When Kerrville photographer Leah Thomason snapped a photo of model Danille Rodriguez at the Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne, she knew she had gotten “the shot.”
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You never know who you’re going to meet in Kerrville. One of those surprises can be found in H. Richard Leuchtag, Ph.D., a very active nonagenarian.
Everyone loves a good story.
I had a telephone call a few weeks ago from a kind person at H-E-B corporate offices, inviting me to a groundbreaking ceremony here for the new Kerrville store on March 6.
The neighborhood around today’s Doyle School Community Center has a rich history, centered on the old Doyle School and the businesses of that area, including the Famous Door, which was a cafe and dance hall honored with an historical marker a few years ago. For many years this area was prima…
I love meeting new people and hearing their stories.
This week, with some fanfare, the City of Kerrville, in a joint workshop with the board of the Heart of the Hills Heritage Center, announced their partnership in housing and creating a new history museum to tell the story of the Texas Hill Country. The museum will be housed in the house at 5…
Shortly before Thanksgiving, my friend Michael Bowlin, who has been writing about Kerr County history a lot longer than I, sent over a clipping from the Janesville, Wisconsin, Gazette, dated Feb. 10, 1868:
The Dynamic Learning Institute will kick off its 2020 spring semester class offerings on Jan. 23 with “Inside Apollo 13.” The class will begin at 6 p.m. at Schreiner University.
Oct. 31 passed without fanfare, but for Kerrville’s Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation it was a significant milestone. Seventy-five years earlier, in the midst of World War II, brothers Hal & Charlie Peterson, along with their trusted manager Guy Griggs, and associates C.H. Gilmer an…
On Christmas Eve, my new friend Louis Amestoy, who is managing editor of this newspaper, wrote a column on several topics, including well-deserved praise for Bob Waller, a compelling photograph taken by Tom Holden of this year’s last full moon, and, well, squirrels. He’d found a clip from an…
I resent how much effort it takes to get dressed every morning.
Of all of the quotations of Aldo Leopold, the one heard most often — at least from professionals in the areas of land management, range science and wildlife biology — is “Game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which heretofore destroyed it — axe, plow, cow, fire and gun.”
Texas is a large, diverse state, and plants that work for one region may not always be the best choice in a different region.
This coming Tuesday, Christmas Eve, will be exactly 150 years since Charles Schreiner opened his store in Kerrville.
Our Lady Of the Hills High School students are logging extra hours in the library.
This week, an image of H-E-B’s new Kerrville store was published in this newspaper; the building is scheduled to be completed late next year.
Since next Thursday is Halloween, I thought I’d share some ghost stories from my files:
Have you ever considered that the colonization of this state by Stephen F. Austin — the “Father of Texas” — was a probable cause of the American Civil War?
As with many a Halloween decorating scheme, this one started with a simple idea that got out of hand. In five years, a few floating candles have blazed into a full-blown reproduction of the magical Diagon Alley from the world of Harry Potter books and movies.
This weekend will be the final three performances for the Fredericksburg Theater Company’s fall drama, “12 Angry Men.”
Tickets are now on sale for the Fredericksburg Theater Company’s sixth annual fundraiser, “Return To The Cabaret!” The production will play one night only, Friday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m., at the Steve W. Shepherd Theater, 1668 U.S. 87 South, Fredericksburg. The show stars guest performer Donald…
It’s the last weekend to get a taste of the Roaring Twenties with the Hill Country Arts Foundation’s production of “These Shining Lives.”
Country music performers Charlie Daniels and Scooter Brown, among others, are coming to The Backyard at Fritztown in Fredericksburg, on Nov. 11.
Several kind readers have forwarded me the real estate listing for what was until recently the headquarters building of the LDBrinkman Corporation. The building is for sale, though quite out of the price range of this rural printer.
How did a small isolated settlement on the edge of the western frontier become so prosperous, after a devastating Civil War? Especially when it took two days to travel the existing military supply road to the nearest large village of San Antonio.
The Ingram Garden Club hopes everyone’s garden survived the onset of this cooler weather we’ve been having.
All the students of St. Peter’s School had a special visit from the city of Kerrville firefighters and Fire Pup.
Members of a local Republican group said they enjoyed playing bingo with a room full of veterans at the VA Medical Center in Kerrville on Tuesday.
To recognize October as Family History Month, the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library will join the Genealogy Network of Texas for a series of webinars starting at noon Oct. 18 in the library’s first floor meeting room.
Toni Anne Dashiell will be the guest speaker for the Republican Women of Kerr County luncheon set for 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 in the Bluebonnet Room at the Inn of the Hills, 1001 Junction Highway.
By Active citizenship is a vital aspect of being a lifelong learner. Dynamic Learning champions the ongoing personal pursuit of knowledge motivated by desires for self-sustainability, social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development. As the Harvard Business Review said, “lifelon…
They refer to themselves as “Mooney Drivers” and since the 1950s, their enthusiasm for piloting Mooney Aircraft has brought visitors, business and new residents to the Kerrville area.
A photograph loaned to me this week by the Lehmann family was intriguing for what it did not show. There was something missing in the image, something I assumed would be there.
Growing up in the country in the Permian Basin of the High Plains of Texas, I have many fond memories of finding horny toads and box turtles and of listening to quail calls and the sounds of pump jacks. But after leaving Texas to finish my graduate education, I did not spend much time in the…
It’s all there: the famous water lilies, the wisteria-draped Japanese bridge and the glorious explosion of natural color and texture that is Giverny, the home and gardens of Claude Monet, French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting. In the 43 years he lived and painted in Give…
I received a nice letter last week from the daughter-in-law of Louise Hays, telling me about some photographs of the building of the Louise Hays Park in a single day. The letter told how the images had been copied and given to the city of Kerrville, and the folks at the city were kind enough…
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word “change” in a verb tense: “As to become different or to undergo transformation.”
Last weekend, I hopped in my truck to explore parts of the county I don’t get to visit very often, traveling along Wharton Road, crossing the Guadalupe, continuing on to Center Point, and then around several sites in that city.
Trees are an important part of the Hill Country landscape. With our environmental factors including heat, drought and soil conditions, trees in the Hill Country are fighting continuous challenges.
Regular readers will be familiar with the fact that while the vast majority of my columns deal with nature in the Hill Country, I do sometimes write about topics having a wider scope. Last week, I wrote about being a good citizen of the Earth. It got me to thinking about a National Geographi…
Texas is a large, diverse state, and plants that work for one region may not always be the best choice in a different region. The Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) created the N.I.C.E. Native Plant Partners program (formerly called Operation NICE!) to help nurseries offer natives that ar…
Philip Johnson has been named Concertmaster of Kerrville’s Symphony of the Hills, beginning with the 2019-20 season.
At the risk of being obvious, my topic today is avoiding the obvious.
Editor’s note: The following originally ran in The Kerrville Daily Times on March 31, 2005. Musician and songwriter Tom Kellar — who was a Times staff writer at the time — landed a much-coveted phone interview with Daniel Johnston several months after the release of “The Late Great Daniel Jo…
This past weekend, the city of Kerrville celebrated its “130th Birthday” with several events along the river, including a musical performance in Louise Hays Park called “Riverfest.”
If you are a human being and you live on the Earth, then you are a citizen of the Earth. You also may be a citizen of a country, city, family or whatever else. But as a citizen of the Earth, you are using the resources of the Earth for heat, light, food, water, oxygen, medicine, transportati…
Are you naturally curious? If so, you have likely enjoyed the sensation of learning about subjects that your mind was piqued to explore by curiosity.
A few years ago, an edition of Texas Wildlife magazine contained two articles about coyotes that I found fascinating and informative. Here are, briefly, some of the things discussed in these articles.
There was a time when Kerrville’s Jefferson Street had a nickname: Church Street.
Descendants of artist Lee Ethel are on a scavenger hunt, and they need your help.
