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...

We had never eaten shrimp before the mid-1950s. Then an older sister (Imogene) married and moved near Galveston. On one visit she fried shrimp, though I doubt our parents were impressed. My mother never cooked shrimp before the end of those fabulous ’50s and knew nothing of Creole flavors. No Creole...

HOUSE Here’s a fun new trend you can worry about: Title Inflation. It first took root in large organizations. There, it’s an accepted practice that in...

Another recipe Deanna suggested I investigate from the Kerrville Wesley-Philathea Class August 1931 edition of recipes was a tomato cocktail submitted...

Cinematic Considerations Nothing in “Marty Supreme” truly matters outside of Timothée Chalamet. D irected by Josh Safdie from a screenplay he cowrote ...