Gillespie Life
April 24, 2024
FULL HOUSE ’Tis the season for that unsettling rite of spring that comes to all multi-generational households: the music recital. To this day, I remember my first piano recital at age 8. It was in the Methodist church basement in my small hometown. I squirmed in my metal folding chair, hair oiled, f...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
When a Gillespie County Communications Center dispatcher picked up a 911 call on Saturday, Feb. 24, she knew it was serious. “The labored breathing and her voice (tipped me off),” said Stacy Martin, a 12-year veteran dispatcher. “You could hear the panic in her voice, and you could hear the wheezing...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
Expeditions don’t always go as planned. Or maybe that only happens to me on my expeditions. In my many years of writing about the outdoors, I’ve had p...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
It’s very easy and often reductive to have political demonization in cinema. Conservatives routinely rail against Hollywood for their implicit and som...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
Becker Vineyards’ Lavender Fest set for April 27-28 The 25th Annual Lavender Festival at Becker Vineyards is set for Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28....
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
Local chefs’ pizza making skills earn them top billing in international competition In three years, Untamed Wine Estates chefs mastered the art of piz...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
CULINARY ADVENTURE I am constantly surprised to discover new things — after all, 82 years and counting, you would think I have seen or heard it all. N...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
A program of works ranging from “Ave Maria” and “Nearer My God To Thee” to “Shenandoah” and “Drunken Sailor” will mark a concert featuring the male vo...
Gillespie Life
April 17, 2024
Eighteen Fredericksburg High School students in the 2024 iOpener class will host a free day camp on Saturday, April 20. The annual youth leadership cl...
