by Julia Hayden
It takes a gift to find yourself on a soggy-wet mountainside on a Sunday afternoon in December in the rain, slipping and sliding in the mud with a tree saw in one hand, and leading a sniffling and sopping-wet toddler with the …
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Shopping locally fuels the economy and is the best return on investment in local businesses. For every dollar you spend in a local business, estimates are that 3-5 times as much money will be reinvested in …
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So, off to Wurstfest in New Braunfels last weekend: an all out community celebration of suds and sausage-onna-stick, along with culinary explorations of deep-fried-anything . . . like Oreo cookies. (Seriously. I tasted one . . . not bad, really, but just because something can be done - doesn't mean that it ought to …
by Julia Hayden
It's axiomatic that if you actually live in a place that is storied, or famous, or a destination for out-of-town visitors, you can actually get kind of snobbish about those places that draw the tourists. Even stranger - you might actually spend years living in …
Wurstfest October 29th thru November 7, 2010
New Braunfels, Texas
Oh gosh - since Halloween was just this last weekend, then it means that New Braunfels' annual celebration of sausage and meat-onna-stick in every form imaginable and sudsy, tasty adult beverages must be in full swing. Landa Park, all this …
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So, who would have thought it - we drove to Abilene last weekend for the West Texas Book and Music Festival, and found - when the books were packed up and the music had ended, there was still a lot going on in Abilene. There was the …
For a household wherein the last time we packed out from an overseas assignment and the movers had a pool going on how many cartons of books they would finish up with - the count eventually topped out at 65 - we have an unseemly greed …
by Celia Hayes
... At the Animal Defense League; every Wednesday until the end of this month, the adoption fees for dogs over the age of puppy are reduced ... which is a very generous concession indeed, considering that the dogs available have been spayed …
Abilene, Texas September 20 - 25, 2010
By Julia Hayden (In person at festival Sept 25.)
The West Texas Book and Music Festival is coming up in September, an excellent excuse to party hearty, eat hearty and check out the local literary scene in beautiful …
The town of Boerne is one of those established in the mid-19th century by German settlers on what was then the edge of the frontier, which began roughly about where the Hill Country begins. Boerne was, in it …