The Circus is Coming to Town!!!
Over 40 acrobats will come tumbling into Boerne on February 26...when East meets West in a fast-paced, exciting production featuring internationally award-winning acts. There will not be three rings under the big top, but instead a state-of-the-art theater filled with spectacular backdrops, beautiful costuming, lighting, and of course the artists!
The New Shanghai Circus presents a revolving line-up of favorite acts including Diablo (Chinese Yo-Yo), Bicycle Trick ...
Legendary Texas Blues Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan returns to Mercer Street Dancehall in Dripping Springs Texas on Friday February 20, 2015 - Doors 6pm - music starts 8pm.
Jimmie Vaughan is far more than just one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the world of popular music. As Guitar Player Magazine notes, "He is a virtual deity–a living legend."
The Original Texas Star Trail from Fredericksburg is an annual central Texas weeklong trail riding event usually starting around the first weekend of March of each year. The ride traverses and covers a route used by most of the former settlers in the Texas hill country around the Fredericksburg Texas area when they needed to go to the Texas Capital in Austin.
We've all been there...the thrill of a vacation on the horizon, but the dread of security checks, baggage claim and adhering to someone else's schedule. The airline schedule, cruise ship, bus ... but have you thought about alternatives that give you full control of your vacation?
It's a new year and time for vacation resolutions.
Come sample a biscuit cooked over an open camp fire, make a corn husk doll or "knot" doll, make a rope, stop at the forge to observe the blacksmiths at work. These are some of the activities being planned for Spring Break at the Pioneer Museum. Spring Break at the Pioneer Museum starts on Saturday, March 7 and continues Monday through Saturday the 9th – 14th, with a wide variety of hands-on activities, demonstrations and reenactments each day.
Those who come to the Texas Hill Country from some less-blessed location may not understand the phenomenon of a real Texas dance hall. Sure, other parts of the country have places to dance–nightclubs, ballrooms, or repurposed roller rinks.
But the folks who settled Texas had the foresight to build halls designed for dancing.
Actually, the original halls were multi-purpose and multi-ethnic, according to Stephen Dean, co-Founder of
Walk down the dusty streets of Pioneer Town and picture what it was like to live in a Western village more than 100 years ago. See the blacksmith shop, emporium, chapel, barbershop, saloon, sheriff's office, post office, newspaper office, and don't miss the bottle house, made entirely of glass soda bottles.
Then stay for a few nights at the adjacent
The Big Bend area of Texas is unique, is beautiful, is important, and one of the least visited locations in the Lone Star State. Why? I'm glad I asked myself that question and I'll answer all of it, starting with its location first.
Big Bend is remote—tucked away in the deepest southwestern area of the state—formed when the Rio Grande flowing southeast makes its big bend to the northeast.
The McCulloch County courthouse square in Brady sports an actual World War 2 Howitzer cannon. I especially wanted to visit this artifact because as a boy I had assembled a plastic model of a Howitzer.
Looking up from the cannon, right across the street I saw a store entitled "
You know something? Those of us who fish the waters of the Texas Hill Country can count our lucky stars.
Not only do we have world-class angling for warm-water species like largemouth black bass, stripers, catfish and crappie — we also get a chance at a great sport fish from those cold-water streams up in Yankee land.
