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Sweet Potato Custard Pie
Gillespie Life, Taste
Sweet Potato Custard Pie
Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer 
May 27, 2026
ASweet Potato Pie recipe was submitted by Mrs. Ed Stein to the sixth edition of Fredericksburg’s PTA Cookbook in 1948. Seven years earlier, in 1941, Jewell Grosse Kothmann submitted her Sweet Potato Custard Pie recipe to Mason’s PTA Cookbook. Jewel’s grandfather had built Mason’s Reynolds-Seaquist H...
‘Mandalorian’ prioritizes franchise maintenance over storytelling
Gillespie Life, Movies
‘Mandalorian’ prioritizes franchise maintenance over storytelling
Cinematic Considerations By Matt Ward 
May 27, 2026
Franchises and universes have been around for a while in pop culture, though integrating television and film together has long been a haphazard, imbalanced roller coaster of hits and misfires. George Lucas created a world far beyond the galaxies in his mind when he developed “Star Wars,” and yet wit...
Bad reviews
Community, Gillespie Life
Bad reviews
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Phil Houseal 
May 27, 2026
HOUSE Why do we derive such satisfaction from being offended? I’ve come to believe some people find their value in being perpetually, terminally upset. Like when they get only two pickles on their Super Clown Smashburger instead of the advertised three. But it is more than that. The terminally offen...
Community, Gillespie Life
Library launches reading program
May 27, 2026
Stomp! Stomp! It’s time for the Summer Reading Program! The staff at the Pioneer Memorial Library is ready for Unearth a Story. Stop by the library an...
Watch out for the ‘Slap Me Naked’ cake
Gillespie Life, Taste
Watch out for the ‘Slap Me Naked’ cake
Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer 
May 20, 2026
Acousin, Mae Durden-Nelson, the former Alora Mae Hahn of Doss, lived a life larger than I ever realized. I met her only once, yet only recently discov...
Ritchie’s ‘In the Grey’ struggles to balance action, intrigue
Gillespie Life, Movies
Ritchie’s ‘In the Grey’ struggles to balance action, intrigue
Cinematic Considerations By Matt Ward, BY MATT WARD 
May 20, 2026
Sometimes films seem like two different movies smashed together into one narrative structure. It’s almost as if filmmakers start with one idea, scrap ...
DANCE HALL NIGHT
Gillespie Life
DANCE HALL NIGHT
May 13, 2026
dips his daughter Reagan Thompson at the Dance Hall Night on Saturday, May 9.–Standard Radio-Post/ McKenna Dunworth
Gillespie Life
Blind and Low Vision Resource Group to meet May 13
May 13, 2026
The Blind and Low Vision Resource Group will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, in the Towne Park Apartments community room, 1125 S. Adams St. Guest sp...
Gillespie Life
Stone Ridge residents to meet Sunday
May 13, 2026
All resident homeowners of the Stone Ridge subdivision are invited to a meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. at St. Joseph Halle, 21...
Waldemar cornbread recipe rooted in tradition
Gillespie Life, Taste
Waldemar cornbread recipe rooted in tradition
Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer 
May 13, 2026
The Guadalupe has always been part of life in the Hill Country—beautiful, steady, and, at times, unforgiving. Last summer reminded us of that in the h...
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