Gillespie Life
July 11, 2018
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Gillespie Life
July 11, 2018
How much of your current knowledge can be traced back to a filmstrip you saw in fifth grade? Anyone old enough to remember watching “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” on Sunday evenings will remember filmstrip Fridays — or “naptime” — in elementary school. Those were the days your teacher drag...
Gillespie Life
July 11, 2018
JULY 10, 1968 Fredericksburg’s July Race Festival went into the books as a decided success, with overall good attendance and spirited races marking the four-day event. Plucky Rose, a 10-year-old gelding owned by Abe Reeves of Arlington, won the Independence Derby on Sunday afternoon, finishing two l...
Gillespie Life
July 11, 2018
Eleven local high school seniors recently completed a five-day Youth Leadership Conference sponsored by the Hill Country chapter of the Military Order...
Gillespie Life
July 3, 2018
Super. That was the word that best summed up our trip to Serbia — and the word that Serbians loved to use the most. “How was your flight?” “Well, the ...
Gillespie Life
July 3, 2018
Southern Living magazine has featured an “Idea House” in its pages for 26 years, and this season, the home has a Fredericksburg connection and is prac...
Gillespie Life
July 3, 2018
Shooting. It’s just squeeze, bang, reload, repeat, right? Not so. Competing in shooting sports can yield life skills that are useful on and off the fi...
Gillespie Life
July 3, 2018
JULY 3, 1968 A gala Fourth of July Festival will be held here Thursday through Sunday at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds. Horse races will be th...
Gillespie Life
June 27, 2018
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park continues its outdoor “Movies Under the Stars” series on Saturday, June 30, with the screening of “Yellow S...
Gillespie Life
June 27, 2018
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