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Randy Ersch takes wood and makes miracles for people with special needs. His Fredericksburg workshop – Ingrained in Wood Design Specialties – hums with activity when he opens it up to special-needs clients of Advantage Care Services (ACS) for a “shop day.”  Under his watchful eyes and with his non-stop encouragement, young adults with cognitive issues enthusiastically sand, drill and hammer on simple projects like bird houses that to them become works of woodworking ar ...

The old-timers thought Glenda and Tom Slaughter were making a massive mistake, but the pioneering pair pressed on to successfully establish the first commercial winemaking operation in Bandera County. Cradled in a picturesque canyon alongside the clear-flowing Sabinal River, the Lost Maples Winery at Polvadeau Vineyards attracts growing numbers of wine enthusiasts as well as tourists to the Vanderpool area including v ...

While it is a generous gesture for donors to commission statues for their churches, it hardly seems out of the ordinary.  But the story of how St. Theresa Catholic Church in Junction, TX became the recipient of their Holy Family statue is anything but ordinary.  Although the statue was commissioned, completed, placed in the Church and blessed in 2016, you might say this story began at least 23 years ago.

For many sportsmen and women, the culmination of a truly successful hunt comes only after the acquisition of an attractive display featuring their prized “trophy.” As a result, myriad head, horn and other taxidermic exhibitions, found across the globe and popular for millennia, currently adorn countless homes and workspaces, each one recounting a special, unique experience.

Heres a pop quiz question.  Can you finish this advertising slogan?  “Double your pleasure, double your fun, with . . .“   If you came of age in the 1950s or ‘60s, you know exactly how that slogan goes—(we’ll get to that in a minute).  And I’ll bet you remember Chuck Berry.

Excitement is still buzzing both locally and across the country nearly five months after country music artist Jon Pardi filmed a music video at the Twin Sisters Dance Hall south of Blanco. Pardi, 31, filmed the video for “Head Over Boots” at the old dance hall, which was constructed in the 1870s, on March 2.

In Texas we do things right. It’s just who we are. And when it comes to our BBQ, that standard is our battle cry. David Herrera, owner of Dave’s Old Fashioned BBQ in Fredericksburg, Texas is always up by the crack of dawn. He doesn’t see what he does as work, because he loves what he does. What he does is barbeque and he does it right. At 5am David and his pit man are building a fire, from the mesquite wood stacked along the back fe ...

You say you’re 10 years old and you want to ride a real bucking bull? No problem. Big D Mini Bulls of Wimberley can help. And we’re not talking about some coin-operated rocking bull in a mall or a mechanical bull in a carnival.

Some people just have really terrific ideas.  In August 1999, sisters Maurrie Sussman and Becky Clarke had so much fun on a fly-fishing and camping trip in Montana that they decided to invite their friends to join them.  Seventeen years and close to 7,600 friends later, Sisters On The Fly (SOTF) is still going strong!

“Howdy, folks. Howdy, howdy.” That’s Big Tex—all 55 feet of him—welcoming everyone to the State Fair of Texas. He first showed up at the fair in 1952. He learned to speak by the next year and by 1997 gave a friendly Texas wave. Big Tex is one of the most famous Texans on earth—and the tallest. Like many Baby Boomers, he has had some problems with age.