There is no sadder story than Old Yeller. That’s true of both the 1956 novel, written by Fred Gipson—a Hill Country native who was born in 1908 on a farm in an unincorporated part of the area about a ...

I’m going to talk about something scary today. Not an alien life form but a very real live virus called rabies. Rabies didn’t die out with Old Yeller — it is still very much with us, and definitely ...

Dear reader, it is World Rabies Day on Friday and I thought it would be a great time to learn more about this disease. My memory of rabies comes from the book Old Yeller, an incredible story of a ...

You remember the scene: Toward the end of "Old Yeller," young Travis looks through the wooden slats of a corn crib at Yeller, who's now snarling and growling in the pen, showing the first signs of ...

Poor Old Yeller got a bad rap. A new report from the CDC says bats and other wild animals are the leading cause for rabies in the United States, according to Science News. The findings claim that 70% ...

Spoiler alert: In case you haven’t seen the movie yet, Old Yeller dies in the end. And the whole world cried. And they still do, as the film continues to captivate new generations of audiences since ...

The first book that ever made me cry told the story of an egg-sucking, ringwormy male with one ear chewed off. Did I mention he was yellow? And I was six? Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller introduces Death to ...

When Amanda S. Monger passed through Staunton on her way to Richmond on Jan. 1, 1912, she was eagerly greeted at the Chesapeake and Ohio train station by a reporter for the Staunton Dispatch and News.

Nothing brings two people together quite like rabies. Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy — he’s a journalist, she’s a vet — teamed up to write “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus ...