Texas Tales Long, long ago when people actually went to downtown department stores to buy their holidays gifts as opposed to doing all their shopping on their cell phone, a Texas company founded in 1896 actually depended on mail delivery for a thick slice of its annual revenue. And, with the excepti...

Hill Country Outdoors Before Sea World came to Texas to charge people to look at whales, Capt. Cott Plummer had a go at it. It didn’t go well. The incredible story of “Gray Moby” began on March 10, 1910, when Plummer came across a massive sperm whale stranded in the mud in 12 foot of water in Oil Po...

I know it’s Christmas. But here’s a tale of Easter. My wife and daughter have opened a shop that happens to be housed in a historic Fredericksburg home known as Easter Haus. I was curious about the provenance of the white building on Auguste Street. So, I asked the owner, Bill Petmecky, Jr., about t...

Fredericksburg never does anything with half effort, and even though it’s more than two years away, the town’s 175th anniversary will be no different....

The older we get, the faster time seems to pass. But the history of Texas is full of instances in which the time between the beginning and the end of ...

The holiday mania has arrived. The stresses of not knowing what to buy loved ones, how to decorate the house and what to wear to that Christmas party ...