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What a sight! Y.O. wranglers drive a Longhorn herd into Bandera, kicking off the Cowboy Capital Parade Saturday morning, August 30. Photo courtesy Celebrate Bandera.
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abor Day weekend, Bandera turns back the clock to the wild West days of old—back to cattle drives, rodeo skills, and Native American Indians—along with a grand celebration of Bandera’s 162nd birthday—during Celebrate Bandera August 29-31. Bandera was one of the major staging areas for thousands of herds—totaling more than six million head of longhorn cattle—driven in massive cattle drives up the Great Western Trail to markets in Kansas and Nebraska during the late 1800s. At Mansfield Park Friday night, August 29, bring the kids for a chance to participate in the Hoof ‘n’ Foot Horseless Ranch Rodeo. This fun event for the whole family includes cowboy skills and creative team work to boot. You might even get to dress up a goat! Celebrate Bandera proudly presents the Circle of Life Inter-tribal Powwow which includes Native American dancers from all over the U.S. Gates open Friday evening, admission is free. The Powwow continues through Sunday. Events include dance competitions; performances by internationally known Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec; and special Hand and Drum and flute demonstrations. Native American artisans will sell their wares and Indian fry bread will be abundant. Saturday morning, head out to Mansfield Park for some really fast action by the Cowboy Capital Mounted Shooters, as they ride in high-speed horse competitions. Following, the State of Texas will pay homage to Bandera with dedication of a Historical Marker explaining the town’s position as the “gathering place” for the Great Western Trail. Around 9 am, a cowboy breakfast of biscuits and gravy will be served, and a “John Wayne” toss your hat on a weather vane competition will be held because… well, just because that’s the kind of thing a cowboy would do. Winner of the hat toss will receive a 40
X Cowboy Hat donated by The Rockin C Western Wear of Bandera and American Hat Company. About 9:30 am, grab a breakfast taco at Lowe’s Market parking lot, where the excitement begins at Cow Patty Bingo, with great prizes and cash to boot, determined by the proper drop of a cow patty. Folks then gather for the Longhorn Cattle Drive up Main Street, followed by the Cowboy Capital of the World Parade, with more cowboys and horses than you can imagine. Afterwards, watch the Bandera Cattle Company Saturday as they present gunfights at Heritage Plaza, strolling Cowboy singers, a roper or two and gentle horses for petting and Longhorn steers ready to pose for a photo with you. Visit the arts and crafts booths on the Courthouse lawn, try your hand at chicken ropin’ or enter the preliminaries for the cow patty toss. Saturday night at Mansfield Park, it’s the “Hottest Eight Seconds of the Year” at the National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge. Enjoy action galore with performances by World Champion Trick Roper Keven Fitzpatrick, World Champion Gun Twirler Pistol Packin’ Paula, and Native American Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec. Late Saturday evening you can take in great country swing in the “Kings of Western Swing” concert. Sunday morning, gather at the Medina River in City Park for a cowboy breakfast offered up by the Western Heritage Cowboy Church, followed by preaching and cowboy gospel music. There will also be gospel music at the Courthouse, the Arts and Craft Show and a lot more of the Bandera Cattle Company. Don’t forget the Circle of Life Powwow and finals of the National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge with the added excitement of the South Texas Bull Fighting Tour. There’s plenty to celebrate this Labor Day weekend in Bandera! FYI • Celebrate Bandera is all about Cowboys and Indians – come live it with us. For complete event schedules and ticket information, visit the web site at www.celebratebandera.com or call 830-796-4447.
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Entire contents copyright © 2014 by TD Austin Lane, Inc. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced in any fashion without the written consent of the publisher. • The Hill Country Sun is published monthly. For advertising rates or information, call Julie Harrington at 512-484-9716 (email julie@hillcountrysun.com). Credit cards accepted. • Circulation: 22,000. Distributed monthly to more than 450 popular Hill Country locations (see list of towns on front cover) and home delivered to all 5,276 Wimberley homes and 8,663 Dripping Springs homes by the US Postal Service. • Cover It’s a weekend of Wild West fun for the family Labor Day Weekend, August 29-31 — at Celebrate Bandera (See story, page 2). Don’t miss the Circle of Life Pow Wow, the National Professional Rodeo Bullrider’s Challenge, live action performances by the Cowboy Capital Mounted Shooters, a herd of Longhorn cattle driven right down Bandera’s Main Street and much more. Photos courtesy Celebrate Bandera. • Deadline for calendar events is the 15th of each month. Email events/press releases to melissa@hillcountrysun.com.
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imberley Cafe is situated conveniently near a variety of shops, art galleries, historical sites and the famed Blue Hole, one of the most beautiful natural swimming areas in Texas. Robin McCullough, owner and manager of the popular cafe, says “It’s a gathering place, somewhat centered in the heart of the town, where people can drop by for coffee and breakfast and conversation.” There’s no doubt about it – Wimberley Cafe is where the locals go. A group of local women meets there every Thursday to play mahjong. It’s the kind of place where some regular patrons drop in a couple of times a day and can order “the usual” and the server will know what to bring. The cafe seats more than 100 people, including the additional outside covered dining area, which also happens to be petfriendly, so it’s not unusual to observe a well-behaved dog enjoying the day out with his family. Wimberley Cafe stands on the historically significant site of one of the earliest buildings in the town, the Ranch House Cafe, an architectural delight that was constructed in the 1930s using more than 40 loads of colored rocks carried in from all over the state, thick polished cypress and cedar, and hand-whittled mesquite.
Go ahead, enjoy some coconut cream pie at Wimberley Cafe. Photo courtesy Wimberley Cafe. The first Wimberley Market Days were held right there on the square, in what is now the parking lot for the cafe and surrounding shops, where people sold everything from pickles and jellies to fresh vegetables, pottery, and quilts from their pickup trucks. The original Ranch House Cafe burned down in the 1960s. Rebuilt in 1967, although without the massive amounts of wood and rock, it was once more the hub of the action in town, serving as a grocery store through the 1970s, then an ice cream parlor and real estate office, and again as a cafe. Mac and Robin McCullough moved to Wimberley in 2003, with no particular plans to open a business much less a resSee WIMBERLEY CAFE, page 5
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Robin and Mac McCullough welcome you to the crowd-pleasing Wimberley Cafe, located right on the Wimberley Square. Photo by Melissa Maxwell Ball. taurant, but the little cafe on the square was for sale and Robin soon found herself immersed in the restaurant business. “I remember thinking at the time that this is a lot like that little small-town cafe where my Dad liked to go for breakfast and coffee,” Robin says. The food at Wimberley Cafe isn’t gourmet – no arugula or smoked salmon and nary a truffle in sight – but that’s just fine with those who eat there. The food is traditional southern comfort food along with a few Tex-Mex favorites like quesadillas, migas and taco salad. Their version of tortilla soup is delicious, slightly creamier than many recipes, basically a chicken soup spiced up with jalapeno pepper and topped with strips of crispy tortilla. Customers consistently praise the chicken fried steak that’s served Texas style with peppered milk gravy. “We use the best ingredients, some family recipes, and from time to time we’ll add new items to vary the menu selection,” says Robin. But it’s the tried and true down-home cooking that provides the standards – burgers and fries, soups and sandwiches – that keep the patrons happy and coming back for more. Plain or toasted pimento cheese
sandwiches and Frito pie are pleasant reminders of what were once essential diner fare. However, dieters or anyone concerned about cholesterol need not despair. There’s more to the menu than gravy and biscuits and chili cheeseburgers. Healthy, low fat choices include Rio Chicken either as a sandwich or a salad, with grilled marinated chicken, black beans and corn relish; a hot veggie sandwich; and a “Reubenesque” sandwich that substitutes a garden burger patty for the traditional corned beef, but keeps the delicious distinctive taste of the original with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and thousand island dressing on grilled rye bread. “Our food is good,” says Robin, “ but it’s the people – the customers and the staff – that make the cafe special. My sister-in-law and son are out there greeting people. It’s a good vibe.” FYI • Wimberley Cafe is located at 101 Wimberley Square. Hours are Sunday through Thursday, 7 am to 5 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 7 am to 8:30 pm. Plan to arrive early or take a number on Market Days (first Saturday of the month March through September) and weekends, especially Sundays when breakfast is served until 1 pm, bringing in larger crowds. For information, call 512-8473333 or visit the web site at www.wimberleycafe.com.
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nce, a long time ago, as a young man, I lay down in the shallow waters of the Blanco River near the Devil’s Backbone. You may know the place as the Boy Scout camp (ed. note: El Rancho Cima, near Wimberley,). As a young scout leader with 25 younger charges, things could get pretty hectic. I didn’t live in the Hill Country then; my troop was out of a crowded Houston suburb. The water was shallow, just past my ears. As I looked up at the incredibly blue Texas sky, the ripples of the water across ancient rocks sang to me. If was as if I could hear the song of centuries. It was so perfect I didn’t want to get up. That moment in time has stuck with me for 40 years, and only recently made it into one of my poems. I still haven’t done it justice. You can read “Devil’s Backbone” on page 7. I think we all have those moments in time. What a shame it is that we often do not find some way to capture them. I’ve found poetry is a great way to capture
those sensory “snapshots.” Once captured, they can be remembered, savored and shared. So, that is the purpose of this column. I hope you will participate with me in sharing your favorite Hill Country memories, observations and the moments frozen in your mind. I want to encourage you to write them down. Poetry is a wonderful medium to use for that purpose. There are many ways to write a poem – none of them wrong. Poems can rhyme or not rhyme, have a rhythm or none at all. What a poem does need is emotion or imagery of some sort. It must stimulate some sensory reaction from the reader. Just as an artist draws a picture with oils or ink, poets draw word pictures. If you can do that cleverly, and clearly enough, you will have created and shared something special that formerly was yours alone. Our subject this month is the unique beauty of this wonderful Hill Country See POETRY, page 7
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Devil’s Backbone by Ernie Lee
Deep in the shadowed canyons of the Devil’s Backbone heights The haunted hills reverberate with a thousand years of pain Where Comanche ruled these steep, stepped halls. Beneath the vast and starry nights, Coyote calls echoed from rock faced walls, when the moon would rise again. The full faced moon can tinge the pearly rock with a creamy shade of light. The turkey gobbles for his mate, and bats swoop and swirl around. The antlered bucks in velvet prongs rear up in practice for the fight. And the wind sings songs the whole night long; exulting in the sound. Sit with me on a morning ledge and watch the summer storms roll by. The dry earth seems to yearn to touch the healing bliss of rain. With a forked tongue the lightning leaps to cliffs from darkened sky.
The rain rolls down to hueco seeps, and the desert blooms again. Lie in the crystal sparkling stream, with water up to your ears. Hear the rippled history of the stone and tales of ancient men. The song of the Blanco River passed down through all the years. You can lie in the river and shiver when the air is a hundred and ten. The Whippoorwills in crevassed hills sing songs of countless woes That denies the beauty of the place, and makes the stone a liar. The fireflies glow on the old Blanco down where the wild rice grows And the sotol grow fifteen feet tall, and the agave even higher. Despite the evil name, and the fractured rock, and the ages of toil and pain, You can stand upon a lofty ledge, and feel the winds of history. There is a beauty in the place that makes you want to come again And feel the breath upon your face, and marvel in the mystery.
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er “vaults” onto a thick pad on the horse’s back, which has a padded handle attached to the girth (“surcingle”) that the vaulter can grip while performing gymnastic feats. Some riders come to September Song Stables for recreational vaulting classes, solely to improve their riding “seat” and balance. Melanie recalls a group of women in their fifties who came and, after a little time practicing on the vaulting barrels, were able to stand up and balance on a moving horse! Vaulting is an ancient sport, developed to help Greek and Roman soldiers learn to balance on horseback for battle. Apparatus like the pommel horse, balance beams and parallel bars (today’s gymnastic equipment) were developed to train cavalry soldiers to ride with more balance and in harmony with the horse, Melanie reports with interest. A fairly new sport in the US, vaulting came to the US from Europe in the 1950s and 60s, and took hold mainly in California and on the West Coast. Today it is rapidly gaining popularity nationwide, though in Texas, the land of barrel racing and steer roping, there are still only a handful of vaulting clubs and competitions. Lone Star Vaulters’ trainer, Rosie Brown, who grew up vaulting in California and has been training vaulters most of her adult life, was surprised to find so little of the sport happening in Texas when she moved here in 2004. Lone Star Vaulters is out to change that. They perform vaulting demonstrations at large rodeos in Austin, San Antonio, and the Ft. Worth Stockyards to bring attention and new converts to their sport. This August, Gabe Aniello and Alex Schaubhut from September Song See VAULTERS, page 9
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as. wgw.com, 512-213-2110. FIRST TUESDAYS BANDERA: Cowboy Capital Opry. Silver Sage Corral Senior Center. 830-796-4969. THIRD TUESDAYS NEW BRAUNFELS: Country Music Show at the Knights of Columbus. 830629-4547. LEANDER: Low Cost Pet Spay, Neuter and Vaccination. 512-260-3602, ext. 101. EVERY WEDNESDAY DRIPPING SPRINGS: Farmers Market. 3 pm to 7 pm at the Highway 290 and Ranch Road 12. March to December, rain or shine. www.cityofdrippingsprings.com. WIMBERLEY: Farmers’ Market. Fresh produce, fresh breads, much more at the Senior Citizen’s Activity Center on Ranch Road 12. 512-264-1637. THIRD WEDNESDAYS DRIPPING SPRINGS: Cook Off Club meets at 6:30 pm in the VFW Hall. ryoncrew@yahoo.com. FOURTH WEDNESDAYS WIMBERLEY: Hill Country Neighbors. 10:30 am at the Wimberley Community Center. 512-847-2849. EVERY THURSDAY DRIPPING SPRINGS: Coffee House with Light Dinners, Decadent Desserts and Open Mic. 6 pm to 9 pm. Thyme and Dough. 512-894-0001. DRIPPING SPRINGS: Thursdays with Doug Moreland and the Flying Armadillos at Mercer Street Dance Hall. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com.
WIMBERLEY: Cafe’ Susanna. Serving lunch to the community from 11 am to 1 pm in the Fellowship Hall of Wimberley United Methodist Church, located at Ranch Road and County Road 1492. Good ole’ church cookin’ just like your grandma made. Entree’, two sides, bread/crackers, ice tea, and myriad of decadent desserts for only $9. Good food and fellowship. www.
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FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAY CANYON LAKE: Noon Lions meet at Canyon Lake Golf Club. 830-899-4406. THIRD THURSDAY WIMBERLEY: Susanna’s Kitchen Coffeehouse presents some of the best in Central Texas’ musical talent. Concerts held at Wimberley United Methodist Church, Corner Ranch Road 12 and County Road 1492. Doors open by 7 pm, concert at 7:30 pm. Free child care; tamales, pizza, pie, coffee, soft drinks available. Tickets at door. For listing of performers, visit the web site at www. wimberleyumc.com. EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY WIMBERLEY: Live Music at Linda’s Fine Foods. Delicious food, beautiful music at 500 Farm Market 2325. 512847-5464. www.facebook.com/LindasFineFoods. EVERY FRIDAY BLANCO: Tasting Room Open and Brewery Tours at Real Ale Brewing Company. www.realalebrewing.com. GRUENE: Friday Afternoon Club at Gruene Hall. Broadcast live KNBT-92.1 FM Radio. 4 pm to 7 pm. 830-629-5077. WIMBERLEY: Bingo. VFW Hall on Jacobs Well Road. 512-847-6441. WIMBERLEY: Preschool Story Time at the Wimberley Village Library. Bring your little ones at 10:30 am. 512-8472188, www.wimberleylibrary.org. WIMBERLEY: Celebrate Recovery. In the First Baptist Church Youth Building. 7 pm to 9 pm, with pizza at 6:30 pm. 512-847-9035. SECOND FRIDAY CASTROVILLE: Friday Night Fever. Cars, trucks, bikes, food, shopping. 6 pm to 10 pm. Lundquist Automotive. www.castroville.com, 830-931-2479. WIMBERLEY: Wimberley Area Parkinsons Association Meeting. Chapel of The Hills Church, 11 am. 512-847-7953. FOURTH FRIDAY BANDERA: Fourth Friday Jam. At the Silver Sage Corral starting at 6:30 pm. Call 830-796-4969 for information. EVERY FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FREDERICKSBURG: Rockbox Theater. Variety, music, and rock ‘n roll show, great family fun. 866-349-6688. EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WIMBERLEY: Live Music. Linda’s Fine Foods. www.lindaallencatering.com. EVERY SATURDAY AUSTIN: Austin Farmers Market. Republic Square. 512-236-0074. AUSTIN: Sunset Valley Farmers Market. Barton Creek Mall. 512-280-1976. BANDERA: Flying L Ranch Chuck Wagon Dinner. Enjoy barbecue, wagon rides, roping lessons, hat and pistol branding, archery, old fashioned photos, a cowboy stage show, gunslingers, line dancing and entertainment. www. flyingl.com, 800-292-5134. COMFORT: Comfort Area Farmer’s Market. 8 am to 1 pm. Comfort Park on Highway 27.
COMFORT: Wine Tastings at High’s Café. 4 pm to 7 pm. www.highscafeandstore.com. DRIPPING SPRINGS: Texas Music and Wine. www.solaroestate.com. FISCHER: Jackson Open Air Market. Local artists and farmers, food, fun and entertainment. 9 am to 5 pm. 6341 Farm Market 32. 830-935-2781. NEW BRAUNFELS: Canyon Trail Chuckwagon Supper and Cowboy Music Show. 830-626-8200, 888-408-7245. WIMBERLEY: Tour Jacob’s Well. Hear stories about floods, divers, experience beauty of spring that started town. 10 am. www.jacobswellspring.org. WIMBERLEY: Arnosky Family Farms Market. Fresh flowers, specialty cheeses, vegetables, more. Ranch Road 2325 and Highway 165. 830-833-5428. FIRST SATURDAY BANDERA: Market Days. Courthouse Square. 830-796-4447. BANDERA: First Saturday Book Sale. Public Library. 830-796-4213. DRIFTWOOD: Driftwood Community Club meets to enhance community spirit of Driftwood. Dinner, fun at 7 pm. www.driftwoodtx.org 512-829-5101 DRIPPING SPRINGS: Low Cost Pet Vaccinations. At Tractor Supply on Highway 290. 512-858-7229. WIMBERLEY: Market Days. (March through December). Everything you can’t live without at Lions Field. 475plus booths, free admission. 7 am to 4 pm. www.shopmarketdays.com. FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAY WIMBERLEY: Toastmasters Public Speaking and Leadership Club. 10:30 am. Visitor’s Center. 512-913-4804. SECOND SATURDAY CASTROVILLE: Market Trail Days. Houston Square. 830-539-2316. THIRD SATURDAY MARBLE FALLS: Bluegrass, Country and Western, and Gospel. 6 pm to 10 pm. Boys and Girls Club. 830-898-1784. EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ROUND MOUNTAIN: Tours at Westcave Preserve. www.westcave.org. SECOND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AUSTIN: Tours of Bright Leaf Natural Area. www.brightleaf.org. FOURTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Johnson City: Market Days. Food, artisans, vendors and more. 830-8687684, JohnsonCityTexasChamber.com. AUGUST 1 GRUENE: Radney Foster. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. AUGUST 1-2 DRIPPING SPRINGS: Texas Senior Pro Rodeo. Exciting competition at Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. www.tspra.com, 512-398-5209. KERRVILLE: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Playhouse 2000. www.caillouxtheater.com, 830896-9393. AUGUST 1-3 AUSTIN: The World at War, 1914-1918.
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Learn about the history of the war through the archives of men and women who witnessed watershed events which ushered in the world as we know it. Harry Ransom Center. www.hrc. utexas.edu. AUGUST 1-9 WIMBERLEY: Shakespeare Under the Stars presents “Richard III.” EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens. www.emilyann. org, 512-847-6969. AUGUST 1-16 INGRAM: “Red, White and Tuna.” Enjoy fireworks and fun in the land where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The Point Theatre, 120 Point Theatre Road. www.hcaf.com, 830-367-5121. AUGUST 1-17 AUSTIN: Between Mountains and Sea: Arts of the Ancient Andes. Exhibit features selection of exceptional objects from some of the most complex coastal societies of the Ancient Andes. Includes woven textiles, modeled ceramic bottles, painted vessels and ceramic effigies that trace the artistic development of the ancient Paracas, Nasca, Wari, Moche, Chancay and Chimu cultures. Blanton Museum of Art. www.blantonmuseum.org. AUGUST 1-24 KERRVILLE: Exhibits at the Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. Includes three gal lery exhibitions: Images, Olva and Glen Hollowell, and Photography. Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. www.kacckerrville.com, 830-895-2911. AUGUST 1 - SEPTEMBER 21 AUSTIN: In the Company of Cats and
Dogs. Exhibit explores mankind’s enduring fascination with dogs and what our relationships with them say about us. Blanton Museum of Art. www.blanton museum.org AUGUST 1 - OCTOBER 5 AUSTIN: Backwards in High Heels: Getting Women Elected, 1842-1990. Austin History Center. www.austinhistorycenter.org, 512-974-7480. AUGUST 1 - DECEMBER 7 SAN MARCOS: Mary Ellen Mark: Man and Beast—Photographs from Mexico and India. Exhibit of more than 100 images by renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark includes many that explore fundamental working relationships between people and animals in two countries half a world apart. The Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library at Texas State University. www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu, 512-245-2313. SAN MARCOS: Coming to Light: New Acquisitions. Debut of works by 42 internationally acclaimed and emerging photogra phers, including Kate Breakey, Keith Carter, Lee Friedlander, Graciela Iturbide, Richard Misrach, Geoff Winningham and Mariana Yampolsky. Wittliff Collections. Texas State University. www. thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu. AUGUST 2 BANDERA: Market Day. Local arts and crafts on the Courthouse Square, 500 Main Street. www.banderatexasbusiness.com/marketdays.htm. CONCAN: Bellamy Brothers. Live music at House Pasture Cattle Company. www.housepasture.com.
AUGUST 2 DRIPPING SPRINGS: Randy Rogers Band. Live music at Nutty Brown Cafe. www.nuttybrown.com. AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 23 CEDAR PARK: Austin Steam Train Saturday Evening Express. Ride to Bertram and enjoy sights and sounds of the railroad, crossing highways, spanning the South San Gabriel River on wooden trestle bridge and rolling through pasture land. Cedar Park Depot. www.austinsteamtrain.org, 512-477-8468. AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 BANDERA: Cowboys on Main. Enjoy a Western display in front of the Bandera County Courthouse and strolling entertainers. Bandera Cattle Company performs historical gunfights at noon and 2 pm. Main Street. www.banderacowboycapital.com, 830-796-3045. BANDERA: Flying L Ranch Chuck Wagon Dinner. Barbecue, wagon rides, roping lessons, hat and pistol branding, archery, old-fashioned photos, a cowboy stage show, gunslingers, line dancing and entertainment. Dinner served 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Flying L Ranch, www.flyingl.com, 800-292-5134. AUGUST 5 BANDERA: Cowboy Capital Opry. Grand Old Opry-style show features Harriet and Gerry Payne and other artists. 7 pm at the Silver Sage Corral. www. silversagecorral.org, 830-796-4969. AUGUST 5, 12, 19 GRUENE: Swing Dance Lessons and Two Tons of Steel in Concert. Learn simple, fun East Coast Swing steps in a one-hour class held before Two Ton Tuesday concert. Class starts at 6 pm; band starts at 8:30 pm. Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com, 830-606-1281. AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 12 INGRAM: Moveable Feat: The Artist Journey. Judged selection of works at Hill Country Arts Foundation, 120 Point Theatre Road. www.hcaf.com, 830-367-5121. AUGUST 7 SAN MARCOS: Summer in the Park presents Terri Hendrix Band with Lloyd Maines. Free live music on the banks of the San Marcos River. Begins at 7:30 pm. San Marcos Plaza Park, 206 N. C. M. Allen Parkway. www.smpaa.com. AUGUST 8 CASTROVILLE: Friday Night Fever. See a variety of antique and modern cars and trucks on display, and enjoy music, food and shopping. www.castroville.com, 830-931-2479. CONCAN: Spazmatics. Live music at House Pasture Cattle Company. www. housepasture.com. GRUENE: Joe King Carrasco. Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. AUGUST 8-9 JUNCTION: Summer Classic Rodeo and Dance. Enjoy horse races, bull riding, nightly dances and live entertainment. Hill Country Fair Association Fair Grounds. www.junctiontexas.com.
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AUGUST 8-10 MARBLE FALLS: LakeFest Drag Boat Races. More than 100 boats race at speeds up to 250 mph on a liquid quarter mile on Lake Marble Falls. Lakeside Park, 307 Buena Vista. www. marblefallslakefest.com, 830-693-2815 or 830-693-4449. NEW BRAUNFELS: The Peddler Show. Items for sale from talented designers, artisans, creators and craftspeople from across the country. New Braunfels Civic Center. innewbraunfels.com. AUGUST 9 BOERNE: Moondance Concert Series. Enjoy live music under the stars and oak trees at Cibolo Nature Center, 140 City Park Road. www.cibolo.org, 830249-4616. BOERNE: Second Saturday Art and Wine. Enjoy a glass of wine and stroll through the art galleries. 4 pm to 8 pm. www.secondsaturdayartandwine.com CONCAN: Frio River Song Festival. Adam Carroll and Chris Carroll, Jon Dee Graham, Hal Ketchum, Kelly Mickwee, Owen Temple, more at House Pasture. www.housepasture.com. GRUENE: The Wheeler Brothers. Live music at Gruene Hall. www. gruenehall.com. JUNCTION: Martin Memorial Car Show. Gather under the shade trees and see old, unique and customized vehicles. Kimble County Courthouse. 830634-2698, 830-285-7371. AUGUST 9-10 BOERNE: Market Days. Artists, crafters and vendors, plus homegrown Texas musicians on Main Plaza. www.boernemarketdays.com, 210-844-8193.
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AUGUST 9-10, 16-17 STONEWALL: Grape Stomp at Pedernales Cellars. Celebrate the grape harvest by stomping grapes, listening to live music and enjoying delicious, award-winning wines. 2916 Upper Albert Road. www.pedernalescellars.com, 830-644-2037. AUGUST 9-10, 23-24 FREDERICKSBURG: Pari-Mutuel Racing. Features quarter horse and thoroughbred contests, special races and trials for the 2014 Fair Futurity. Gillespie County Fairgrounds. www.gillespiefair.com, 830-997-2359. AUGUST 10 BANDERA: Frontier Times Museum Cowboy Camp. Listen to traditional cowboy music or bring your own guitar and join in the song circle. Hours are 1 pm to 4 pm at the Frontier Times Museum. www.frontiertimesmuseum.org, 830-796-3864. AUGUST 14 SAN MARCOS: Summer in the Park presents Two Tons of Steel. Free live music on the banks of the San Marcos River. Begins at 7:30 pm. San Marcos Plaza Park, 206 N. C. M. Allen Parkway. www.smpaa.com. GRUENE: Chris Isaak. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. AUGUST 14-16 JOHNSON CITY: Blanco County Fair and Rodeo. 84th annual event includes rodeo, a carnival, pageants on Friday, parade at 10 am Saturday, live music and dancing, a washer-pitching tournament and food. Blanco County Fairgrounds, 619 North U.S. 281 North. www.bcfra.org.
AUGUST 15-17 DRIFTWOOD: Hill Country Rally for Kids. Live music, bike and car runs, barbecue cook off, vendors, food, kids’ activities, raffle, silent auction and more to benefit area youth organizations. Camp Ben McCulloch. www. hcrally.com. FREDERICKSBURG: Trade Days. Shop more than 350 vendors in six barns and acres of antiques and collectibles, or enjoy the biergarten with live music. Seven miles east of town off U.S. Highway 290, at 355 Sunday Farms Lane. www.fbgtradedays.com, 830-990-4900 or 210-846-4094. AUGUST 16 GRUENE: The Marshall Tucker Band. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. KERRVILLE: Guadalupe River Parade and Festival. Fun includes a parade, Celtic games, food, music, raffle and vendors. Begins at noon and runs until dark. Flat Rock Park, 3840 Riverside Drive. www.hometownherocard.com, 830-377-9838. AUGUST 16-17 GRUENE: Old Gruene Market Days. Nearly 100 vendors offer uniquely crafted items and packaged Texas foods. 10 am to 5 pm. Gruene Historic District, 1724 Hunter Road. www. gruenemarketdays.com, 830-832-1721. JOHNSON CITY: Texas Hills Vineyards Grape Stomp. 11 am to 5 pm Saturday and 1 pm to 4 pm Sunday. www. texashillsvineyard. com, 830-868-2321. AUGUST 21 GRUENE: Come and Taste It. Eleven wineries and their winemakers showcased on the patio and garden of a popular tasting room. Complimentary tastings offered of the craft beer and three wines. 5 pm to 9 pm at Grapevine Texas Wine Bar, 1612 Hunter Road. www. grapevineingruene.com, 830-606-0093. KERRVILLE: Native Healing Garden Presentation. Join gardeners as they tend medicinal herbs, learn healing properties, listen to a presentation on spotlighted herbs. Bring gloves, a trowel and a healthy potluck dish to share. Donations fund garden. 11:30 am to 1 pm. Riverside Nature Center. www.riversidenaturecenter.org, 830-257-4837. AUGUST 21-24 FREDERICKSBURG: Gillespie County Fair. Displays of agricultural, livestock and home skills, along with horse races, concerts, dances, carnival and midway. Parade 10 am Friday. Gillespie County Fairgrounds. www.gillespiefair.com. AUGUST 22-23 GRUENE: Hayes Carll. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. AUGUST 23-24, 30-31 STONEWALL: Grape Stomp. At the end of the harvest, barrels are cut in half and filled with grapes to stomp. Don’t miss the Lucy and the Italian Women Costume Contest at 3 pm August 31, with contestants judged on dress, ability and enthusiasm. Becker Vineyards. www.beckervineyards.com.
Hill country calendar AUGUST 24 CASTROVILLE: St. Louis Day Celebration. Food, fun and entertainment along banks of Medina River. Koenig Park. www.saintlouisday.com, 830-931-2826. FREDERICKSBURG: Concert in the Park. Adelsverein Halle at the Marktplatz. 830-997-8515. AUGUST 27 STONEWALL: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 106th Birthday Celebration. 10 am wreath-laying ceremony at his gravesite, free tours of the Texas White House. LBJ Ranch National Historic Park. www.nps.gov/lyjo/planyourvisit/events.htm, 830-868-7128 ext. 222. AUGUST 28-31 BOERNE: Kendall County Fair. Fun filled weekend includes carnival, queen’s contest, parade, more. Kendall County Fairgrounds, 1307 River Road. www.kcfa.org, 830-249-2839. AUGUST 28- SEPTEMBER 28 KERRVILLE: Quilts and Other Art Forms. Exhibit of quilts inspired by works of art, photography. Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. www.kacckerrville.com, 830-895-2911. AUGUST 28 - OCTOBER 3 KERRVILLE: Photoquest. See photos from Hill Country Camera Club’s annual photographic competition. Kerr Arts and Cultural Center, 228 Earl Garrett Street. www.kacckerrville. com, 830-895-2911.
AUGUST 29 GRUENE: The Texas Jamm Band at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com. AUGUST 29-30 BRADY: World Championship Barbecue Goat Cook-Off. The longest-run ning goat cook-off in Texas includes an arts-and-crafts fair, washer-pitching tournament, the Goat Gallop 5K/10K Fun Run and Walk, a street dance and children’s games. Richards Park. www. bradytx.com, 888-577-3491. FREDERICKSBURG: “Today’s Treasures, Tomorrow’s Heirlooms” Quilt Show. Judged show features more than 100 quilts, old-fashioned bed turning, vendors, scissor sharpening and a tea room. www.vereinsquiltguild.com, 830-990-4140. AUGUST 29-31 BANDERA: Celebrate Bandera (See story, Page 2). Includes a Texas longhorn cattle drive and parade Saturday, arts and crafts, the Bandera Music Hall of Fame, re-enactments on the Medina River, an intertribal Pow Wow, National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge and the Kings of Western Swing concert series. Downtown. www.celebratebandera.com, 830-796-4447. DRIPPING SPRINGS: Gunner Thames Memorial Rodeo. Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. 512-665-1459. KERRVILLE: Kerrville Fall Music Festival. Songwriters, wineries, concerts,
food and camping, and songs around the campfires. Plus, Texas wines and craft beers. www.kerrvillefolkfestival. com, 830-257-3600. ROCKSPRINGS: Camp Eagle Classic Mountain Bike Fest. Includes bike races, rock climbing, kids’ races, ziplining, swimming and more. www.camp eagle.org, 830-896-6864. AUGUST 30 BOERNE: Buggy Roundup. Some of the coolest dune buggies in the nation in displays, cruises and more. Main Plaza. www.texasmanxclub.com. CEDAR PARK: Hill Country Flyer. Travel to Burnet by steam train through the Texas Hill Country, enjoy lunch and shopping before returning to Cedar Park. Departs 10 am, returns 4 pm. www.austinsteamtrain.org. CONCAN: Max Stalling. Live music at House Pasture Cattle Company. www. housepasture.com. FREDERICKSBURG: Roots Music Series. Open-air, live concert series at. the Pioneer Museum. www.pioneermuseum.net/roots-music, 830-997-8515. FREDERICKSBURG: USO-Style Hangar Dance. Live 1940s-style Big Band music with swing-dancing lessons at Hangar Hotel Pacific Showroom. www.hangarhotel.com, 830-997-9990. AUGUST 30-31 GRUENE: Charlie Robison. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com.
AUGUST 30-31 FREDERICKSBURG: Pacific Combat Living History Program. Covers World War II weaponry, cloth ing, training and tactics of U.S. and Japanese military. Programs at 10:30 am, 1 pm and 3:30 pm. National Museum of the Pacific War Combat Zone, www. pacificwarmuseum.org. AUGUST 31 TARPLEY: Homecoming Festival. Enjoy an 11 am parade, barbecue and live music until 5 pm. Downtown. www.tarpleyvfd.org, 830-796-3047. SEPTEMBER 11 WIMBERLEY: Water Crisis: Time to Get Serious. Community meeting provides opportunity to chat with experts. Tips on lawns, household water, xeriscaping, rainwater collection, more. Speakers on past, present and future water issues, followed by panel with audience questions. Free admission. 6 pm to 9:30 pm at Wimberley Community Center. www.hayscard.org. SEPTEMBER 12-14 UTOPIA: 6th Annual UTOPiAfest. Mind-blowing musical performances and breathtaking Hill Country sunsets await at gorgeous Four Sisters Ranch, the idyllic setting for this family friendly music festival. Camping, BYOB, capped audience. 25-plus acts, no overlap. Tickets and complete information at www.utopiafest.com.
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