This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for December 16, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Having a mother who is a very talented, natural musician becomes a quasi-blessing, as well as a quasi-curse. Especially if her talent is missing from your DNA. Over the years, quite a few instruments met […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Dec. 2, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. When my brother and I, accompanied by our mother, would wait in front of the Southern Pacific Railroad depot in Giddings, Texas, for the little “dinky” passenger train to pick us up for a short shopping
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Nov. 25, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Last Week I had an email conversation with my long-time friend, American playwright, Ellsworth Schave, about the great Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, and another email conversation with a drama director and theatre owner about Trip to
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Nov. 17, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Last week, my friend Paula, who now owns the homeplace in Dime Box, reported that she saw a gray fox at the edge of the woods behind her house. Although the wooded area seems to be
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Nov. 11, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, TX. About twenty or more years ago, I did dozens and dozens of pen and ink sketches of old Texas barns. After I ran out of old weathered barns to sketch in Wharton and East Bernard
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This article by Linda Dwyer (dwyer@wilcosun.com) first appeared in her column, Tastes of the Town, printed in the 7 November 2021 edition of The Sunday Sun, the weekend edition of The Williamson County Sun of Georgetown, Texas. Who are the Wends? My day trip to Lee County provided the answer. Wends is a historical name
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger appeared first in IMAGES for Oct. 28, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, TX. It seems that for most of my life I have been in search of a truly comfortable chair to relax in, the search more pressing in these later years. When I was a child in
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Oct. 21, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. “Mum” is an extraordinary word in the English language, and a very old word, going back to the medieval era. Unlike us, the British tend to call their moms “Mum” rather than “Mom.” We Americans
This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 14, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. My youngest daughter in New York said she and her husband were celebrating their wedding anniversary this week by going apple picking. A friend of mine who lives in the Hudson Valley area of New
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 7, 2021, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, TX. Considering my love of German and Czech polka music, I can’t let October pass by without writing about “Oktoberfests.” Back in the 1940’s in Dime Box, we never held an Oktoberfest, but we had mini-OKTOBERFESTS
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