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Readers recall lost small towns
To some readers, they are mere dots on old maps.To others, lost towns such as Duval, Watters, McNeil, Dessau, Fromme, Merrilltown and Abercrombie — long since swallowed up by Austin sprawl — live in family memory.Numerous readers responded to our story about Duval, a once-vital farming community located near Big ...
The mystery of the Bargsley family plot
This mystery begins in a graveyard. Amid a grove of junipers in a Southwest Austin park sits a family plot guarded by a high mesh fence. Four legible stones stand among the rubble. Three of the same family design — decorated with bas-relief garlands — face the trail. “Father: John ...
Rebecca Rather keeps the pastries and adds sophisticated down-home food to new venture, The Pink Pig
Have you ever seen those wooden nesting dolls in which each successive doll is painted more elaborately than the one inside? Life is like that. We learn from our experiences and move forward, adding layers of creativity and wisdom, and hopefully take full advantage of new and wonderful opportunities.Such is ...
Lives of Texas women chronicled in student projects for Bullock museum
On a gravel road in the tiny Texas town of Voss, about an hour’s drive from San Angelo, Cynthia Gurrola spotted the warning sign too late. She and Kristen Perez, another student at St. Edward’s University, were on their way to interview and photograph rancher Jane Padgitt for a school ...
Looking for the lost town of Duval
Remnants of Austin’s rural past pop up everywhere. Walkers know the signs: larger than usual lots, bigger trees, structures predating all the others in the area. The most visible vestige of that past in the Duval Springs area of North Austin is Switch Willo Stables, a wooded wonderland of equestrian ...
Cooler temperatures, wetter weather bring fall colors to Central Texas
Autumn has always been my favorite season. As a child in the suburbs of Chicago, I marveled at the way leaf on limb would slowly shed its calming green coat then explode — seemingly overnight — into a fireworks display of bright yellows, brilliant reds and oranges, and deep, dark ...
7 common expenses that take travelers by surprise
You've carefully planned your vacation budget to the last cent, factoring in flights, hotels, transportation, and even three meals a day. Don't get too comfortable. There are a host of additional fees that you need to be aware of. Here are the seven biggest ones that could take you by ...
Beyond Disney: 25 places to see in Florida
GoGo: Fontainebleau, Miami Beach More groovy than ever after $1 billion renovation Since opening in 1954, the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel has been featured in several movies, television shows and songs and has hosted Rat Packers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and just about every other cool celeb of the ’60s. ...
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