Round Top Art Festival: Weekend Art Crawl Culminates at The Compound
The Compound will host its second annual Round Top Art Festival May 16 – 18, and this time the entire town of Round Top is joining in on the fun.
April 2018
The Sale of Three Centuries at Seward Plantation
Charlie Ham and Jeremy Teel, co-owners of Antique Rovers based in Montalba, Texas, thought they were going to catch their breath when they took...
More Round Top “Snapshots” from Gloria Hickey
Gloria Schwarz Hickey was born in September, 1945 in El Paso while her father, Hilmer Schwarz, was stationed at Biggs Field. The young serviceman took his...
Seward Plantation: A Texas Legacy
A more poetic writer might say, “the mists of time shrouded the Seward Plantation as I made my approach in mid-February.” I’m not poetic....
Gloria Hickey’s “Snapshots” of Round Top
Gloria Schwarz Hickey was born in September, 1945 in El Paso while her father, Hilmer Schwarz, was stationed at Biggs Field. She remained in far West...
On the Porch: Decorating Fearlessly
I tracked alongside the cougar as she paced back and forth in the cage and positioned the collar over her head just as I...
Shooting the Breeze: Mary Louise Young
Mary Louise Young is a moving target. The entrepreneur splits her time between her historic log home in Chappell Hill and Houston. She avoids...
Stirring the Pot: Wine Bar at the Grand Fayette Hotel
Recently I spent a perfect Sunday afternoon in Fayetteville. After wandering through the bi-annual show Antiques on the Square, I joined chefs Kathy and...
Living the Dream by Living History
For interpreter Laura Fisher, living history every day is living the dream. “Not only do we preserve history by keeping traditions and techniques alive,...
Wiley and Cynthia George Conserve Seward Plantation
When Wiley and Cynthia George of Houston started looking for a country property, a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, as held...
Change is the Only Constant
Although ol’ Heraclitus of Ephesus might have been talking about us and our business when he said, “Change is the only constant,” we did...