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Kerr County History Exhibit opens today
Installation underway of my exhibitof historic photographs and artifactsof Kerr County.The Museum of Western Art, on Bandera Highway, was kind enough to ask me to prepare an exhibit of some of my...
View ArticleA sad goodbye
I'll miss Joseph Benham and Dick Fitch, two local newsmen who passed away this week.Fitch was not only a newspaper man, but also a children's book author. I got to know him through those projects,...
View ArticleA time machine made of paper and ink
Have you ever wished for a time machine?As someone interested in local history, I have often wished I could go back in time and get answers to several persistent questions of our community's past.For...
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Tivy Artists Hall of Fame reception tonight at Pint & Plow
Artwork by my friend Tanya Wilderone of the student artists honored in theTivy Artists Hall of Fame from 1975 - 2015A reminder: the reception for the artists honored in the Tivy Artists Hall of Fame is...
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An 1839 Hill Country Journey: the lost San Saba mine
What did this part of the world look like before Joshua Brown and ten others built a shingle making camp here in the late 1840s? That camp was about where today's Water and Spring streets intersect,...
View ArticleA Fortune in Gold
Last week I shared the story of a group of men searching for the lost San Saba silver mine -- and from the responses I've received, that story of a lost fortune piqued the interest of more than one...
View ArticleA week of changes
Thursday's Kerrville Daily Times noted changes in two local organizations' leadership: the Kerrville Independent School District and the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce.The superintendent of KISD,...
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An Eight-Story Hotel in downtown Kerrville
Kerrville's Blue Bonnet Hotel, at the intersection of Water and Earl Garrett Streets.This photo was taken in the mid-1950s from atop the newly-built Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital,probably by Starr...
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An overlooked detail in an historic Kerr County photograph
Potter, Joshua, and Sarah Brown, around 1873,though I think it's closer to 1875.There is a detail in one of the historic photographs in my collection that few notice.The photograph, of Joshua, Sarah,...
View ArticleOn My Soapbox: the Kerr County Museum
Recently my friend Mark J. Armstrong, managing editor of this newspaper, wrote a column calling for a Kerr County history museum, and suggesting it should be named in honor of the late Clarabelle...
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From Ornitographies, a series of photographs by Xavi Bou.He photographs birds in flight using multiple exposuresNow that's a beautiful fly fishing rod. Almost worth the several years' wait.Writing...
View ArticleStage Coach Days in Kerrville
My friends Jon and Sandy Wolfmueller, of Wolfmueller's Books, gave me an interesting book last week. "Kerrville, Texas: a social and economic history," written by Frank R. Gilliland of Center Point. It...
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Heart of the Hills Inn, nowHeart o' The Hills Camp for GirlsA kind reader brought me this postcard this week.Wow. Amazing artworkmade with string in a type of knitting loom. Stay with the film long...
View ArticleHow early settlers found their way to Kerr County
Finding your way into Kerr County is a lot easier today than it was when our community was being formed. Today you can plug an address into a system using the Global Positioning System, and a...
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Reiter's Garage, foreground, Blue Bonnet Hotel, backgroundPiggly Wiggly just past the Sinclair station900 Block of Water Street, Kerrville, late 1920s, early 1930s.We all know H-E-B started in...
View ArticleThe Last Chalupa
Earlier this week, during the height of the butterfly migration, I found myself driving west on Jefferson, behind Kerrville's main H-E-B grocery store. The butterflies were thick there and looked like...
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Dedication of the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library,Kerrville, 1967.Wow. Here are some beautiful nature photos. Isn't that jellyfish something?If you think Airstream trailers are cool, check out their...
View ArticleThe Gifts of Howard Butt Jr.
I was saddened this week to learn of the passing of Howard Butt Jr., a kind and intelligent man who dedicated his life to promoting Christian thought and action, especially among laypersons.Five years...
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The Cascade Pool, downtown Kerrville, circa mid-1950sRemember lining up dominoes and then knocking over the first one and the rest of the line followed? This video shows an amazing set up of 15,000...
View ArticleA Tour of Downtown Kerrville before 1920
I've been looking for something in my files, which means I've been finding all sorts of other interesting things other than the thing that started the whole search.For instance, I found a letter...
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