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A photo of the view from the Hillside Boutique Hotel in Castroville will make your friends think you are on exotic vacation. The palm trees, tropical flowers, cabanas and a beautiful pool overlooking a panoramic valley is the perfect staycation.
Located on a hilltop on U.S. Highway 90, this hotel was once known as the Hotel Alsace but it has changed—and that’s an understatement.
The newly renovated hotel is on 13 acres owned by Joseph and Jana Winkler and Pete Markwardt.
Hillside fe ...
Goldthwaite is a tiny town on the northern edge of the Texas Hill Country. It has a population of 1,878 and yet everyone has fun here.
Why?
Well, what other city do you know of that has an albino hedgehog greeting visitors in its library?
That’s right. His name is Quillbur.
Susan Lindsey, the Jenny Trent Dew Library director, explains that her granddaughter Molly Kachal made a hedgehog out of folded paper and Molly’s friend Susan Garner saw it, said she had a real one, and then do ...
June 14 is Flag Day and June 10-16, 2018 is designated as National Flag Week.
On June 14, 1777, the flag of the United States was adopted by Resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Although not an official federal holiday, in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson officially established June 14 as Flag Day and National Flag Day was established by Congress in 1946.
Over 100 years later, the benevolence and principles of a poor Scottish-American immigrant are continued at the historic Carnegie Library of Ballinger.
After humble beginnings, Andrew Carnegie established a steel industry in the northeastern U.S. and became the wealthiest man in the world. He believed strongly in the merit system and a society where it was possible for any hard-worker to become successful.
Residents of the Texas Hill Country looking to travel someplace exotic in January can go all the way back to the Middle Ages by visiting the Kerrville Renaissance Festival on January 26-28, 2018.
The Hill Country finally has its own version of the popular immersive events attracting crowds throughout the country, thanks to Hal Robinson and April Cory of Comfort.
When visitors gaze through San Angelo’s window to the 1800’s at historic Fort Concho, they will see 40 acres filled with Christmas past and present as the revered landmark hosts its largest annual event December 1-3.
This much-anticipated weekend – Christmas at Old Fort Concho – will bring thousands of participants to San Angelo from across the country.
The occasion also coincides with year-long activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the fort’s founding in 1867 when b ...
Within the shadow of Fort McKavett State Historic Site, near the intersection of Farm-to-Market Roads 864 and 1674 in southwestern Menard county, is the small town of the same name. The settlement of Ft. McKavett was likely established by ranchers and tradesmen who not only benefited from the protection of the soldiers, but provided services and supplies to the military outpost.
Nowdays, there are few buildings in the downtown area and the post office is doubtless the hub of local activity.
Almost 100 years ago, after World War I had ended in 1918, an American woman, Moina Michael, having just re-read the poem, In Flanders Fields, which was already known around the world, pledged to wear a red poppy as a sign of remembrance. And she wrote a response to that poem entitled, We Shall Keep the Faith.
On this Day of Prayer, the Day the Bible says, “God rested,” Americans did not have time to pray, and the Japanese did not rest.
It was tragic beyond comprehension. It was a horrific shock. The U.S.S. Arizona, Oklahoma, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Tennessee: names of these states and others were on ships and lined up on an island that would become—but was not yet—a state, itself.
Rio Concho Drive winds alongside the Concho River in downtown San Angelo and just west of the Bell Street crossing bridge, a limestone monument commemorates the founding of the first mission in this part of Texas. Other markers recognize a young nun in Spain, said to have taught the native Indian tribes, resulting in the founding of the mission.
In 1632, Franciscan priests traveled here from ...
