While working on this week’s “50 Years Ago” column, I ran across advertisements for “School Closings” that would be occurring at opposite ends of Gillespie County at two of the three remaining country schools still operating. The ads in the paper 50 years ago listed Stonewall’s end-of-the-year closi...

A telegram from the Brooklyn naval authorities dated March 30, 1922 notified Peter Lemos of Kerrville that the body of his brother, Francisco, had arrived on American soil and was at last on his way home. Francisco (Pancho) Lemos, the son of immigrant parents, worked as a farm and ranch laborer for ...

Not again. Once more, someone was on the phone asking me if I would be in a stage production. Readers of this column know I am a reluctant thespian. I was not born with the “let’s turn the barn into a theater and put on a show” gene. Even so, I seem to end up in the footlights on a regular basis, ju...

Home is an interesting word. The dictionary defines home as “a place of residence, a social unit formed between a group, a familiar setting or a place...

It seems the hot topic right now is the city election! Facebook and the forums have brought many city election half-truths and flat-out lies about the...

I was backstage at a recent show speaking with the child of a national recognized performer. You would know who this is, but since I wasn’t conducting...