The second annual Fredericksburg Book Festival brought over 1,000 people to town for a day of thoughtful discussion, reading, poetry writing and celebration of the written word. “Our featured authors moved audiences to both tears and laughter. Their eloquence, lived experiences and deep research wer...

HOUSE Some wily entrepreneur in the Old West understood marketing. This coffee bean supplier wanted to make his beans stand out among the grizzled cowboys and settlers who swarmed up the cattle trails and carved out the west. He made and sold Arbuckles’ coffee, one of the few luxuries afforded deniz...

Youth Livestock

At left, worshippers head into Holy Ghost Lutheran Church as a light sprinkle of rain begins on the Church to Church Walk, held Tuesday, Dec. 16. The ...

HOUSE Power belongs not to those who create, but to those who control. These are the people I refer to as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers stand in every indu...

HOUSE Humanizing the inanimate object Do you name your bread machine? I have just been made aware that there is a whole sub-section of humanity that n...