The Rockefeller-Kerrville Myth
There are some myths floating around in the stream of our community's history, and occasionally it's fun to research their source and test them to see, in the words of one of my favorite television...
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Our Guadalupe River
"Flat Rock" before the dam was built, KerrvilleThe story of our community starts with the Guadalupe River, and the river itself starts with our community. The river gathers from springs and streams in...
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Second Division visits Kerrville
Second Division enlisted men's camp, Kerrville, May 1926Photograph compliments of Lanza Teague.The front-page headline "Second Division of Regular Army Will Camp Here This Week End" appeared in the...
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Saturday Kerrville Mystery Photo
This is a repeat: last week, this post didn't publish correctly, so I'm trying again...So, how well do you know Kerrville? This photograph was taken within the city limits of modern-day Kerrville. If...
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Saturday Kerrville Mystery Photo: answer revealed
This photo, taken by Mark Mosty, was taken at the Kerr County courthouse square. This little plaque is on top of the cannon on the courthouse square. The cannon is on the Earl Garret Street side of...
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A gem of a riverside park
Louise Hays Park, Kerrville, under construction, 1950.Like many of you, I have been very concerned with the plans for the Louise Hays Park, especially the plans to remove so many beautiful trees....
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Louise Hays Park: here are the City's plans
A lot of confusion is circulating about the closure of the Louise Hays Park (for around 18 months), and the destruction of many trees within the park. I have several emails forwarded to me which quote...
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Saturday Kerrville Mystery Photo
So, how well do you know Kerrville? This photograph was taken within the city limits of modern-day Kerrville. If you have a guess, just put it in the comments section on the blog. If you receive...
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Kerrville Mystery Photo: Answer Revealed
This plaque is found on the north end of the Sidney Baker Street bridge. It was originally on the old steel bridge which crossed the river; it was damaged when they pulled it off of the old bridge and...
View ArticleRemembering the Texas Arts and Crafts Fair
Like many others in Kerrville, I was so disappointed to learn of the demise of the Texas Arts & Crafts Fair. The fair began in another era, by leaders from long ago, and it had a great run, kept...
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Birthdays and history
Joe Herring Jr. pretending to be a cowboy.I celebrated another march around the Sun last week and realized as the trips add up, I'm becoming a member of a group whose experiences younger folk never had...
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Early Kerrville Computer
Float, Tivy Homecoming Parade, mid-1960sIt might be hard to read, but there between Kerrville's Bluebonnet Hotel and the Charles Schreiner Bank is a float in a Tivy Homecoming Parade which features a...
View ArticleKerrville 50 years ago today
Sometimes it's fun to pick a random number -- say 50 -- and go back that many years and see what was on the front page of the Kerrville newspapers.Fifty years ago in Kerrville, in early September 1963,...
View Article75 years ago in Kerrville
There were two newspapers publishing weeklies in Kerrville 75 years ago: the Kerrville Times and the Kerrville Mountain Sun. For fun I pulled up the front pages of each -- they both published issues...
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100 years ago this week in Kerrville
Kerrville depot of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass RailroadOver the past two weeks I've done an experiment: I pulled up newspapers from the past, studied the headlines, and reported what was going on...
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Newly found images from Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library dedication
When the Butt-Holdsworth Library was dedicated here in Kerrville in 1967, it was a big deal. Many remember being there that day -- and many brought their cameras with them. These photos where shared...
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Kerrville 125 years ago this week -- oops, 126.
Over the past few weeks I've researched old newspapers to report what was happening in our community years ago. The first week I studied the newspapers of 1963, to report what was happening here 50...
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Last in the Series: Kerrville 150 years ago
For the past several weeks I've enjoyed presenting an experiment on this page: to research newspapers from years ago to learn what was happening here in Kerrville during that time. The first in the...
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A centennial celebration: Clarabelle Snodgrass turns 100
Well over 100 people joined together Saturday to wish Clarabelle Snodgrass a very happy 100th birthday.There are several people in our community who know a lot more about local history than I, and one...
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Five views of the plans for Kerrville's Louise Hays Park
Although the Louise Hays Park renovations have been in the news lately, I don't think many people have actually seen the proposed plans for the park. Please feel free to share these images with those...
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