Gillespie Life
September 7, 2016
Unusual town names are proof that frontier Texans were not short on humor and imagination. A few of the more interesting place names are Gunsight (Stephens County), Lick Skillet (Fayette County), Topsey (Coryell County) and Ding Dong (Bell County). Blowout, 15 miles northwest of Johnson City in Blan...
Gillespie Life
August 31, 2016
A new queen and fair duchesess were chosen on Friday night during the Gillespie County Fair. Morgan Granville was named queen. Ashley Hahn, JeNay Settles and Gladys Tamayo were named duchesess.
Gillespie Life
August 31, 2016
Our family recently decided to “get away from it all” with a trip to California, but we also found a connection to our hometown hero. We traveled to t...
Gillespie Life
August 31, 2016
Free trade has taken a lot of hits this campaign season. Candidates from both parties have argued that this core tenet of capitalism should be complet...
Gillespie Life
August 31, 2016
President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson along with their daughters, Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, developed professional and close personal fr...
Gillespie Life
August 24, 2016
This summer my husband, Dwight and I, along with our son, daughter-in-law and grandsons who live overseas had the privilege of visiting Margraten Ceme...
Gillespie Life
August 24, 2016
A new Gillespie County Fair Queen and her court will be crowned on Friday night as part of the 128th Gillespie County Fair. Nine girls are vying for t...
