One of the more intriguing recipes in Sarah Morgan’s “The Saga of Texas Cookery” (1973) is her own Texas-Style Gnocchi, pronounced nyo kee. Sarah claimed there was nothing quite like it, and she was right. The whole point of cooking, after all, is making a dish one’s own, and she had certainly done ...

Based on Denis Johnson’s novella, the movie “Train Dreams” follows the life of Robert Grainier, a solitary logger in the American Northwest whose existence is shaped by labor, fleeting connections and an ever-changing country that seems just out of reach. Much like the man it chronicles, Grainier’s ...

Methodist Hospital | Hill Country will hold the 25th annual “Girl Talk” event, an educational and interactive night designed to help young girls and parents or guardians navigate the changes that come with growing up. The program is set for Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Fredericksburg E...

Winners of the first Hill Country Short Story Contest were announced last Saturday during the opening ceremony of the second Fredericksburg Book Festi...

It was the first time she had ever been that far up the canyon. She and her husband, Judah, always stopped at the barbed wire fence marking the bounda...

HOUSE Once you’ve reached midlife, you are the least stupid you have ever been or ever will be. That’s why every person who has passed that milestone ...