Texas Treasure

The sweet smell in the air around Brenham comes not only from bluebell wildflowers in the summer, but from Blue Bell Creameries year-round.

For one hundred years a furniture store, now the building at 2125 Church Street is a landmark in Downtown Galveston!

Kirk Feldman had his first brush with the business side of entertainment when he became the de facto manager of his college band. But he had no idea that the lessons he learned while trying to negotiate pay with fraternities and bar owners, coupled with his passion for performing, were paving the way for a successful career in theater.

The lone survivor in what was once a genteel residential neighborhood in Orange, TX, the W.H. Stark house (www.whstarkhouse.org), with its distinctive turret, was built in 1894 for philanthropists William Henry (W.H.) and Miriam Lutcher Stark.

Among the many coastal landmarks to survive Hurricane Ike is Galveston’s Bishop’s Palace. Having sustained only minimal damage, the island’s oldest and arguably most beloved building was open again for tours by late October.

Jim Cullum, Jr., doesn’t understand why some people bemoan winter’s shorter days. From the perspective of the acclaimed cornetist, night couldn’t come soon enough. “I believe that the beautiful things in life happen after dark. The candlelight, beautiful music, a glass of wine, the romance, a great dinner, all of those things that I would rather do,” he says.

“You enter the door and immediately leave space and time, visually, in every which way, because you kind of enter into another world,” says Father Bob Knippinberg, pastor of SS Cyril and Methodious Catholic Church, of Shiner, Texas.