Author: Wendi Wilkerson

For today’s “Spooky Place in Texas,” we’re traveling to the small East Texas town of Karnack and Lady Bird Johnson’s family home. In 1843, Milt Andrews built the plantation-style mansion two-and-a-half miles southwest of Karnak. There, he raised his daughter, Eunice, or “Oonie,” as she was called. In 1880, when Oonie was 19, a bolt of […]

Ed and Kay sure had fun visiting with Colt Buckelew and Tiffany Valentine of Colt Buckelew and The Crossroads! Catch them live Friday night at the VFW Post 6974 in Burnet for a Halloween costume dance. There will be BYOB set-ups, great door prizes, hot dogs and hamburgers and, of course, live music. For advance […]

We’re headed east for today’s “Spooky Place in Texas” to the sleepy town of Palestine. The old Memorial Hospital in Palestine appears to be little more than a dilapidated building these days, but it once was a busy medical center, where area residents sought care. The basement of the hospital, however, served a different purpose: […]

For today’s “Spooky Place in Texas,” we’re travelling to historic Llano in honor of Llano Heritage Weekend today through Sunday. And, as you gather ’round the campfire at Saturday’s chuck-wagon cook-off, you might be able to get one of the cowboys to tell you a story about the Haynie Hotel Building. Built in 1882 for […]

A big thanks to David Griffith, an organizer of Saturday’s chuck-wagon cook-off in Llano, for visiting with us this morning! Again, a reminder, because of the much-welcome rain, the cook-off has been moved to the Llano Events Center, 2200 RR 152, instead of Badu Park, and, of course, Llano Heritage Weekend will take place in […]

Kay wanted send out a special thank you to Pastor Ricky Leaphart of First Lutheran Church, 133 Apollo Drive in Burnet. For more information about the church’s Blessing of the Animals on Oct. 20 or to find out what items are needed for the Christ-Yoder Animal Shelter in Buchanan Dam, call the church office at […]

Today’s “Spooky Place in Texas” is just a few miles outside of Marble Falls: Dead Man’s Hole. Notorious in the Civil War era, the hole is believed to have been the dumping ground for up to 17 bodies, including those of pro-Union Judge John R. Scott and settler Adolf Hoppe plus several Reconstruction-era government officials. […]

We are so happy we had a chance to visit with Bill Rives, the executive director of the Marble Falls/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday morning. And don’t the seventh annual Sculpture on Main events this weekend sound fun? It all kicks off Friday with a reception at the Visitors Center, 100 Ave. G […]