May 2021 Issue

Join the Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce as it presents the annual Rabbit Fest in Copperas Cove City Park. Each year over 42,000 people attend this festival which offers food and craft vendors, carnival rides, live entertainment, and much more to bring this strong Texas community together. The Rabbit Fest parade will take place promptly at 10:00 am on Saturday morning.

The 18th Annual Texas Masters of Fine Art and Craft Invitational Show will be held Friday, May 28, through Sunday, May 30, as 24 award-winning Texas artists transform the ballrooms of the Y.O. Ranch Hotel into a breath-taking gallery of original artwork. The Texas Masters of Fine Art & Craft Show is unique in that it is produced and run by the artists, themselves.

“The Gem of the Hill Country” is quickly becoming a contender for destination wine tasting. Along with the growing number of B&B properties; so too, wineries are springing up in and around Mason in increasing numbers. Grape growing is rapidly becoming an agricultural cult. Whether a grape grower utilizes their own grapes for a signature wine or sells the grapes to other wineries for production; Texas wine is in a class of its own.

Snag great vintage deals at our annual Antique Barn Sale & Market on May 29. We've got a lot of cool old stuff for you to re-purpose, refinish, & restore! You are sure to find something you will love. New Braunfels Conservation Society is cleaning our their barn of antiques, old stuff, architectural salvage, doors, ,furniture, rusty stuff, cast iron, chairs and lots of other old cool things.

Andy Smith knows all too well the meaning of “there’s no place like home.” With German roots running deep like so many of the Hill Country founding families and in combination with a heavy dose of determination inherited from a great great grandmother who was the first female banker in Texas; Andy is no stranger to shaking up a dream and making it a reality.