During a routine vacation with his special needs daughter, Morgan, philanthropist Gordon Hartman realized that many of the playgrounds he visited were not adequate enough for a child as unique and special as Morgan. What soon manifested was Morgan’s Wonderland, located in Northeast San Antonio near the …
View MoreThis years festival and Italian dinner is over, but if you missed it, the Ladies Auxillary holds quarterly Italian dinners ...
So, who would have guessed that there is a thriving little Italian community tucked away in San Antonio ... well …
by Celia Hayes
Having reason last Saturday to go up to Lockhart, to participate in an evening fund-raising event to support the Eugene Clark Library, my daughter and I thought; let's drive up in the early afternoon and take a look at …
The United States Navy's Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue Angels, Is Coming to San Antonio on October 29th and 30th at the Randolph Air Force Base. Come out and see the oldest formal flying aerobatic …
by Celia Hayes
Within living memory, much of modern, built-up and suburban San Antonio was confined to well within the 410 Loop. I have friends not very much older than myself who can recall Nacodoches Road as a two-lane country road, doddling off …
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING
Written by Randy Watson
Where: Columbus Hall at San …
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Over last winter and spring, we were in the habit of taking our dogs with us and hiking stretches of the Salado Way – sometimes the portion between the old Voelcker Farm and Huebner Road – or along various …
by Celia Hayes
One of the things that drew me to the house that I eventually bought when I was first house-hunting in San Antonio in the early 1990s was that although it was the smallest, square-foot-wise of all the houses that I looked at …
by Celia Hayes
So – the rough translation is 'patriotic festival' – to observe and celebrate the independence of Mexico from Spain, and my daughter had happened to hear that there would be a more or less 'free' event scheduled at the Freeman Coliseum complex this weekend …
by Julia Hayden
On the road again, last week for a book festival at Sun City, Texas* . . . which is out on the sun-baked flats of grassland lightly sprinkled with woods, away on the edge of Georgetown, about half an hour's drive north of …