam War. Lady Bird Johnson, who still calls Austin home, is the prime mover behind the National Wildflower Research Center, created to stimulate research and education about preservation and use of wildflowers. And then, there's the music.
Listeners can find rock, blues, jazz, rap, tejano, country and western.
We like to think that we have had more influence on music than most states have.