Round Top August Calendar: Live Music, Farm Brunches, Winery Fun and More
Don't let the dog days of summer get you down. Mount up and head out to Round Top to celebrate the end of the...
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Round Top Area Parks & Recreation: Three Top Spots to Live the Lake Life This Summer
Three Round Top area lakes offer camping and recreation opportunities for cool summertime fun for everyone.
Greater Round Top’s Best Off-the-Beaten-Path Restaurants: Obscure Places to Find Good Food
Great eateries abound for those willing to go a little off the tourist trail.
Round Top’s Most Fashionable Pups Hit the Runway at the 2026 Mutt Gala
The annual Vanity Fur fundraiser returns to Rifle Hall on May 16 with 13 dogs on the runway, six award categories, and 10 years of community support for Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter.
Round Top Celebrating Milestones in 2020
In 2020, Round Top, a hub of history and art, is celebrating several milestones including the 150th anniversary of the town’s incorporation and the golden anniversaries of Festival Institute and Shakespeare at Winedale.
Cool Fun in Summer’s Dog Days
Although it's another sizzling August in Texas, only party-pooping pooches stay on the porch during the dog days of summer. We've rounded up some cool fun in the Roundtopolis™.
Experience the Power of Women and Music at Festival Hill
Festival Hill, home to a nationally known concert hall and a world-renowned music institute, is celebrating women in the arts on June 23, 2018, with three concerts featuring the music of Joan Tower, America's preeminent female composer.
Roundtopolis: Old Places, New Eyes
In 1957, when she was a fourth grader at David Crockett Elementary, Cathye Moon got hooked on photography when she got a Brownie Hawkeye...
Round Top Festival Institute: Master Carpenter Larry Birkelbach
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music...
Round Top Festival Institute: The Magnificence
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music...
Round Top Festival Institute: The Musician James Dick
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music...
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...
Ultimate Back Roads Playlists
When the swallows are making their cross country journey to Capistrano, they tweet and twitter to pass the time. (See the intro to 10...
Road Trippin’ to Round Top
The Roundtopolis is a magical realm encompassing Fayette County and seven of its neighbors. As the last rural stronghold between Austin and Houston, it...
