Lonn Taylor Archives

Round Top Relief Efforts: How to Help Kerr County Flood Victims Locally

Here are just a few ways you can help with Texas flood relief through our local partners.

by Candice Cowin

Find info on the 2020 Round Top 4th of July Celebration Here. Yesterday was the 231st Fourth of July to be celebrated in the United...

by Katie Stavinoha

November in Texas is the month for pecans.

by Katie Stavinoha

Photographs of the early Round Top Antiques Shows are hard to come by, so we asked people who have been around since the early...

by Katie Stavinoha

There is no entry in the Handbook of Texas for John Hayward Randolph, nor was he ever elected to the Texas Institute of Letters,...

by Katie Stavinoha

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...

by Katie Stavinoha

One Saturday morning in May several years ago, I went to call on Otto Heinsohn, a blacksmith I knew in the little town...

by Katie Stavinoha

Texas-German Christmas by Lonn Taylor When I lived in Fayette County, the Round Top Christmas was an explosive event. Round Top was a German...

by Katie Stavinoha

Life was simpler in Round Top when I moved there in 1970. The Antiques Show took place on one weekend in April and...

by Katie Stavinoha

by Lonn Taylor The Rambling Boy The weeks between March 6, 1836, when the Alamo fell, and April 21, when Santa Anna was defeated...

by Katie Stavinoha