My maternal grandfather, Rudy Lange (a.k.a. “Opa”), was an entrepreneur. He completed 10th grade at St. Mary’s High School in Fredericksburg before starting his employment at various locations in Fredericksburg. In the spring of 1939, he became co-owner of Red and White (a grocery store) with partne...

HOUSE Amost pivotal change in culture happened in our lifetimes. Yet I would bet most of you haven’t recognized it. This simple conversion changed at a base level how we view and interact in the world. No part of society is untouched by it. Yet in a way we can’t even see it because it is so pervasiv...

Mrs. A.C. Schwethelm’s Cheese and Pineapple Salad appeared in “Cooking in Comfort, Vol. 1,” a cookbook compiled by members of the Comfort Historical Society in 1982. Mrs. Schwethelm was the former Marilyn Fortner, of Tyler, a 1950 graduate of Texas Woman’s University. That September, she accepted he...

During the annual meeting of the Museums West: The Western Museums of North America, in Fort Worth, Dr. Darrell Beauchamp, executive director of the M...

Gillespie County residents have until Tuesday, March 17 to submit applications for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program. More than 130,...

Jill Elliot opened Haberdashey Boutique on a chilly March day of 2001. She was three months pregnant when her retail space came to life in the 450-squ...