Long before whiskey, there was rum. Distilled from fermented molasses, rum, known as “kill-devil” when it first appeared in the...
One should avoid buying a “pig in a poke.” The term, dating at least back to the year 1555, references...
Blue smoke. A sip of a heavy beer or a spirit. Large leather chairs. Sports on the television. Hill Country...
“We’re all in the oil business. We’re in the other oil business.” This being Texas, one might think John Gambini...
The old gas pumps remain as a symbol of the place’s history. There aren’t many Zagat-rated restaurants with a screen...
The Texas Hill Country is blessed with abundance of gorgeous landscapes, breath-taking views, and, fortunately in the dog days of...
Texas’ historic dance halls have been closing or, more sadly, deteriorating and collapsing in small communities since the dawn of...
Six months after the first 136 settlers arrived in Fredericks-burg in May 1846, Dr. Wilhelm Keidel rode into town on...
The commissioned art and expansive murals of Hill Country native Lee Casbeer and his brother, Matt, grace interior walls and...
Way back in 1971, near Fort Davis, Gretchen Glasscock planted a vineyard on the southern slope of Blue Mountain. It...
Take a long, tall sixth-generation German-Texan farmer named Bradley Ottmers, who spends all his waking hours in a cowboy hat....
While extreme weather devastated grape crops across the nation and world, Texas grape growers were spared and experienced perfect weather...