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Rambling Boy: The King of the Western Belt Buckle Collectors
Robert Brandes is the king of Western belt buckle collectors. He has roughly a thousand of them, and his e-mail address incorporates the words “buckles.com.” His calling card says “Western Buckles” in large type and has his name and address…
Rambling Boy: Reading is Fundamental
For the next few Friday mornings, you will find me in a classroom at Marfa Elementary School reading The Wind in the Willows aloud to a group of Mrs. Lujan’s second graders. I will be there because I am participating in a pilot project…
Glorious Gulf of Mexico: Life Below the Blue
Glorious is not the adjective most Texans would use to describe the Gulf of Mexico. Most of us take it for granted. Generally, the nicest thing we say about the Gulf is that it’s close and convenient. Texas A&M University Press author…
Friends With Words: Art Is For Everybody
I’m going to climb on my soapbox. My legs are short, so it may take me a while to clamber up…
Brace yourself.
Here it comes.
Art is for everybody!
Yes, everybody—even people like me, a redneck tomboy who as a child considered…
Arts for Rural Texas: Opening the Possibilities
Allyson Hoffmann doesn’t remember whether she was in the first or second grade when she took her first class sponsored by Arts for Rural Texas in Fayetteville (ARTS), but she does remember her first project.
“We painted three mice. Each…
Bethlehem Lutheran Church: A Community Pillar in Round Top
For 150 years, Bethlehem Lutheran Church has been a community pillar in Round Top.
The history of the church and the town are deeply intertwined.
“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Matthew 18:20
THE…
Round Top Festival Institute: No Ordinary Dream
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist James Dick asks: Why dream the ordinary?
Master carpenter Larry Birkelbach maintains: The impossible just takes longer.
Two men. Four hands. One goal: to build an inimitable institution that’s…
Shooting the Breeze: Bernard Mendoza
Bernard Mendoza in Round Top
Bernard Mendoza’s move to Round Top was prompted by his first grandchild being born a Texan. At the time, he and his wife Marilyn Albert lived in California, having moved to America from London in 1980. They…
Voices of Bright Sky: A Thistle Downe State of Mind
What is Thistle Downe? Well, it’s a charming miniature twig house, an inspiring and entertaining book about trolls and fairies—and for its creators, Molly and Gary Whitney, it’s a state of mind.
The Whitneys built the little house from…
Jessica Robertson Visits Round Top
Jessica Robertson, one of the stars of A&E's Duck Dynasty television show, signed copies of the book she co-authored with her husband Jep: The Good, The Bad and The Grace of God. The book signing was at the Junk Gypsy World Headquarters…