Brady, TX – Labor Day weekend in the True Heart of Texas means it's time for the 42nd Anniversary of the World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off scheduled for Friday, September 4thand Saturday, September 5th in Richards Park along the banks of Brady Creek. Brady National Bank and Premier Silica are proud to bring you the 2015 event with a weekend full of food, fun and festivities for the entire family to enjoy.
The Goat Cook-Off is a unique tradition that started in Brady, the county seat of McC ...
As has happened for the last 133 years, the famed St. Louis Day Celebration will again open the gates to visitors from all over the state. Dubbed decades ago by the Texas Tourist Agency as "The Homecoming for the State of Texas", the giant festival will again serve tons of barbecued beef, Alsatian style sausage, and food, drink, music, games and fun all day long for friends who make the trip each year to Castroville.
You have got to come to the Cowboy Capital of the World. Well known as a small Texas town with real Texas flare, Bandera’s history runs deep. Each year Bandera remembers its roots at the annual Labor Day weekend Event, Celebrate Bandera. Their claim to fame began in the late 1800’s.
The Annual Kendall County Fair is one of the oldest Fair’s in Texas. This year will mark the 110th annual fair which will be held on Labor Day Weekend, Sept 3 through 6th in Boerne, Texas at the Fairgrounds (1307 River Road). As the 2015 President of the Kendall County Fair Association, I want to personally invite you to come out and enjoy our 4 day event.
The Boerne Antiques Show, which will be held February 21 and 22, 2015, at the historic Kendall County Fairgrounds in Boerne, Texas celebrates its 35th year as one of Texas' most prestigious antiques show, providing collectors, dealers, design professionals, and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional antiques, uncover a hidden treasure or discover a much longed-for heirloom.
Walk down the dusty streets of Pioneer Town and picture what it was like to live in a Western village more than 100 years ago. See the blacksmith shop, emporium, chapel, barbershop, saloon, sheriff's office, post office, newspaper office, and don't miss the bottle house, made entirely of glass soda bottles.
Then stay for a few nights at the adjacent
The McCulloch County courthouse square in Brady sports an actual World War 2 Howitzer cannon. I especially wanted to visit this artifact because as a boy I had assembled a plastic model of a Howitzer.
Looking up from the cannon, right across the street I saw a store entitled "
You know something? Those of us who fish the waters of the Texas Hill Country can count our lucky stars.
Not only do we have world-class angling for warm-water species like largemouth black bass, stripers, catfish and crappie — we also get a chance at a great sport fish from those cold-water streams up in Yankee land.
The historic German community of Fredericksburg has long been considered one of the Texas Hill Country's premier destinations replete with exceptional restaurants, colorful shops and boutiques, quaint inns and lots of Old World atmosphere – ample reasons indeed to pay a visit and stay a while. Remarkably, thanks largely to the considerable efforts of area entrepreneurs Rosemary and Dick Estenson, located within the very heart of the township there now exists an inclusive refuge amazingly feat ...
Gems of the Hill Country, Lapidaries and Jewelers, is owned by husband and wife team Brad Hodges and B. Diane Eames, and is located in Ingram on Hwy 39, just west of Kerrville. Gems of the Hill Country is on the right, just as you enter the historic Old Ingram Loop, where a quaint collection of artisans' shops and boutiques line the street.
Their shop is full of jewelry set with sparkling gems, most of them the beautiful Mason county topaz.
